The State vs. the Dead Body of John G. Gorley | CSI: Dixie

The State vs. the Dead Body of John G. Gorley

Date:

July 26, 1866

Deceased

John G. Gorley

Sex:

Male

Race:

White

Age Descriptor:

50

COD Category:

Homicide

COD:

COD Method/Implement:

rope

COD Inquest Finding:

the said John G. Gorly came to his death?by having been hanged by the nexck until his body was dead, by means of a certain of a certain grass rope fastened to the limb of a certain oak sapling near to the spot where the bones then lay....and that Henry J. Knauff of Pendleton village...and John Baskins and Thompson Oliver...did there and there feloneously hang and murder the said John G. Gorly

Coroner

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

magistrate acting as coroner

Location

County:

Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator:

Thompson Oliver, John Baskins & Henry Knauff

Inquest Images:

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