Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A brief 1881 news item, reprinted in a 1902 column in The Butte Inter Mountain, reports that three people were taken from a jail in a New Mexico town and killed by a mob. The town name is garbled in the OCR text, so the location is uncertain. The item gives no names, ages, or sex for the three people held there. It was published in a newspaper reprint and has no further accounts from officials, the jail, or families.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief 1881 Butte Inter Mountain item, reprinted in a 1902 column, says a mob lynched three people taken from a New Mexico jail.
Reported by: Butte Inter Mountain (reporters).