Alex Collect
Alex Collect, an American Indian man, was being held in the Emmons County jail in North Dakota in November 1897. A mob of about forty men took him from the jail, along with two other men held there, and hanged him from a beef windlass several hundred yards away, near Williamsport. According to a newspaper dispatch published two days later, the deputy sheriff holding the men did not resist the mob. The dispatch says the bodies were left hanging through the day because the coroner had not yet arrived.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about forty men took Alex Collect from the Emmons County jail and hanged him from a beef windlass, and the deputy sheriff holding the men did not resist.
Reported by: news reports.