Name not reported
Hugh Jones, a Black man, was captured at Lagrange, Tennessee, and was being brought to Middleton by special deputies on July 14, 1908, according to a Nashville dispatch printed in the Hopkinsville Kentuckian. The dispatch says a mob of about 100 men took him from the deputies and strung him up from a sapling limb near Middleton at daylight. Nothing in the account describes how the deputies responded when the mob appeared. The dispatch is the only source for these events.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Nashville dispatch reports that a mob of about 100 men took the man from the special deputies bringing him to Middleton and strung him up to a sapling limb.
Reported by: Nashville dispatch published in the Hopkinsville Kentuckian (reporters).