The State vs. the Dead Body of Isah Zimmerman

Date: 
December 26, 1881

Deceased

Isah Zimmerman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that He Come to His Death by a Pistol Shot Wound in the hands of Lias Dorn accidently

Coroner

Coroner: 
W. M. Corley
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Residence of W F Ste[?]eies
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Lias Dorn
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

Dennis Anderson says that he was standing by the Fire place Lias Dorn asked him for a Cap He Handed him a Cap and he was putting it on the Pistol the Pistol fireed He thinks accidently while putting it on shot the said Deceased He standing near the Door Lias Dorn remarked that he had shot Him and said he Hated it verry mutch

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