Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Butte Daily Bulletin editorial item published September 16, 1919, reported that a mob took a Mexican man from a Colorado jail and lynched him. He was the second of two Mexican men said to have been taken from a Colorado jail and lynched. The item names neither the man, the jail, the county nor the date of the killing, and it does not say whether jail staff resisted the mob, gave up the keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Butte Daily Bulletin (reporters).