Lewis Green

First Name: Lewis
Last Name: Green
Description: 
free man of color
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Method/Implement: 
arsenic
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Lewis Green came to his death by poisioning with arsnick at the Williamston Hotel. . . on the night of the seventeenth day of September. . . the said poison being administered at the said Hotel somewhere about the thirteenth day of September...the medium of a certain sponge cake or pudding by some person or persons unknown

COD Short Description: 
poisoned by sponge cake or pudding
Original Record: 
2404

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