The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-16

The above is the result of the efforts
of newly arrived Chinaman TO make
cooling drink for six of his country
men. AS he himself was the first one
to die, it is almost certainty that the
affair was entirely accidental.
Chang Leong was the name of the
man who did the poisoning. About
2:30 o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
number of celestials were gathered in
the Kwong Hip Lung store on Hotel
street. The day was a hot one, and
Leong, who has only been in this
country for three weeks, said that he
had herb from which he could make
drink that would cool their blood.
In this latter effort he succeeded adj
mirably, as the sequel showed, for he
effectually cooled the blood of three
men, and nearly killed four more.
Within an hour after Leong had
made and drank his preparation, he
was dead. In the meantime the others
were in great agony. A Chinese doc
tor had been called, but did no good
to the suffering men. DIR. f. l..
Miner was sent for and arrived
on the scene at Ais. When he arrived
one of the men, Chang Leong, was
| already dead. Another, c. Jock Kim,
died within fifteen minutes of the
| doctors arrival, in spite of all efforts
| to save him. Still another, Chong
| See, was nearly dead, and died later
! at the hospital. All the others were
| in various degrees of illness, but,
| thanks to the attention they received,
| they recovered and were nearly well
| yesterday.
| The man that was taken TO the
| hospital was, strange to say, attacked,
soon after his arrival there, with all
| the symptoms of active hydrophobia.
| He fOamed at the mouth and exhibit
| ed other symptoms of that dread
! disease. This, coupled with the fact
| that the recovered mems description
| of the herb used, and the symptoms
noticed on the poisoned men, points
f, strongly to the fact that the poison was
| belladonna. A post mortem exami-
nation was held on the body of one
! of the men. The contents of the
| stomach will be analyZed today.
| At the Kwong Hip Lung store the
| Cinnamon in charge were very reti-
cent in speaking of the matter. They
/ allege that none Of the men had
| been in the city for more than
| three weeks, and that they had
| no connection whatever with the
! establishment, bat were only allowed
| to make the deadly tea there as
| matter OF accom- modation. The first
part of this story is disproved by the
| fact that one of the men who recov-
cred, G.. Apoi, is a half Hawaiian and
a brotherin-law of a clerk in the Hol-
| lister Drug Company's store. Several
| of the others are also said to be old
| residents. Two of them, at least, are
| believed to be employees of the store ut
| which the poisoning occurred.
| One of the Cinnamon said that the
| drink was called, in Chinese, feechic,
and was very good medicine if used
in the right way.
An eye witness 20 the affair of Sat
| urday said that the man who had
done the cooking had taken the wrong
herbs by mistake. At any rate, the
careful hereafter how they imbibe
strange drinks.
After DR.. Miner arrived, and just
after the second man had died, the
Cinnamon gathered around and would
not believe that he was dead. They
wanted to try some of their Chinese
remedies aud insisted on trying to
make him swallow some sleeps
blood, which they claimed would re-
suscitate him. Before they could get
ii, however, it became evident, even
to them, that the man had passed be-
yond human aid.