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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 26, 1895

According to a Santa Fe Daily New Mexican account published August 26, 1895, a mob took one of four people from a jail at 2 o'clock in the morning and hanged them in the jail yard. The name of the person, the jail's location, and what happened at the jail are unclear because the page's text is damaged. Nothing in the account about this person's life or family can be recovered from the surviving text.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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