The State vs. the Dead Body of Elizabeth Brown

Date: 
May 3, 1859

Deceased

Elizabeth Brown
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Poison
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by voluntarily administering poison with her own hands, at her Fathers House in the District afforesaid

Coroner

Coroner: 
E. Thompson
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Daniel Browns House
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

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

Daniel Brown being Duly sworn Deposes & says that when he first saw her she had left the house some six minutes when he was alarmed by an unusual noise from her in the Direction of the Church the vial looks like the one that was found in her drawer, he was convinced from what she told her mother, that she had taken strychnine, he knew nothing of her having it before...

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