The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Powell

Date: 
May 15, 1881

Deceased

Henry Powell
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death from wounds mad by a Knife in his throat, by whom inflicted to the Jury unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. Godfrey
Coroner Title: 
Trial Justice

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Cheraw
County: 
Chesterfield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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Transcription: 

. . . He did not seem to be in his usual mind. . . I thought he was tight. I slep in next room to him . . . I went to sleep immediately. I found him dead in the morning. He was not cold when I saw him. I don't think he had been killed long. Never saw him play any game the door was not locked. . . K. C. Timman
D. B. Kimbell Saw the dead last Friday morning when to see him. Said he was very sick went back to see him last night seemed to be quite sick. . .

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