Name not reported

A person held in the Santa Fe jail was taken from it by a mob and hanged in the public square on June 4, 1879, alongside another man taken from the same jail, according to a Santa Fe dispatch published in the Public Ledger on June 9, 1879. The dispatch describes this person as Mexican and says the bodies were still hanging the next morning. The person is not named in the account. The dispatch does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob or handed the person over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Santa Fe correspondence in a newspaper dispatch (reporters).

Source

• Public Ledger, June 9, 1879, page 2 Public Ledger, June 9, 1879