Sharp Instrument

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD Method/Implement: 
razor
COD Inquest Finding: 

after said examination and due deliberation are of opinion that the said Alexander Rogers caused his death by cutting his throat with a razor, he being in a state of mental derangement at the time caused by fever

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Belfast [did] voluntarily & feloniously ... kill and murder himself with a knife by stabbing himself in the neck

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
71
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
saw
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .the said Stephen Yaergin came to his death by misfortune or accident

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

upon their oaths do say Newton Cox . . .came to his death. . . from a blow struck on his head [?] an axe in the hands of one Charlie Sulivan at the house of one Joycy Batson

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by a wound inflicted by a sharp instrument held in the hands of Boy named Abe the property of H. J. Gilreath

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

do say that Allen S. Barksdale came ot his death by an axe in the hands of Mary A. Gray on the night of 22nd June 1876 in self-defense in her own house and yard with several wounds with a mortal wound inflicted with ^the edge of^ an axe upon the top of the head to length of 3 inches severing in the skull bone.

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

do say that the said Nelson Right . . . [came] to his death from a wound in left shoulder in . . .knife or some other sharp instrument. The wound was in between the sholder blade and in a downward direction towards the heart?the said wound was inflicted by the hand of Robert Robertson

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

do say from a wound on his left side between the second and eight ribs penetrating to the. . .by a knife

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

do say that Bill Reese came to his death from a wound inflicted by a knife held in the hands of Sam Minse[?]

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that. . .the said Adeline Agnew was killed and murdered by a knife in the hands of Shadrack Webster.

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