Tom Seabwright
Tom Seabright, a Black man, was in the custody of two county officers who were taking him to the jail in Bainbridge, Georgia, in early October 1905. A crowd of more than fifty men surrounded the officers and demanded that he be handed over. One newspaper account says the officers gave him up without resistance, while the officers themselves said they tried to protect him but were outnumbered and forced to surrender him. According to that account, Tom maintained his innocence before the mob hanged him from a tree and fired hundreds of bullets into his body. The coroner later cut his body down.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of more than fifty men took him from two county officers, who gave him up, and hanged him from a tree; news reports say they then shot him, and the officers said they had tried to protect him.
Reported by: Special to The Herald (reporters); New-York Tribune telegraph report (reporters); the two county officers.