The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-04-17

The above is the result of the efforts
of a 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 a certainty that the
affair was entirely accidental.
Chang Leong was the name of the
man who did the poisoning. About
$50 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 a herb from which he could make
a drink that would cool their blood.
In this latter effort he succeeded adj
mirably, as the sequel showed, for he
effectuaIIy 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. DR.. 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
strongly to the fact that the poison was
belladonna. A post norton exami-
nation was held on the body of one
of the men. The contents of the
stomach will be analysed 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, but were only allowed |
to make the deadly tea there as a
matter of accommodation. 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 |
q brother in.law of 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 at
which the poisoning occurred.
One of the Cinnamon said that the
drink was called, in Chinese, feechie,
and was a very good medicine if used
n the right way.
An eye witness to the affair of Sat
Irday said that the man who had
lone the cooking had taken the wrong
herbs by mistake. At any rate, the
Chinese in that vicinity will be very
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
lot believe that he was dead. They
wanted to try some of their Chinese
emedies aud insisted on trying to
make him swallow some sleeps
Hood, which they claimed would re-
him. Before they could get
t, however, it became evident, even
o them, that the man had passed be-
ond human aid.