Jane Smith

First Name: Jane
Last Name: Smith
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Poison
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Jane Smith came to her death by a dose of Strychnine accidentally given her for Colomel and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid, do say the aforesaid Jane Smith came to her death in the manner as before said.

COD Short Description: 
took Strychnine by accident
Original Record: 
4960

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