Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black woman held in a jail was one of four people a mob took from it and hanged, according to the Sully County Watchman, which reported the killings on October 10, 1885. The four were taken from the jail and hanged together. The account gives her as one of the four, and the mob's killing of her is the only event it describes for her.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.