Clara Bell

First Name: Clara
Last Name: Bell
Description: 
colored child
Sex: 
Female
Age Descriptor: 
child
Child: 
child
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say: . . . the elder Child was conscious before it died and did say that a black man, and others say that she (the child) said that it was a yellow man that set fire to the house which burnt her & the other child to death hence we find that the Children were burnt to death but unknown by whom, and if it shall appear that the deceased were wilfully killed by another

COD Short Description: 
killed by arsonist
Original Record: 
3696

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