The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles S. Harrison

my Pistol ... has not been Shot Since I Shot My Self with it

Date: 
November 25, 1878

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Charles S Harrison came to his death by an accidental Pistol Shot from the hands of F A Bilanger

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at E.C. House

Source

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