The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-28
~ AM HAPPY N0W.'
So Saying, Amos Ii. Smith SWALLOWS
Twenty-four Grains of Morphine
With Suicidal Intent.
Conflicting Testimony Regarding Physi-
cians-PoisOn Sold to Everybody
Who Asks for 1t.

| Amos r.. Smith, a horse trader rs years of
aye committed suicide last evening by taking
| poison. No cause for the act is known. HIS
| body will be buried this afternoon. Following
is the testimony adduced during the inquest,
| conducted by Justice Anton Adam:
| Arthur J. Tisdale testified: | was partner
! If Smiths. He and had been trading horses
| in Mexico. He came here eight or nine days
ayo from Laredo. did not see him after he
| left Laredo until | arrived here yesterday. He
WAS to all appearances, gin good health and
| spirits During the day he sold some Oh horses
| to Mr. Jennings. He was paid Tor Ihe horses'
| | have the CHI ok, which was drawn in my name,
amounting to SI,537. So During the day we
arranged that he should 20 10 Mexico to buy
| some more stock ! noticed that he had oeen
drinking some Intoxicating liquor and asked
| him not to drink any more. Inc deceased mas
| n brother He is in the Panhandle with the
| Dominion company range. deceased Is
native of Alabama and aNOut Is years OF age;
s r. Trotter testified: i saw deceased in the
corner saloon known as the Stock Exchange
back of the Hord hotel, about i:N o clock yes
tprday He said, Lets take a drink Then
he put his hand on my shoulder ana SAID:
.Trotter, have not always been honest?
replied, "Yes, so far as know and he then
said, ''1rotter, you will go to my funeral to-
morrow" He added, You may think am
Joking, but am in earnest" He then walled
10 the glass and looked in it. smiled and put his
and will do what | please with it," | said
smith, you are too good man TO talk that
way" lie replied, That is all right; you will
see" and laughed. ! staid there and talked a
few minutes and then started towards the
stock yard. Smith came across the street and
haieO me. He threw a bottle up 10 his mouth
and swallowed portion OF the contents. l
grabbed him as quickly as could, taking the
bottle out OF his hands, and exclaimed, Oh,
God, Smith What are you dong! He re-
piled. II am happy now; have got my dose,
and said he wanted TO lay down. We started
to the hotel, but turned and went to Mrs.
Porters "a boarding house on Military plaza.
He laid down on a bed and Mr.. Haines went
for a doctor. Smith then sat up in bed and
said, "You are all fools, I've got you both
scared to death right now; | took that stun in
my mouth, but spit 1t out. He then got up
and we went with hun TO the Farmers Home
NO. Ii, South Flores street.. He asked us,
while going up the street, not to
give this away ana have everybody talking
about it. He laid down at the Farmers Home
and pulled his boots of. supper was brought
to him and he ate piece of pickle and a pi zee
of beef as large as my four fingers, and then
laid down again. BY this time the doctor had
not come and went for him myself. | saw
DR.. King and told him there was mighty
sick man who wanted TO see him. He replied
that another man had been there a while ago
and had got another doctor to go. Mr. Tisdaie
tried 10 get the doctor TO go up and Price
called and said he would pay all expenses
Then we all went up. One doctor put his hand
on Smith and said he was dead. Another put
his hand on Smiths pulse and said he was not
dead They worked his arms and put their
ears down 10 his breast anu lllCl bOIH Sdlu Hc
was dead.
d, H. Haines testified | went into Orynski's
drug store with the bottle and asked
| there how much was out of that bottle
Someone told me not to fool around with the
bottle; that if anyone had got any out of it a
| that a doctor had better be procured. doc
| tor being present handed him the bottle and
| he handed it TO OrynSki or his clerk. ! asked
! the doctor If he would not attend the case. He
| replied he had an engagement. Directly after
| Doctor King and another doctor stopped in.
| King asked the Othe- doctor CITY Physician
| BraunnageD if he could not go, who asb ed if it
| was a city case. He was told no. King re-
| marked there was not much money in that kind
| of a case. When ] saw ] could not get them to
| 30 went and got Mr.. Price and Mr.. Tsdale
| to yet them to 20.
| DR.. George Couples testified A man don't
| know came to OrynSkis drug store. He had a
| phial of mOrphia. This stranger stated that a
| man named Smith mad taken dose. had the
contents of the phial weighed and found that
about "A grains had been taken from it. He did
| not then request that any one should go TO see
| the deceased. Another man called DR.. King
and myself to see Smith, whom we found dead.
| Robert IIunstOck, an employee of Mr.. l..
Orynski. druggist, testified Yesterday even
ing about O'Clock sold bottle Of mOrphia.
We sell pOsOns TO anybody and everybody who
applies for them, there being no law in this
State against it.