The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-09


An adjourned inquest was held last Monday on
the body of Kamaile, who died at KamoiIiili on
the 18th October last, the delay having been
caused by the work of DIR. Stangenwald, analyti-
cal chemist.
TIL following evidence was taken:
Haleaka (w) sworn, stated-On the 10Th Octo-
Der / went to the house of the deceased. Ano-
ther woman came after l got there. When 1
arrived there, the deceased was lying down
quietly; his hands were shaking. Hama his wife,
gave him some water to drink. She put it in
her own mouth first, and then squirted it into
the mouth of her husband. Some time after
that, he had spasms his head, body and feet
jerking violently. The deceased appeared very
hot after the spasm he p%erspired profuselv. He
said ''wait, wait At that time Kamalu came
in and asked him how he was, and he said 81
am dead" Kamalu left before the man died.
No one else came before he died. Hama
and another native woman left the
house after Kamaili died. They did not say
wash. She took with her clothes made into a
bundle. Hama was away about an hour. When
she came back Kamaile was dead. Kukepoo told
her not to cry now. He said, wait till night and
we will cry then.'' A cat died near
the house whilst Hama was sitting there. A dog
had spasms at the door of the house. Hama was
there. The dog died in another house. 1t was
an hour after the death that kukepoo went away.
Hama left quarter of an hour after him. Deceased
had light spasms in my presence at first, and
afterwards had q powerful spasm and died. His
mind appeared to he all right to the end. 1 and
my husband were the first who visited the de-
ceased when in spasms. Saw nothing there but
the calabash of deceased and a plate. The de-
ceased was blind. | went there at seven O'Clock
in the morning; he died about IL o'clock. The
deceased was in good health the evening before.
By n juror-T chewed the blossom of a lily,
put it in water, and gave it to the deceased. 1t
did not do any good. L gave it to him on ac-
count of his having spasms. 1t is a medicine
commonly used amongst natives, sometimes
causes vomiting.
N. b. Emerson, sworn-I am a physician.
On 18th October saw Kamaile. He was dead.
1t was nearly 4 O'Clock in the afternoon. /
made a pOst-mortem examination. Found no
external injuries to the body Lungs congested,
showed signs of pleuTisy. Heart showed no
disease that would cause death. In the abdo-
men l found nothing to cause death. l put the
spleen and liver into a clean glass jar, and
brought them to Honolulu and delivered them
to DR.. S~tangenwald that day. He (Dr. S. OBJ
iected that 1 had not brought the abdominal
parts. l returned next day and brought more
of the abdomen These were also put into
glass jars and given to DIR. S~tangenwald. L
also opened the body of the dog that was lying
dead in front of the house, and put his intestines
into another glass jar. / got a piece of the
cats lntestines and gave the lot over to DIR.
Stangenwald.
By DR.. Stangenwald-The heart was not full.
The blood was dark but not coagulated. No symp-
toms in the brain. The body was some what
rigid. Deceased was nearly 90 years of age.
DR.. Sta~ngenwald, sworn-I am a genealogical
chemist and physician. CHe testified to re-
ceiving from DIR. Emerson one earthen jar
closed, and a small bundle wrapped in paper.)
Mr.. Dayton came with DR.. Emerson to my
office and requested to have the contents of the
jars and paper analysed to see if they contained
poison. | have examined the contents of the
earthen jar which contained the human
stomach, and a portion of liver together with a
large quantity of a pasty, gluey and bloody fluid.
The stomach had burst. L have kept the other jars
in a separate house in order to prevent the mix
ing of the contents of the jars. For the same
reason, 1 have not thoroughly examined the por-
tons of the dog and cat, though 1 have placed
them in a position to preserve them for further
investigation so that the work may be entirely
separate. On examining the human stomach, /
found it in a deadly poison. / likewise found
1t in the liver by a separate analysis and also in
the spleen, and in a portion in the small intestines.
1 I'M still at work with the fluid contents of the
jar. In the stomach of the dog 1 have found a
number of pieces of plants, and woody fibre, bark
and sticks. produced in Court The poison
which l have separated is not yet perfectly pure,
although some crystals have commenced to form
1t is of an extreme bitterness. Concentrated parts
of the poison shown to the jury by means of a
microscope.
The doctor gave further detailed technical
after which the jury retired and re-
turned a verdict of died from poison admins
tered by some person or persons unknown"