Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Victoriano, whose surname is illegible in the surviving newspaper text, was a Latino man held at a jail in New Mexico. On the morning of Friday, May 12, 1893, a crowd took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree. According to the Deming Headlight, he was one of three men hanged that morning. The paper said the crowd was made up of the town's leading citizens and acted in an orderly way.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.