The State vs. the Dead Body of William Barrett

Date: 
March 15, 1884

Deceased

William Barrett
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Overdose
COD Method/Implement: 
morphine
COD Inquest Finding: 

by their oaths do say that . . . the said William T Barrett came to his death from the effects of an over dose of morphine administered by himself

Coroner

Coroner: 
Alexander McBee
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Telephone Exchange in the City of Greenville
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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