Joseph Hughes

First Name: Joseph
Last Name: Hughes
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
stick or board
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that James A. Price did . . .at his own house in the said District with a club, stick or board hit the said Joseph Hughes over the head inflicting three severe wounds in the forehead and bruising the head nearly all over

COD Short Description: 
hit with stick or board
Original Record: 
3297

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