The State vs. the Dead Body of Richard

his Skull smashed and there was blood and brains on the Stirrup of the band wheel and on the arm of the cog wheel of his Gin

Date: 
September 9, 1850

Deceased

Description: 
negro boy Slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
machinery
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say, that. . .we believe the deceased came to his death by accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Thomas Garretts

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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L19077_0001_177.jpg

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