Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In May 1893, according to a headline in the Indianapolis Journal, three men held at the jail in Las Vegas, New Mexico, were taken from it by a mob and hanged from a single tree. The available account gives no names for the men and does not say whether the jail staff or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over. The deaths were the result of a mob taking people from the custody of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched