The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Phearby

Date: 
September 1, 1882

Deceased

Thomas Phearby
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that said Thomas Phearby ... came to his death from Pistol show wound in the back of his head received from a pistol in the hand of John H. Foster

Coroner

Coroner: 
S. B. Ezell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the Mill's Gap Road
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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

I then headed off towards the wagon and the prisoner broke to run through the woods. I was riding a nule and started after him but he was disappearing in the bushes. I got fifteen or twenty feet from the road and drew a small pistol of thirty-two calibre and ... fired in the direction of the prisoner

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