Coroner's Inquest - Sarah Maxwell
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

	
								A CORONER'S INQUEST


Brooke County,  to-wit:
	
		Inquisition indented, taken near a Branch of Holbert's Run, in the County
aforesaid, the 9th day of July, in the thirtieth year of the commonwealth,
before me, John Edie, one of the coroners of the commonwealth. for the county
aforesaid, upon the view of the body of Sarah Maxwell, late of the county
aforesaid, then and there lying dead, and upon the oaths of John G. Young,
John McMillen,  John Wylie,  Alexander Morrow,  William Morrow,  Cornelius
Aten,  James Andrews,  James Cameron,  Nathan Baker,  Daniel McLead,  Thomas
P. Peterson and James Morrow, good and lawful men of the county aforesaid who
being duly sworn and charged to enquire on the part of the commonwealth, when,
where and how and after what manner, the said Sarah Maxwell came to her death
do say upon their oath that she the said Sarah Maxwell not having the fear of
God before her eyes, but being seanced and moved by the instigation of the
Devil, at the county aforesaid, in a certain wood, near a branch of Holbert's
Run aforesaid, standing, and being, the said Sarah Maxwell, being then and
there alone, with a certain flaxen rope of the value of six cents, which she
then and there held in her hands,  and one end thereof then and there put
about her neck, and the other end thereof tied about a bough of a certain
Birch tree, herself then and there, with the rope aforesaid, voluntarily,
feloniously, and of her own malice aforethought, hanged and suffocated, and so
the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, say that the said Sarah
Maxwell, then and there, in manner and form aforesaid, as a felon of herself,
feloniously and voluntarily and of her malice aforethought, killed herself,
strangled, and murdered against the peace, and dignity, of the commonwealth.
	In witness thereof, as well the Coroner, as the jurors aforesaid, have to
this Inquisition, put their seals and the day and year aforesaid and at the
place aforesaid.

John Edie,  Coroner
John G. Young
John Wylie
Alexander Morrow
William Morrow
Cornelius Aten
James Andrews
James Cameron
Nathaniel Baker
Daniel McLead
Thomas P. Peterson
James Morrow
John McMillen