The State vs. the Dead Body of Pink Williams

Pink and Lawyer[?] Holloway were disputing over 5 cts

Date: 
October 6, 1898

Deceased

Pink Williams
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths, do Say that Pink Williams came to his death by Gun Shot wounds in the hands of Lawyer[?] Holoway[?]

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. G. Austin
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at or near Mr E.F. Pickles residence
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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