Dakota Slim McDonald

Dakota Slim McDonald was held in a cell in the Colfax jail in Washington when a mob returned to the jail and came to his cell. He had blocked the keyhole and sheltered behind a steel inner door. According to the New-York Tribune, one of the mob fired through the door, the bullet ricocheted and struck him in the chest, and he was dead when the mob left the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1898 newspaper account says a mob returned to his cell in the Colfax jail, and one man fired through the steel inner door, with the bullet ricocheting and striking him in the chest.

Reported by: 1898 newspaper account of the Colfax jail lynching (reporters).

Source

• New-York Tribune, January 9, 1898, page 1 New-York Tribune, January 9, 1898