The State vs. the Dead Body of James Moore

The dec'd was accustomed to take choloroform

Date: 
September 8, 1881

Deceased

James Moore
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Overdose
COD Method/Implement: 
anodynes
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said James P. Moore came to his death from the effect of anodynes administered by himself; but whether with the intention of taking his life or not the jury are unable to say.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alexander McBee
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Greenville
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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Transcription: 

a warrant had been issued for the Dec'd

Found a bottle containing laudanum in the barn where the dec'd was said to be lying also an empty vial labeled chloroform

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