Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is not legible in the surviving text was held in a jail in New Mexico. According to a dispatch from New Albuquerque printed in the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo on March 1, 1881, a mob of vigilantes took him from the jail and hanged him on February 25, 1881. The dispatch, which ran under a Galveston dateline, is the only account of his death the source gives.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New Albuquerque dispatch printed in the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo says a mob of vigilantes took him from the jail and hanged him.
Reported by: New Albuquerque special dispatch, as printed in the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo (reporters).