Blunt Instrument

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
rock
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Wm Roster alias Berges came to his death From a blow received by a rock thrown from the hands of Rafe Dickson this the 9th day of June 1891.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
rock
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, That the said L.F. Pinson came to his death by a blow inflicted on the head with a rock at the hands of Coleman Nelson

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
stomped
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, that when and where they Know not, nor by what instrument the deceast was Kild, But that the said Jack was feloniously by Beeting, that the said Jack was Killed and murdered by some person or persons by some means to the Jurors unknown

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the slave Bookey came to his death by a State of General Congestion through the internal organs caused bya whipping at the hands of Henry Mardy, Murphy Hughes N. A. McLeod and R G W Grissett Instruments a Strap & Paddle Justifiable in the punishment they inflicted

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, That the said Elizabeth M. Skipper, was killed and murdered by some person or persons to the Jurors unknown

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say; that he came to his death by wounds inflicted with a hickory club on the head and side and hip in the hand of Doctor Miles Gilmore

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said Worley Smith came to his death on the sixteenth day of February A.D. 1900 from blows inflicted by one

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, That she came to her death from causes unknown to the Jurors.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
baseball bat
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say the deceased came to his death at Ware's base ball ground, the 5th of Sept 1891 from a blow on the head with a base ball bat in the hands of Charles Young.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, That Lewis Hall was killed on the 9th day of January 1883, in Fairfield County in what manner and with what instrument unknown to the Jurors

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