Richard Coleman
Richard Coleman was being taken from Covington to Maysville in the custody of Sheriff Perrin and his deputies in December 1899. A mob of about 1,000 people met the party at the courthouse, and the sheriff and guards could not stop them from seizing him. The mob bound him to a sapling outside the city, set fire to brushwood piled around him, and pushed his body back into the flames after he fell. The account says he begged for water while he could still speak.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 1,000 seized Richard Coleman from Sheriff Perrin and his deputies while they were bringing him to Maysville, then burned him to death after binding him to a sapling.
Reported by: Sheriff Perrin and his deputies (guards escorting him) (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.