Sharp Instrument

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

upon their oaths do say that the said John Randall came to his death. . .from wounds inflicted upon his neck and throat. . .by a Razor in his own hand

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

upon their Oaths do say, that the said Mart Randall came to her death from a large cut or gash across the throat made by a Razor in the hand of her husband John Randall

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

upon their oaths do say, that the said Riddle came to his death by a wound or stab with some cutting instrument inflicted just under the left ear by some hand to this jury unknown

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

upon their oaths do say, that he came to his death. . .by cutting his throat with a pocket knife

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

upon their oaths do say that the said A.W. Burt was Killed by his own slave Toll with an axe

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

Upon their Oaths do say that the said Larkin Swearengen came to his death, by a wound in the throat inflicted with a razor, by his own hand

Description: 
negro man, boy, slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

Do say upon their Oaths that one Samuel Butler of the District aforesaid not having God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil . . .with force & arms at his place of residence . . .made an assault, and . . .with a certain Kinf & whip ... did inflict ... several wounds and bruses of which wounds & bruises he lingered and died

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

upon their oaths do say that said Negro slave Aaron was Feloniously Killed . . .by a stab on the left side of the throat with a chissel about one inch and a half wide, by the hand of some person unknown

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

upon their Oaths do say that the said John A. Butler was killed & murdered by some person or persons to the Jurors unknown

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

upon their Oaths do say that the Decd came to his death by committing Suicide . . .in his own Gin house by cutting the arteries of neck with his own razor, and bled to death

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