Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the night of August 20, 1882, a mob of forty or fifty masked men took a man from his cell in the jail at West Los Animos, Colorado, and hanged him. A Denver news report said the men were supposed to be soldiers from nearby Fort Lyon. The report gives the hanging as the mob's work, with no account of any claim by the men themselves.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Denver dispatch reports that a mob of forty or fifty masked men took a man from the West Los Animos jail and hanged him, and says the mob was supposed to be soldiers from Fort Lyon.
Reported by: Denver dispatch (news report) (reporters).