The State vs. the Dead Body of Willis Lodd

Date: 
July 25, 1877

Deceased

Willis Lodd
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oath do say that the said Willis Lodd came to his death by a pistol shot fired from the hands of one Butler Putman

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. P. Hunter
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Loutens [?] cross roads
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Butler Putman
Inquest Images: 
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