Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four men held in a New Mexico jail were taken from it by a small mob, which broke in and hanged all four, according to a retrospective account published in The Morning News in 1888. It does not say whether the sheriff or jailer resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.