Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Several people held in the jail at Albuquerque were taken from the jail on the night before February 1, 1881, and hanged, according to a brief dispatch datelined Galveston and printed in the Memphis Daily Appeal. The dispatch reports the killings as a single event and gives no further detail about the people who died. Their deaths were carried out by people who came to the jail and took them from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.