Died in jail or a lockup
Philip Ireland
Philip Ireland, a man of American Indian descent, was held in the jail at Williamsport in Emmons County, North Dakota. Newspaper accounts from November 1897 say that on the night of Saturday, November 13, a masked mob took him from the jail along with two other men and hanged him from a beef windlass. The papers report that he was nearly unconscious from being dragged before he was raised off the ground. Accounts of the mob's entry into the jail vary across the papers, and one says it was the same mob that took the others.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Philip Ireland from the Emmons County jail in Williamsport, North Dakota, and hanged him in November 1897.
Reported by: news reports.