The State vs. the Dead Body of Isaah Golden

Date: 
August 27, 1860

Deceased

Isaah Golden
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the deceased Came to his death. . .by John Williams sen and John Williams Jr that they did feloniously killed the deceased Isaah Golden with a knife

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. H. Harden
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Silverton Beach iland
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

he saw John Williams Sen kick Isaah Golden Son and he heard Golden say that he would whip the said Williams for it and John Williams sen had gone some distance from the place then John Williams Jun[?] ran after him John Williams sen and gave him his own knife and told him to go back and kill him and when he Williams sen came back Golden struck him with his hand and then John Williams sen stabed him with his knife on the left side the cut was six inches in [?]

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