The State vs. the Dead Body of Columbus Baskins

Date: 
December 20, 1912

Deceased

Columbus Baskins
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: Columbus Baskins came to his death by gun shots inflicted wound by his own hand

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. J. Atkinson
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at B R Rivers Doer
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

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

Daniel Baskins Sworn Says Witness [???] home about 100c & dead was lying across bed ased how dead was found he be [???] sides & he was [???] . . .
D/ [?] Tea; being sworn saws I made examination of the dead body of Columbus Baskins and find a gun shot wound entering into his right eye going directly to his brain . . . wound was sufficient to cause his death . . . the wound was self inflicted

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