The State vs. the Dead Body of Willie Adair

Date: 
May 25, 1875

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Eaney Metts
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Willie Adair, was killed and murdered at the house of Charley Adairs on the plantation of D.A. Glenns by blows with a large hammer, in left temple, mashing in the skull badly, after the blows, by hanging with a split to a ladder, also by blows with stick, all by the hands of Rachel Fowlers, the nurse of Wille...

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at D.A. Glenns
County: 

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Rachel Fowler
Inquest Images: 
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