The State vs. the Dead Body of William Owens

Date: 
October 13, 1831

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths - not having God before his eyes but being Seduced by the Devil at the Machine hoise of Pressley Owens standing and being the said Wm. Owens being then and there alone with a certain cotton plough line which he then and there had and held in his hands and one end thereof he then and there put about his neck and the other end thereof he tied about the rib of the aforesaid Machine house and himself then and there with the cord aforesaid Voluntarily and feloniously and of his malice aforethough hangd and sufficated [sic]...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Machine house of Pressley Owens
County: 

Source

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