The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-16
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Domestic InfeIicIfy and the Handy
Pistol.

Yesterday morning about o'clock man
named William Ebling, a sugar boiler al
Kukaiau plantation, Hawaii, who has been
! living for few days past in the house on
the upper corner of Merchant and Alakea
streets, shot himself with small revolver
Of ~ calibre.
He was in the sitting room of the house
when he fired the shot, and then he threw
| the pistol on the floor and reeled to the
| front veranda and fell. His wife, who was
with him at the time, drove to the Station
House and told the officers what had hap
pened, and then went for a Doctor She
found DIR. Grey, who Immediately came to
the house, quickly followed by DIR. Henri
McGrew, who had been called in. They
| ordered the wounded man to be taken in to
one Of the bedrooms of the house. When
found, Ebling was lying on his back on the
veranda, and seemed to be quite free from
pain and conscious. His coat and vest were
off, and on the left side of tho chest was a
spot on his shirt blackened by the burnt
powder of the pistol, and small red spot
showed where the ball had entered his
body.
Upon being taken into the bedroom on
blanket he groaned a little, but was quiet
and composed. His shirt having been cut
off and his chest barred it was found that
the ball had entered his body about three
inches above, and somewhat to the left of
the left nipple. The wound was probed,
and after some trouble the ball was found
to have probably taken an upward course,
and instead of penetrating the chest and
wounding the lungs, had buried itself in the
wall of the chest.
Marshal Soper was on the ground at an
early moment after the occurrence, and
took charge of the pistol which was found
to be loaded, with the exception of one bar
rel that had been recen tly discharged.
The surgeons in attendance gave up their
attempt to find the ball for the present, and
after administering a soothing drauSht they
left him in charge of his wife.
The reason given for this attempt on the
part of Ehling to commit suicide is that he
and his wife quarreled over domestic mat
ters. The trouble is an old one. and last
week the wife declared that she could not,
or would not live with Ebling any longer.
Both parties were at the Station House yes
terday morning complaining Of each other,
and it was not many minutes after they had
reached home again, having temporarily
patched up their quarrel, that the husband
attempted to kill himself At last accounts
there was no immediate danger that the
wound would prove fatal.
Mrs. Ebeling called at the ADVERTISER
Office last night with reference to a state
ment that appeared in the Bulletins 50 re-
port of the shooting. She said that she
never was on Kauai in her life; that she
had had no trouble with her husband on
Hawaii; that she left that place with his
full consent, because there was no house in
which she could live; and that the cause of
her trouble with her husband was letters
regarding herself written to him from Homo
lulu, which she has in her possession. Her
husband was in a somewhat precarious
state, she further said, at the time of her
visit.