The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles

Date: 
July 1, 1854

Deceased

Charles
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Other
COD Method/Implement: 
machinery
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the say Boy Charles. . . came to his death by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
William M. Dunn
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Kings W Iron Co[?] Rolling Mill
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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

William Harris says on oath he was within some fifteen or twenty paces of the Rolling Mill and saw the Hands[?] as usual Rolling and about the time the Mill was about stopping heard a hollow and looked and saw the Boy Charles at that time wound around the coupling of the Rolls

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