The State vs. the Dead Body of Adeline Agnew

Date: 
May 14, 1871

Deceased

Adeline Agnew
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that. . .the said Adeline Agnew was killed and murdered by a knife in the hands of Shadrack Webster.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Warren D. Wilkes
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
near the residence of Ephraim R. Cobb
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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