Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-08-21
Death Of Captain Beane.

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on the Morris vineyard tract, nea
Washington street. On Monda,
Captain Beane had been one Of th,
Masonic excursion party to Ana
helm and seemed to be in the bes
of spirits throughout the day. Al
soon as the news reached the cit,
Coroner Harmon, accompanied b.
DR.. Richardson and other friends o
the deceased, visited the house
Deceased was lying on his bed al
though quietly sleeping. No evi-
dences Of struggle were apparen
anywhere. A volume of Shak
speare, opened at the fourth act
fourth scene, of Hamlet-the scene
in which the melancholy Dan,
meets a detachment of the army o
Norway under Captain Frontibras
After the officers of the army have
left him, Hamlet repeats a solil
oquy, commencing as follows:
Hamlet-How al occasions do inform
And spur my dull revenge! What is 9
man,
II his chief good and market of his ii m,
Be but to sleep and feed? beast, nc
more.
A slip of paper was also found
upon which was written, "Sleep.
ing, General. Bless you" This is
supposed to have been addressed tc
his friend, General John M. Bald
win, who WAS expected to arrive
from the East, by the train from
San Francisco, yesterday after.
noon.
THE INQUEST.
The remains were brought to the
unde derthking rooms of Il. Neitzke
d Co., where the following jury
was empanneled and an inquest
commenced last evening: M. Nor
ris, ]. Cohen, John Curtis, David
Main, e. Roberts, John Schaeffer,
and e. A. Owen.
The first witness was A. J. King,
who testified that deceased was
born in the State of Maine. Age
about SO years. Knows nothing
mere.
DR.. N. p. Richardson testified:
Ihave known deceased nine years.
l heard he was dead, went to his
residence with DR.. Hannon,
found him dead. Saw a
piece of paper Shown to
jury, on which was written,
"Sleeping, General. Bless you."
Suppose 1t meant General Bald
win, which indicates that he was
aware of his approaching end,
which was probably by his own
hands. Examined the body, it
was still warm; indicated it was
dead but short time, yet the dis
cOloration of the skin about the
neck and face, with foaming from
the mouth, indicated the effects of
a narcotic. My impression is that
deceased came to his death from an
overdose of morphine. l went to
the residence of deceased at about
$3.50 o'clock to-day.
John J. Reynolds, sworn. | was
acquainted with deceased. l last
saw him go into his house last
night at about 10 o'clock. L had
been with him a little over an
hour previously. took him from
Pearson's to Dave Waldron's, and
from there to his house; stopped
at Waidron's two or three minutes,
where he took glass of beer.
then started and took him to his
own house. We talked about half
all hour, when he went into his
house. | waited till / heard him
shut the door behind him. (saw
some MeXicans at their own house
opposite. l did not notice any
thing peculiar about him. / have
been taking him home about o
year. This was occasionally; that
is, when he missed the car. He
was never incapacitatcd from GO
Ing to his home without assist
ance, and was not inebriated the
last time l saw him. l acted mere
ly as his genera! hackman.
David V. Waldron sworn: AS
near as l remember, at 8 O'Clock
Mr.. Stout, Superintendent of the
Main street railway, came to my
house. l was in conversation with
Mr.. Peter Thompson, deceased's
ultimate friend. Mr.. Stout called
me one side and told me Captain
Beane was dead. Immediately 1
went to Mr.. Thompson and told
him the Captain was dead. Mr..
Stout did not want me to tell him,
but 1 told Mr.. Stout that Mr..
Thompson was one of Captain
Beane's intimate friends, and that
1 must tell him, which l did. l
proposed then to Mr.. Stout and
Mr.. Thompson that we should pro-
ceed to his house and break it
open, if necessary, to be sure
that he was dead, before we
made any report, which we did.
We proceeded to the house of Cap
tain Beane, found one of the car
drivers, Mr.. Butler, at the door.
proposed to break the door open. 1t
was locked, and Mr.. Butler broke
the corner out of q glass in the
door, and reached his hand in to
turn the key, and opened the door
A bunch of Keys were hanging in the
door, we saw them. l think l was
the first person who entered the
house. AS went in all Of the bal.
ance followed, who were as follows;
Mr.. Stout, Mr.. Butler, Mr.. p,
Thnmpson,a and Mr.. Duncan George,
of Wells-Fargo. We all put our
hands upon him, and pronounced
him dead. / at that time discov.
cred this piece of paper here, and q
| wallet with Masonic emblems. ]
proposed and did put this paper
the wallet and Keystone into my
pocket. This was objected to, and
l replaced them as near as found
them as possible, and proceeded
then to town for the Coroner ant
DR.. Richardson. There were nc
papers discovered. DR.. Hannor
found the paper. There were other
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