Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person was one of five people held in the Starkville jail who were taken out late on January 21, 1916, by a small party of men and killed. The Bismarck Daily Tribune reported the next day that the men took the five from the jail and killed them. The report describes the killings as a lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched