The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Trabough

Date: 
July 14, 1913

Deceased

Lewis Trabough
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say: Lewis Trabough came to his death From pistol shot in the hand of Ben Gardner.

Coroner

Coroner: 
H. T. Atkinson
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cheraw
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Ben Gardner
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Transcription: 

Jeff Lee Sworn Says I was in back off of Wm McDonald House Saw Dead at the gote with a hammer. Saw Garden came Out of his house with gun in his hand walked up in about 10 ft of Dead and Shot him . . .

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