Died in jail or a lockup
Joseph Fortin
Joseph Fortin had been sent to Stony Brook by an employment agency to work for a contractor on the Great Northern line. In August 1900 the Courier Democrat reported that he was taken off an eastern Minnesota railway train in a crazed condition and placed in a village jail, where he was given medical attention but died. The paper said there was a suspicion of foul play at Stony Brook, linked to an alleged illegal saloon there.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The newspaper reports a suspicion of foul play at Stony Brook, linked to an alleged illegal saloon, but gives no cause of death.