The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Burt

Date: 
June 21, 1895

Deceased

Henry Burt
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their oaths do say that Henry Burt came to his death from a knife wound n the hands of Jim Chamberlain

Coroner

Coroner: 
L. G. Bell
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Henry Burts
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Jim Chamberlain
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

He and Jim were at Variance before I found him right in the road ... He asked him what he was doing to his Mother and he stabbed him with his knife

He told me yesterday that he would be all right if he could get the blood out of him, that the Doctor had never given him any thing to get that blood out of him

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