The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Bartie

I heard you said my wife give you the clap

Date: 
July 26, 1864

Deceased

Lewis Bartie
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said Lewis Bartie the deceased came to his death. . .by a wound received from a Double Barrel shot gun in the hands of James Green

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Murrell
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mount Zion Church
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
James Green
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

you have bin talking about my wife I heard you said my wife give you the clap he said to Bartie did you say so Bartie said yes I did as he said that James shirly[?] cocked his gun Lewis Bartie raised from his chair as he raised James shirly shot him Bartie

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