The State vs. the Dead Body of Lewis Green

Date: 
September 17, 1859

Deceased

Lewis Green
Description: 
free man of color
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Method/Implement: 
arsenic
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Lewis Green came to his death by poisioning with arsnick at the Williamston Hotel. . . on the night of the seventeenth day of September. . . the said poison being administered at the said Hotel somewhere about the thirteenth day of September...the medium of a certain sponge cake or pudding by some person or persons unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
William A. Acker
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Williamston Hotel
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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