Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
A man held in the Nowata, Oklahoma, jail was taken from the jail by a mob on the evening of September 29, 1916, and killed in front of the courthouse. He was one of two men the mob removed from the jail that evening, and both were lynched in the same place. The Birmingham Age-Herald reported the killings the following day.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched