It was the duty of the justice of the peace to act as coroner and hold inquests on the bodies of those supposed to have died of unlawful means within his precinct. These two volumes record inquests held by the city judge who was also the ex-officio justice of the peace for the city. In 1965, with the creation of a state medical examiner's position, the series ends. The volumes are chronological.
Entries are primarily chronological.
Both volumes have partial indices. Entries in the first are arranged chronologically. In the second, the entries are in alphabetical order by the first letter of the deceased's surname. The first volume was microfilmed in 1981, the second in 1991. Archivally processed by A.C. Cone in 1990.