The State vs. the Dead Body of Wallace Halloway

Date: 
June 25, 1895

Deceased

Wallace Halloway
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
train
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that we the Jury agree that Wallace Halloway came to his death in consequences of injuries received in a wreck which occurred on the south Carolina Rail Road near the rock Quarry

Coroner

Coroner: 
L. G. Bell
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Edgefield Court house
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

I do think the wreck was caused by negligence of rail road The raod had Just been repaired and was considered in better shape than it had been for three years ... The ties was considered sufficient to hold the spikes

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