The State vs. the Dead Body of Peter White

Date: 
March 11, 1898

Deceased

Peter White
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths, do say that Peter White came to his Death by Gun Shot wound in the hands of Henry Calhoun

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. Gilchrist
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Jacob White upon the Plantation Silvester Chipley
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Henry Calhoun
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

I Saw it when the Shooting Commenced ... I herd Peter White Deceast call Aunt Cilla I got up and went to the window to see who it was Calling and he was Deceast Calling Aunt Cilla Peter White Deceast was walking backwards and Henry Calhoone was advancing on him Decease says if you don't quit I am going back home then the pistol firied I went to the spot immediately and Peter White Dec & Henry Calhoone was there and I witness ask Henry Calhoone what he shoot him for and he gave no answer

Cant Say that was accidental or not

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