BENTURA BENCOMO
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Officer Rank: Jailer
Memorial Panel: 32-W: 22
Department: Grant County, New Mexico, S.D.
End of Watch: April 2, 1921
Cause: NIFE
Age: 59
Years of Service: 12
Description: Jailer Bencomo was attacked and killed by two escaping juvenile prisoners who had tunneled through the wall of their cell. Jailer Bencomo was asleep in the jail when one of the escaping prisoners bludgeoned him to death with an axe.
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