James Sanberg
James Sanberg, a Black man, was held in the Tiptonville jail in Tennessee. According to the Semi-Weekly Herald of November 26, 1908, an angry mob surrounded the jail through the day of November 25 while the sheriff and his few guards were outnumbered. The mob was put off for a time by a promise of an immediate trial, but it reassembled after troops were reported to be on the way, took James Sanberg from the jail and hanged him. The article reports that a special train carrying a circuit judge, the attorney general and soldiers was on its way to hold that trial.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper reported that a mob took James Sanberg and two other men from the Tiptonville jail and hanged them on November 25, 1908.
Reported by: newspaper account of the Tiptonville lynching (reporters).