The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-23

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make him sleep. He slept about all of
Wednesday. occasionally waking up. |
gave him soup twice during the day.
First time he ate the whole of it, but the
second time he took about a third. Some
time during Wednesday he told me that
he had taken some more of the same
kind of medicine as that he used on
Tuesday night. The bottle containing
the medicine was on a stand alongside
Mr.. Engelhardt's bed. He got out OF
bed and helped himself to this medi-
cine, and on Thursday he had taken all
the two bottles contained. On that
same day he asked me to assist him IN
finding another bottle Of medicine SINH
lar to the bottles he had already dis
posed of, making three bottles in all.
little before a. IN. on Friday he woke
I'D, and then l asked him if he would
not like to eat something. He said:
Yes, I would like to have four or five
soft boiled eggs. I went to look for the
gardener, Manuel, SO as to have him go
after some eggs. I went back to MIR.
Engelhardt after Manuel returned with
the eggs, and was frightened at the way
in which Mr.. Engelhardt was breathing
and the way he looked. Immediately
told Manuel to telephone for the doctor
He tried, but could get no answer, SO he
went for the doctor. The latter came,
and on examining Mr.. Engelhardt, said
of
The doctor tried to get him to take hot
coffee, but he could not swallow it. Mr..
Engelhardt had been sleeping most OF
the time from Tuesday night. When
[ got the bottle from under the wash
stand in the bedroom | saw that it was
marked poison, and begged him not to
take any of it. He told me he knew
what he was doing, and that
if he did not take that he would have to
drink two bottles of whisky in the place
of it. On Thursday night he drank the
contents of the bottle I found in his bed
room, and upon my asking him on Fri
day morning if he had drank all that he
said Eyes that won't do me any harm"
Mr.. Engelhardt died on Friday, Febru-
airy 18th, at II 80 a. M. He had his
medicine before l went to his house.
DR.. Miner has never to my knowl-
edge prescribed any medicine for
Engelhardt. When he came back on
Tuesday he. was very much under the
influence of liquor. don't know of Mr..
Engelhardt taking any medicine, only
once when he said he took some
to make him sleep. This was the day
before his birthday There is another
bottle in the house marked the same as
the one that DR.. Miner took away to
send to the drug store. Mr.. Engelhardt
told me to look in the washstand to find
the bottle, and that bottle DR.. Miner
sent away to the drug store.
Manuel Enos Silva, sworn, stated: l
have been for this week the gardener for
Mr.. Engelhardt. I commenced on the
9Th instant, and also attended at the
store. Have been with him steady
since August 25, 1886. l have often
been to the drug store for Mr.. Engel-
hardt and got salves, lotions and ban
dages for his leg, but never knew any
thing of his sending me for things more
than those mentioned. knew he had
poison in the house, but did not know
what he used it for. Upon taking an &C
count of what was in the house on the
morning of February 18th l found a
number of bottles marked poison. Think
there were somewhere near ten, some
quarter full, some half full, and most
of them empty. There was lots of pills
and other kinds of medicines and salves.
have twice got bottles from HOLSTERS
drug store, but did not know what they
contained. I do not know of Mr.. Engel-
hardt ever taking any medicine.
The jury, after considering the evil
dence, returned the following verdict:
"That the said George Engelhardt came
to his death by an overdose of laudanum
taken with the intent to soothe pain, but
which caused death on Friday, February
II, 1885,"