Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Mexican people were taken from a jail at Pueblo by a mob on September 11, 1919, and hanged, according to a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People field secretary's statement on lynchings in the United States, as reported in the Brattleboro Daily Reformer on December 13, 1919. Their names and ages are not given. The statement does not say which jail held them or how jail staff responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The NAACP field secretary says a mob hanged two Mexican people taken from a jail at Pueblo on September 11, 1919.
Reported by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People field secretary (advocates).