Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held in the jail at Santa Fe, New Mexico, was taken out of the jail by a mob of citizens and killed. A brief telegraph report in The Weekly Elko Independent of June 15, 1879, described the killing. The same mob had also taken another person from that jail and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.