Joseph Burgess

First Name: Joseph
Last Name: Burgess
Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
gun
COD Inquest Finding: 

say upon their oaths the said Joseph Burgess in manner and form came to his death by a stroke or blows withs with a gun across his right ear and the back part of his head. Supposed to have been effected from every circumstance in our view by George McKnight

COD Short Description: 
beaten with gun
Original Record: 
3230

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