Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, jail was taken out by a mob and lynched, according to a brief in the River Falls Journal of November 5, 1903. The brief gives no name, age, or exact date for the death. Its account of the seizure is a single line within a weekly news roundup, so the details of how the mob reached the prisoner are not available here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.