Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In June 1879, The Weekly Elko Independent reported by telegraph that a mob of citizens took one of two people held in the jail at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and killed them. The notice gives no name for the person, and no age or sex. The jail's role in the killing is recorded only as the place the person was held when the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched