The State vs. the Dead Body of infant

Date: 
June 15, 1884

Deceased

infant
Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
unknown
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said male infant child name unknown was killed and murdered by some person, or persons, or by some means, either by crushing of th head with some instrument unknown by drowning or both

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. E. Webster
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Gaffney City
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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

J. J. Brown sworn for State says.... Witness found the dead body of a child in witness fish pond ... the 15th June 1884, took it from the pond to day. it was in a sack about the size of a 25 lb. flour sack. there were two rocks in the sack that sunk the child.

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