Name not reported
A Hispanic or Latino man was one of two men held in a house at Kelly, in Socorro County, New Mexico, in July 1889. A Rock Island Daily Argus report said that on Sunday night, July 21, a gang of masked men took him from the guard, hanged him from a tree and shot him. A Kansas City Times account, citing an Albuquerque dispatch, said instead that a party of cowboys overpowered the guard and hanged both prisoners. The accounts differ on who carried out the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Kansas City Times report citing an Albuquerque dispatch says a party of cowboys overpowered the guard and hanged him, while another account says masked men took him from the guard, hanged him from a tree and shot him.
Reported by: Kansas City Times, citing an Albuquerque dispatch (reporters); Newspaper account of the Kelly, New Mexico lynching (reporters).