The State vs. the Dead Body of William Wages, Edmond Wages

Date: 
March 12, 1863

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that [they] came to [their] death by wounds received upon his person with buck shot discharged from a gun of some sort in the hands of a person or persons unknown

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that [they] came to [their] death by wounds received upon his person with buck shot discharged from a gun of some sort in the hands of a person or persons unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
two and a half miles from the residence of G .E. Doby
County: 

Source

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