The State vs. the Dead Body of Van Hendrix

Date: 
February 14, 1877

Deceased

Van Hendrix
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Van B Hendrix came to his death from a gun shot wound made in his right breast[?] from a gun then and there fired from the hands of Herbert Garmany

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Bayne
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Garmany's
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Herbert Garmany
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

I herd Hendrix say to Herbert Garmany God Dam you I will take[?] you I then herd two shots. Hendrix shot his pistol first & then Garmany fired his gun they were close together (the shots) I was about ten or eleven steps from Hendrix when the firing took place

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