Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a short item in the Arizona Sentinel published February 21, 1880, several men held in the Las Vegas jail were taken out by an armed body of men. The paper reported that the men were strangled and shot to death. The men are not named in the item.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Arizona Sentinel (reporters).