The Daily True Delta --7/6/1861

The Last St. Louis Massacre--Verdict of the Coroner's Jury

The coroner's jury in the case of the massacre at St. Louis of the 17th inst., in which inoffensive citizens were shot down in cold blood by federal troops, returned the following verdict:

The persons killed came by their death by gunshot wounds inflicted on Seventh street, between Pine and Olive, by minie balls discharged by certain members of companies of C, E, F, B, and I of the Second Regiment of U. S. Reserve troops, which was marching down Seventh street of the 17th inst.,

The jury further expresses it, as their opinion, that these wounds were inflicted without any provocation or discharge of any firearms from the citizens then present, and also, without any order of fire having been given by the officers in command of said U. S. Reserves.

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