Name not reported
An unidentified Black man was held at the city prison in Nettleton, and in the early hours of January 22, 1909, a mob broke into the jail and took him, according to a Hearst News Service dispatch printed in The Hattiesburg News. The marshal reportedly found the jail broken into and the man gone. The account said he was either lynched or beaten and then turned loose, and his body had not been found when it was published. The dispatch does not say whether the jailer or marshal resisted the mob or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Hearst News Service dispatch reports that a mob broke into the Nettleton jail and took a man from it, and that he was either lynched or beaten and turned loose.
Reported by: Hearst News Service dispatch (reporters).