Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two people, one described in the report as Italian and one as Mexican, were being held in a New Mexico jail when citizens took them out on the night of Wednesday, June 4, 1879. A mob hanged both in a public square, and according to a Santa Fe dispatch printed in the Public Ledger, the bodies were still hanging the next morning. Neither person is named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Santa Fe newspaper dispatch reports that citizens took two people from a jail and hanged them in a public square.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch (Santa Fe correspondence) (reporters).