Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-05-07
Coroner,s Inauest.

Coroner's Inquest.
The following is the substance Of the
testimony ELECTED at the inquest held
by Coroner Symous at Gold Hill day be-
fore yesterday upon the body of George
Weir, found dead in his bed last Mon
day morning
Timothy Rouse, sworu-I am n miner;
knew deceased ; nursed him while he
was sick with the smallpox; he had
been well of the disease for about six
teen days when he died was still sick
after the smallpox left him he ap.
peared to be better the day before his
death | was his nurse ; he had spells
of sickness /; night before last he asked
me to go to the doctor ; before | went I
told deceased l was very hungry, aud |
took some crackers, aud he asked for
one ; | gave him about half II cracker
ard he ate it on my interview with the
doctor he said he thought deceased was
n little nervous, and did not think him
so sick Us he was he said that he him
self had been sick for two or three days
Va No "Odlu huNS DNCu uV"h w " Nv
ceased said he would be down the next
forenoon /; told me if il was u warm
night, and | could make it convenient,
to take him down to the bath house aud
give him n warm bath the deceased
had requested me to ask the doctor 10
send something down to make him sleep
If he could not come himself the doc
tor gave me u powder and told me to
give it to him at bed time, but said not
give il to him until IL o'clock. | stayed
up bali an hour after that before | went
10 bed George had been sitting up in The
bed the while then he asked me to let
him lie down, rs he said he was getting
sleepy !; then he told me to go to bed,
which | did, leaving the light burning /;
| woke up after a while, but did not
know the time as he had put the light
out himself; | heard him breathing; |
went to sleep again, aud slopt till 6
o'clock in the morning when | woke
up he was dead the doctor made the
powder up himself; the hauds and fore
head Of deceased were cold found no
pulse the doctor did not tell MS what
the powder was composed of; the doc
tor told James Muir that he gave him
one graiu Of opium in my presence, and
that be had given him more than tina:
ut times previous the powder he gave
deceased was II dirtyish white /; de-
ceased WAS born in Scotland heard
him say that he was &c years Of age /;
DR.. Ailchison said that it was not the
powder that killed him, but that he
died of heart disease; he died on the
morning of the 9Th | do cot think de-
ceased was \ married man he has II
brother in Elko | gave deceased one
powder about four days previous to
this, about the same quantity, and had
the same appearance as the last one
| gave him ; he had been complaining
Of pain in his side about a week before
he died I know of no property that he
has ; he told me that he had some
shares in the Savage, but do not know
how many.
DR.. J. U. Hall, sworn-l am II prac-
ticiug physician, living IN Gold Hill.
Deceased came to NE on the 18th OF
March, complaining of being indispoSed;
| gave him a prescription aud he called
next day saying that the medicine had
acted well and he felt better. called
on him the next day and found him bro
ken out with the smallpox as | did
not wish smallpox patients, at my spe-
cial request and desire, the ease was
transferred to DR.. Zabriskie for treat
ment; | never saw him afterward my
opinion is that when | attended him he
had no disease OF the chest disease OF
the heart may follow as II secondary
affection to tie smallpox do not
think that one grain of opium would
cause his death.
DR.. c. B. Zabriskie, of Gold Hill, be-
ing sworn, testified to having treated
deceased while sick with ihe smallpox,
and after he Was sufficiently we'll of the
disease to dispense with further ser
vices on his part, his bill was duly pre-
sented and paid. That was the last he
had to do with the case, and he never
saw deceased since.
After due deliberation, the jury gave
in a verdict to the effect that deceased
was a "native of Scotland, aged sc
years, and that according to the tcsti-
mouy produced they were of the
opinion that he died from heart dis
ease