Seabright
Tom Seabwright, a Black man, was being taken to the jail in Bainbridge, Georgia, by two county officers in early October 1905. A crowd of more than fifty men surrounded the officers and demanded that he be handed over, and the officers gave him up, according to the Los Angeles Herald, while the New-York Tribune reports that the officers said they tried to protect him but were outnumbered. The mob hanged him from a tree and shot his body hundreds of times, and the coroner cut him down the following day or that evening, the accounts differ. The sources disagree over whether the officers resisted.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of more than fifty men took him from two county officers while they were driving him to jail in Bainbridge, Georgia, and hanged him, and the officers say they were outnumbered and forced to give him up.
Reported by: two county officers (as reported by the New-York Tribune telegraph report) (the agency that held him); New-York Tribune telegraph report (reporters); The Democratic Advocate, citing a wire dispatch from Georgia (reporters); Special to The Herald (reporters).