Died in custody
Name not reported
A Hispanic man was being held in a house at Kelly, in Socorro County, New Mexico, in July 1889, under the guard of its keeper. The Rock Island Daily Argus reported that on Sunday night, July 21, a gang of masked men took him from the guard, hanged him from a tree and shot him. The Kansas City Times, citing an Albuquerque dispatch, reported that a party of cowboys overpowered the guard and hanged him. The two accounts differ on who took him from the guard and how he was killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked gang took a prisoner from the guard at a house in Kelly, New Mexico, hanged him from a tree and shot him, according to a 1889 newspaper report.
Reported by: news reports.