The State vs. the Dead Body of Thomas Richards

Date: 
July 31, 1888

Deceased

Thomas Richards
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Thomas Richards came to his death by accidentally falling or jumping off Train number fifty-one (51) on the Atalnta and Charlotte Air Line Division of the Richmond and Danville Railrad [and] was accidentally caught under and run over and killed by said train of cars

Coroner

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

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Air Line Railroad Bridge on Broad River
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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