Tony Sutton
Tony Button, a Black man, was in the custody of officers in Dooly County, Georgia, in late November 1895, when a mob took him from them, according to an Atlanta Constitution dispatch. That report says the mob carried him into the woods and shot him on the night of November 27. A separate Atlanta dispatch, reprinted in the Shiner Gazette under the name Tony Sutton, says a mob seized a man of that name near Unadilla and hanged him, and that no trace of him was found afterward. That account adds that his father and brother were arrested and released on condition that they give him up.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Atlanta special dispatch reprinted in the Shiner Gazette reports that a mob seized him from officers and hanged him.
Reported by: Atlanta special dispatch reprinted in the Shiner Gazette (reporters).