Deaths in CustodyWork in progressIn progress
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

New Mexico

According to a San Francisco Call account reprinted in The Manitowoc Pilot in August 1888, four Latino men were being held at a New Mexico jail. The account says a small party led by one man broke into the jail and took them out. It says the four men were hanged. The men are not named in the account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The San Francisco Call account, reprinted in The Manitowoc Pilot, says a mob broke open a New Mexico jail and hanged four Mexican men held there.

Reported by: San Francisco Call (reprinted in The Manitowoc Pilot) (reporters).

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