Tom Seabright
Tom Seabright, a Black man, was being taken to jail in Bainbridge, Georgia, by two county officers on October 8, 1905, according to a dispatch in the Los Angeles Herald. A crowd of more than fifty men surrounded the officers and demanded that he be handed over, and the officers gave him up. The Herald reports that he protested his innocence, that the mob hanged him from a tree, and that hundreds of bullets were then fired into his body. The coroner cut the body down that evening.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of more than fifty men took him from two county officers who were taking him to jail, hanged him from a tree and shot him, according to Special to The Herald.
Reported by: Special to The Herald (reporters).