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On This Day | Lynching in Williston
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Josh Wolsky
Williston, N. D., Dec. 16.—Cleve Culbertson, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. D. Dillon and their thirteen-year-old daughter at the Dillon farm eight miles north of Ray on the evening of Oct. 21, 1913, was taken from the local jail at Williston at four o’clock Tuesday morning by a masked mob of infuriated citizens, and after being carried to the high railway bridge it spans the Little Muddy a mile and a half east of Williston, was hanged and shot to death. The lynching party disappeared as quietly as they appeared and no one seems to know just who comprised the party.
1913-12-18 | Ward County Independent
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This is a sensational event in North Dakota history, and a reminder that when law doesn't hold the order, we're vulnerable to a different kind of justice.
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