The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-24
IT is STILL A MYSTERY
Coroner Investigates the Death
of Daniel Agoa.
EFFECTS OF AN INJURY
Witnesses Were Unable to Indicate How
1t Was Received Complained
OF a Pain in His
Side.

| Coroner Julien held an inquest yes
| terday to investigate the death of Dan
lei Agoa, who died very suddenly on
Monday under peculiar circumstances,
but the inquiry did not serve to dispel
| the mystery surrounding the case. 1t
was clearly established that Agoa died
| from the effects of an injury which
produced rupture of a blood vessel,
but nothing could be learned to show
how the man received that injury.
Agoa was troubled with Bright's dis
ease and was ailing from that last
Sunday. He sent for DIR. MacNevin,
who sent him prescription. He felt
| so badly that night that he could not
sleep and got up and left his room in
the middle Of the night. He had not.
| up to that time, complained of any
pain in his side. He spent the night at
the saloon Of Cain Connors, in North
| Main street. By the examination Of
| several witnesses who saw the man at
the saloon from the time he entered
| It till morning it was shown that he
| did not complain Of any trouble with
his side till or o'clock on the morn
| ing Of Monday, when he made men
| ton that he had serious pain in the
| side and he was soon in bad condi-
ton, yet all of these witnesses swore
that nothing happened while Agoa was
in the saloon by which he could have
received an injury. DR.. MacNevin tes-
tilted to seeing the man soon after
death and to finding bruise on the
side which looked as though it had
been caused by kick, that blood
vessel had been ruptured and that
death undoubtedly resulted from the
! 1pIf hCo r+~1yy =
| be ELECTED from the witnesses to show
what caused it.
Whether the man got into a fight
and was kicked or whether he rece.v-
| ed the injury to his side by falling,
or how he did get it, was all left to
conjecture.
| 1t is the general impression that
Agoa, who was of a rather quarrel
some nature when drinking. got into
| trouble of some sort and was kicked
| D. M. G. MacNevin testified that last
| Sunday afternoon he was sent for to at
| tend Agoa, but could not go at that
time. The messenger thought a pre-
| scr1ption would serve, and one was Civ
en-. The next day witness got hurry
call, and reached Agoa within 20 min
utes, only to find him dead DR.. Mac
Nevin was informed that Agoa got up
Sunday evening and went out to sa-
loon, where he had several drinks, and
when he returned he complained of
pain in his side. Witness examined the
side, and found discoloration, I'M
doubtedly caused by bruise which, in
the judgment of the witness, ruptured
blood vessel and produced death. Wit
ness opinion had been later strength
ened by the statement of Undertaken
Duggan that he opened the body at the
place where the bruise appeared, and
had removed large clot of blood. IT,
SphraiharA N
Agoa, stated that deceased got up at
2 O'Clock Sunday night and said he could
not sleep. He said he would go out.
Witness advised him not to, but he
went. AT that time he did not COM
plain of any pain in the side. The old
man was brought back in hack the
next forenoon, and he then complained
of the pain in his side. He asked wit
ness to go for a doctor, and witness
went for DR.. MacNevin, but did not
find him in, and did not succeed in get
ting him till o'clock in the afternoon.
By the time DR.. MacNevin arrived
Agoa was dead. Agoa was not drunk
when he left his room Sunday night, nor
was he when brought home the next
morning.
Police Officer J. c.. Byrnes said he
was called Monday morning about 8
o'clock to see a man in Cain Con-
nors' saloon, in North Main street, who
Y.
Witness supposed he was drunk at first,
but the saloonkeeper did not think So
Something had to be done, so witness
called a wagon and took Agoa to the
city Jail There he learned the mans
identity and sent him home in a hack
Witness did not make any inquiry at
the saloon to ascertain how Agoa was
injured, as he did not at that time know
what allied him. Witness did see some
blood on the floor, and inquired of Con-
nors II ne had had a fight in the place,
ana received the reply: "Oh, that's
nothing. That was there last night
Chief of Police Lavell told of inqur-
ing INTO the case. He had been inform
ed that Agoa went into the saloon of
cain Connors about o'clock Mon
day morning, and complained of hay
ing pain in his side He asked for
something to relieve his pain, and was
given a drink of some kind About an
hour later an officer had been called to
take care of Agoa. The witness was
unable to learn anything of Aeoa,s
movements prior to the time he was
said to have arrived at the saloon
Jerry Lyons, bartender at Cain
Connors saloon, said Agoa came to the
saloon between II and ~ o'clock, Satur
day night, and was still there when he
Ohe witness) went off shift at o'clock
Sunday morning. He took a few drinks
druing the night, but was not drunk |
He commenced to complain of pain in |
his side about 6 O'Clock Monday morn |
ing, and it was so severe he could hard |
ly walk
Coroner Julien asked: WAS there |
any trouble in that saloon that night
He replied that there was not.
WAS there any wrestling or fooling
going on?" asked the coroner.
There was once between a man nam
ed Con Sullivan and another man.
Describe that
'.Oh, I guess they wanted to make a
little bother"
Continuing, the witness stated that
Agoa had no trouble at all in the sa-
LOOM and could not have received his
injury there