Burgess
Nathan Bergess was held in the jail at Lebanon, Virginia, in late October 1892. According to the account in The Times, a mob of about forty or fifty masked men overpowered the jailer and forced him to hand over the key to the cell. Nathan Bergess and Sherman Laucus, handcuffed together, were taken from the jail, carried about half a mile west of town and hanged from an oak tree beside the public road. The mob fired bullets into their bodies before leaving, and a coroner's inquest jury failed to agree on a verdict.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of masked men overpowered the jailer at Lebanon, Virginia, took Nathan Bergess from the jail and hanged him from an oak tree beside the public road, firing bullets into the bodies before leaving.
Reported by: coroner's inquest jury (medical examiner or coroner); news reports.