Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three men held in a North Dakota jail were taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to an 1897 newspaper editorial that called the killing cowardly. The chief justice of the state supreme court said he had ample evidence that one of the three was innocent. The accounts describe the men only as people held in the jail and killed by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper editorial says a mob took three men from a North Dakota jail and hanged them.
Reported by: newspaper editorial.