Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This Black person was one of five people held in the jail at Starkville, who were taken from it late on January 21, 1916. A small party of men took the five from the jail and killed them. The Bismarck Daily Tribune reported the killings the next day, on January 22, 1916.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched