The State vs. the Dead Body of H. C. Rice

Date: 
December 29, 1859

Deceased

H. C. Rice
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say - that the deceased came to his death by the the discharge of a double Barrell shotgun which the deceased contrived to discharge he receiving[?] the contents of one Barrell in the left breast to [?] to the right of the left nipple and that the [?] the decd was committed Having a [?] of mania

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Gibbs
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of HC Rice
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

deceased told witness he intended to kill himself last Thursday night

Says he saw deceased yesterday morning and he deceased said that the Negroes were trying to kill him and that there were some white persons none to goog to kill him and that he saw signs of delirium Tremors[?]

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