Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1897 · North Dakota

According to a Bismarck dispatch printed in the Narragansett Herald in November 1897, a mob took one of three men from a North Dakota jail and hanged him. The dispatch describes the lynching as the mob's act, and it does not say how the jail's officers responded to the crowd.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Bismarck dispatch in the Narragansett Herald reports that a mob took one of three men from a jail and hanged him.

Reported by: Narragansett Herald, citing a Bismarck dispatch (reporters).

Source

Narragansett Herald, November 27, 1897, page 1 Narragansett Herald, November 27, 1897

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