Cleve Culbertson
Cleve Culbertson was held in the Williams County jail in Williston, North Dakota, in December 1913. According to an Associated Press report published December 16, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him near Williston. The El Paso Herald and the Highland Recorder reported that masked men broke the jail doors and pulled him from his cell, and that the sheriff warned them off. The Highland Recorder said two men who tried to intervene were badly beaten. Accounts differ on whether he was hanged from a bridge or from a nearby tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Cleve Culbertson from the Williams County jail in Williston, North Dakota, and hanged him; the sheriff warned them off, according to one account.
Reported by: Sheriff of Williams County (the agency that held him); Associated Press (reporters).