Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-10
LOCAL EVENTS.
Three Inquests Held by the
Coroner.
DROWNED IN SAN PEDRO BAY.
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LOCAL EVENTS.
DROWNED IN SAN PEDRO BAY

vi CatuIody IdbI OOrOD0r M0reOlGh
held two inquests, the first being at Will
mington upon the body of Juan Ramez,
native OF California, 32 years of age,
who died from natural causes about 10
O'Clock on Saturday morning, and the
other at San Pedro upon the body of
Chas. F. Mackie, native of Ireland, %
years Of age, who was accidentally
drowned in San Pedro harbor.
From the testimony adduced in the
Ramez case it was learned that the de.
ceased had suffered from commissions at
frequent intervals prior to his death, and
that about o'clock on Saturday morn.
ing he was attacked by one of these
spells, which was, however, of more
than ordinary duration. He complained
OF severe pain in the region of his
heart. and after suffering intensely for
several hours, during which he went
into commissions six times, he died in the
presence of number of neighbors, who
had been summoned by his wife.
In the San Pedro case, it was shown
that young Mackie had been missing
since January 29th. on the evening Of
which date he was seen by several men
who knew him, in four or five different
saloons, in various stages of fintoxication.
Before going on his spree Mackie had an
nounced his intention Of rowing in skiff
to White Point; but when last seen.
about 6 O'Clock in the evening, he in
formed a man named Charles Baker
that he was going over to Rattlesnake
island. He then had q. flask Of whiskev
in his pocket, which he procured at
Julius Blatt's saloon. Nothing more was
heard of him until February 1st, when it
was rumored that he had not reached
home, but no attention was paid to the
matter until Saturday morning last, when
a corpse was found floating in the ship
yard of the harbof, which on being
dragged ashore, was readily identified as
that of young Mackie. By order of the
Coroner a postmortem examination OF
the body was made by DR.. w. A. We'll
don, when it was found that there was
an abrasion of the skin on the left side
OF the jaw, which, however, was such as
to leave no doubt as to its having been
received before death, and evidently
caused by the deceased having
fallen against rough object.
There were also several other marks,
but these, in all probability, had been re-
ceived while floating about in the water
after death. The physician pronounced
drowning as the cause of death, in his
opinion, and the jury returned a verdict
in accordance iberewith.
On his return from San Pedro yester.
day morning Coroner Meredith was
called upon to make another investiga-
ton, and as soon as possible q Jury was
summoned to the undertaking parlors of
Garrett d Samson, to inquire into the
cause OF the death of Robert Lewis,
native of Connecticut, go years of age,
who died suddenly in his room at the
Occidental lodging-house on Main street
Saturday morning.
1t was shown that the old man had
been sick for about three weeks past,
and that on Friday evening he became
very much worse. His landlady visited
him about eight o'clock in the evening,
with his supper, and found him breath
ing very heavily and apparently suffer-
ing great pain. About three O'Clock in
the morning she again went to see how
he WAS progressing, and found him sit
ting in chair at his bedside. in dying
condition. She called DR.. J. J. Choate,
and laid the sick man upon the floor,
but subsequently with the assistance OF
}. F. Butterfield, who occupied the room
next door, put him to bed again. On the
arrival OF the physician he at once pro-
nounced Lewis's symptoms to be those
of apoplexy, but as the old man was al
ready partially paralizsd on the left side,
there was no hope for his recovery, and
about 4 :15 O'Clock he expired.
The jury on learning the facts returned
e verdict of death from natural causes.