The State vs. the Dead Body of William Padgett

Date: 
February 22, 1894

Deceased

William Padgett
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said William Padgett aforesaid Came to his death from a gun shot wound in the hands of Tom Rutland

Coroner

Coroner: 
J. Pope Roton
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at W.D. Readys plantation
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Tom Rutland
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

He then gets up and taken his gun, and said he was going to Mr William Readys House and on leaving he mett William Padgett about Two hundred yards from my house Then I heard the report of a gun and then I went to the door but before I got to the door I heard William Padgett calling me I saw Tom Rutland with his hand walking away Tom Rutland said I will kill you, you son of a bitch, and William Padgett said you have already kill me

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