Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held at the jail in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a brief item in The Hartford Herald published in February 1881. The paper gave no name for him and nothing about who he was. The item was short and did not describe how the mob got in or what the jailer or sheriff did.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.