The State vs. the Dead Body of Phillip McDonough

put an end to his life by cutting with a razor through his windpipe & also through the veins and arteries of his left arm

Date: 
December 13, 1829

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD Method/Implement: 
razor
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that said deceased died of his own voluntary act put an end to his life by cutting with a razor through his windpipe & also through the veins and arteries of his left arm.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of Thomas Nelson in the town of Winnsborough

Source

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