The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-02
tine FATAL SHOOTING.
THE INQUEST.

Deputy Marshal Dayton held a coro-
ner's inquest into the death of Alb
Leong that afternoon. The follow
ing jury was empanelled, with Mr..
VIM. Wond as clerk: A. NJ. Hewitt,
j. ii. Lovejoy, +. Hider, l.. Ahlo,
Lau Chong and Chung Wa.
Henry Dimond, sworn, stated:
The deceased worked for me about
three years. l was awakened from
my sleep last night by loud noise
from my chickens. A few minutes
later my son Edwin came down to
my room and wanted my revolver.
AT first l refused to let him have it.
He said: ~ will only use it to de-
fend myself" i knew that Edwin
was self-possessed and brave, and
that there was no danger, so | let
him have it. then ran to the door,
and screamed fof ALI Lcong to go
and assist. The night was very dark
and 1 think the thief escaped.
heard the pistol shot. L think l
saw the deceased come out of his
room. My son was out in the yard
then. The deceased came up TO
the faucet and made no demonstra-
ton then. did not speak to him.
1t was not over ten minutes when l
found he was shot. The charges
are drawn from the pistol. Only
one was fired. My son brought the
pistol into the house and put it into
drawer. This affair occurred
few minutes after l o'clock. The
charges were drawn from the re-
volver by me this morning. l went
off from the verandah after it was
all over.
Hugo Stangenwald, M. D., sworn,
stated: am physician and sur
geon. was called TO see the de-
ceased about o'clock. heard
the chickens making a noise and the
report of a pistol. A little while
after Edwin Dimond came over,
and it was some time before l could
get him to say anything, he was so
excited. | took my surgical lnstru-
ments and necessary medicines and
came over. The deceased was sit
ting at his room door evidently in
pain. 1 felt his pulse, and then
had him carried carefully to his
bed. Upon examination found
wound in his abdomen. 1t was on
the left side, a little below the ribs,
and about two or three inches from
the navel. There was no hemor-
rhage to speak of, only little ooz-
ing of blood l felt for the ball, but
could not find it. 1t had evidently
entered the abdominal cavity. /
did not turn him over then, as he
was very weak and the pulse was
failing. l administered brandy and
some soothing medicines, and re-
commended that DR.. McGrew should
be sent for, which was done. When
DR.. McGrew arrived, the deceased
had rallied somewhat, so that we
were able to turn him over. We
discovered the ball under the skin
at point about halfway between
the anterior spine of the ilium and
the spinal column, showing the ball
had taken a course upward and out
ward, which was verified by the
post norton examination. AS he
complained of very severe pain,
some more morphine was admins
tered, but this time by hypodermic
injection, as he had commenced to
vomit. This proved effectual in
stopping the pain and vomiting. A
small lump of ice was given him to
quench his thirst. He fell into a
comfortable doze, free from pain for
about half an hour or more. Then
the pulse began to flag or to lose
strength. 1 felt suspicious of in
ternal hemorrhage. A collapse
came on, and he gradually
failed. In the post norton ! found
the wound as described above, going
upward and outward. / cut out
the bullet from under the skin, and
handed it to DR.. McKibbin, who
handed it to Deputy Marshal Day
ton in my presence. The intes-
tines were not wounded. There was
extensive peritonitis or inflammation
of the lining membrane of the abdo-
men. There was considerable eX-
travasation of blood, which seemed
to have come from some smaller
vessels, as no large artery or vein
had been wounded. consider that
the cause of death was hemorrhage,
which the pistol bullet produced.
Robert McKibbin, M. d., sworn,
stated: / assisted DR.. Stangenwald
in the post norton. heard his
evidence in regard to it, and per.
fectly agree with him.
j. ID. Tucker, sworn, stated:
live next door to Mr.. Dimond. My
wife woke me up, and heard
chickens making Il noise. l heard
the report of pistol, and sung out,
sis that you, Dimond?" He said
Eyes" asked him If he wanted
me to come over. lie said Eyes
you might come over" 1 did SO,
and saw the Chinaman lying on the
ground near the water pipe, groan-
ing and rolling all around. Then
Holt came up and went and got g
lantern. The deceased said nothing
until we rolled him over and the