The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-27
PRICE FIVE CENYQ.

am employed by the Hebron Drug
company. Was on duty today | have
seen the body of the deceased down
here at the station house this evening
saw him at the Hebron store between
and o'clock this afternoon. He
asked me for fifty cents worth of car
bolic acid and ! gave ii to him. That
bottle tEXhibiD looks like the one I
gave him-a four ounce bottle. 1t was
full when | gave it TO him and there is
about one-third of ii left now and the
remainder is 10 the best of my knowf-
edge and belief carbolic acid. 1t is
deadly poison About half an ounce or
an ounce is sufficient to kill a person.
The bottle which gave him contained
four ounces The man was perfectly
sober when he came into the store
that is, to all appearances. Carbolic
acid is sold at the store nearly every
day. | told him it wou,d kill him If
he drank it.
Mrs. A. Schmeden-I am Mrs
Schneider. the wife of A. Schneider.
saw my husband out at Waikiki about
2 O'Clock. / came home first and he
came home afterwards. l got home
about 4:30 and he got home about 5
O'Clock. He came in and mixed up
something in glass and drank it.
This morning he tried to take it, but
L i
it away from him. This evening after
he took the first dose he asked for
some water, and Rev. S. E. Bishop,
being there at the time, handed him a
glass of water. When he got the water
he put some more of the stuff in the
water and tried to drink it, but DIR.
| Bishop knocked it out of his hand.
| Then he walked from the house. and
while going out of the yard told Dr.
| Bishop that he was going down town to
get some more stuff which could not
be knocked out of his hand. I then
tried to follow him but could not catch
sight of him. l notified the police and
they told me that they would send UP
some officers. When l came back to
ask at the station house if he had been
arrested they told me he was dead. He
| had been arrested and a Portuguese
hackman had brought him home did
not see this bottle with the carbOlic
acid at all. 1t was something else al
| together that he took. | did not see
anything that took place when the Of
| Ificers were up there, because l was
| down town. That is his handwriting
in that letter marked Exhibit 3.
| NJ. S. Perry am hackman. T
drove A. Schneider about 4:3O this af--
ternOon from the corner OF King and
Nuuann streets TO the premises of Rev
). e. Bishop On School street He had
been drinking, but was not drunk. We
stopped at the Louvre saloon and he
treated. He asked Harry Juen how
much he owed him and Juen said that
| it was a dollar. Schneider then told
him that if he did not die that night
he would pay him tomorrow. He want
ed to stop at the Commercial saloon to
get bottle of whisky, but / told him
oil
went on and when we got near the
gate he gave me note written in Ger
man which he wished me to keep and
give to him tomorrow. He asked me
to keep it to myself and not show it to
anyone. When he came to get into my
hack | could not say whether he came
up Nuuanu or King street That note
written in German and marked Exhibit
B is the note Schneider gave to me and
which | gave to the coroner
Mrs. L. NJ Cole-I live in School
street and l know Mr.. and Mrs. Schme-
den. | saw Mr.. Schneider this after
noon at my place. 1t was about 10
minutes to o'clock / was in the
kitchen when Mrs. Schneider called to
me and said that Mr.. Schneider had
taken poison. She had a glass in her
hand and she said This is what he has
taken. She then handed me the glass.
did not know what ii was anu so put
it aside and tCld her to call doctor.
Inc glass cor aimed some red liquid. [
saw Mr.. Schneider running around and
crying and moaning and some stuff
was running out Of his mouth. asked
him what was the matter and he said
that he had taken poison. | asked him
why he wanted to do such thing and
he said that Mrs. Schneider wanted
him to do it and SO he did it, He then
threw himself on the grass, moaning
and saying that by II O'Clock all would
be over. Just them Rev. S. E. Bishop
came and began talking to him and i
went away and did not see him again
till he came into the kitchen ana
handed me the key. | thanked him
Just then the police came and he asked
me for the key again. / gave 1t TO
him, as he said he wanted to change
his clothing While going towards the
door he took bottle out OF MS
pocket and drank about half OF the
contents. when the police officer
knocked it out of his hand. / had
called 0ut that Schneider was taking
apoison. and the officer grappled with
him and knocked the bottle out of his
hand and made him spit out some OF
the fluid / mixed some mustard with
warm water, but he would not take it.
He fell on the Kitchen veranda and a
little while later was dead. He and his
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