The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary Thompson

Date: 
June 12, 1878

Deceased

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

find that the child has been burnt on the spinal [?] a place as large as a [?] also burnt on the [?] and near mostly all over its body as pieces between [?] as to the cause of her death is from constriction of the brain.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
trial justice acting as coroner

Location

Source

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