Died in jail or a lockup
Victoriano Aragon
Victoriano Aragon was one of three men held in the jail at Las Lunas, New Mexico, in early May 1893. Newspaper dispatches of the time report that masked men took him and the two other men from the jail and hanged them from a tree. Jail staff and county officers are not named in the accounts as having acted in any particular way, and no investigation of the killings is reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men took Victoriano Aragon from the Las Lunas jail in New Mexico Territory and hanged him from a tree, according to 1893 newspaper dispatches that give no account of jail staff response.
Reported by: Albuquerque dispatch in The Globe-Republican (reporters); 1893 newspaper dispatch (reporters).
Sources (7)
- The Morning News, May 6, 1893, page 1
- Morning Journal And Courier, May 6, 1893, page 3
- The Wilmington Daily Republican, May 6, 1893, page 1
- Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, May 9, 1893, page 2
- Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, May 9, 1893, page 1
- People'S Voice, May 12, 1893, page 6
- The Globe-Republican, May 12, 1893, page 6