The State vs. the Dead Body of Gus Blocker

Date: 
August 18, 1892

Deceased

Gus Blocker
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say that the Said Gus Blocker came to his death by a gun Shot in the hands of one Isiac[?] Blocker

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. P. Covar
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantion of July Blocker
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Ike Blocker
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Guss said to Ike you must stop following me up at that time he said Guss get something and throw at Ike it must have been a rock this time Ike pulled down on him again and shot him Guss was talking to another man was not saying any thing to Ike when shot after the shooting I took a pistol from Ike

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