The State vs. the Dead Body of Adolphus Littlejohn

Date: 
May 31, 1888

Deceased

Adolphus Littlejohn
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Adolphus Littlejohn came to his death by being run over by the Ballast Train of the Richmond and Danville Roilroad about the incorporate limits of Gaffney City

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: 

Witness knows Adolphus Littlejohn. he was one of our section hands.... Adolphus Littlejohn got hurt yesterday by the train. Witness was on the train on the brake about four flat cars from Adolphus, and I saw Capt. B. B. Smith's (our section master's) hat blow off.... I saw Adolphus Littlejohn pitch off on the R.R. track. The train, 3 or four flats, run over Adolphus Littlejohn's body.

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