The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-13

from typhoid fever and was 50 seriously
( i'll that we despaired of his life. IL was
necessary to give him hypoaefmic m
/ jecti0ns of stryehnine and ether ana 70
perform artificial respiration to retain
life IN him. I think this had an III eI-
feet There was bruisiHg, I presume OF
the ribs from the sternum Fnd enslIolIn
cartilage. 80 that an abscess followed
or rotting away of the bone
Month of Delirium.
During his illness he was deiiTious
/ for nearly a months time. He was there
until the latter part Of April, when we
were ordered back TO the states. an
which time ne was very much enaclat-
/ ed and anaemic- He appeared very
! peevish and irritable at the time we
embarked, and was all the way across
on the boat He was very hard 10 sat
/ isfy in any respect, and did not appear
himself
There We're TIMES when he was ad-
/ dressed that he did not eaten the
/ meaning. His mind did not seem 10
/ be where Il ought to be. He was very
moody. melancholy and depressed. and
I should not have considered MN or
sound mind at that time. After re-
turning to the states / left him at the
Preside, and his condition was then
about the same as during the voyage
There are three classes OF disease
] sometimes termed post typhoid mental
! alteration: That from shock, Cnat from
( prolonged intOxication. from the spe-
/ cific poisoning and that from anaenla,
/ or general weakness / formed the
opinion that he was suffering from the
| two latter causes.
u saw Captain Mills yesterday at the
county Jail; was with him about an
hour. His condition is not as good phy-
/ sically or mentally as it was when J.
/ first became acquainted with him. lie
/ had a peculiar manner Of staring at me,
and. another thing. he had forgotten
my name and was obliged to ask II.
] He recognized me at once when l went
in. but probably a half hour before
proposed leaving he inquired my name.
! / think the attack Of typhoid is still
affecting him TO some extent
Mills Not Responsible.
Upon Contamination DR.. Wetzel
said:
Captain Mills appearance and his
/ manner Of staring at me and asking me
over and over what / had said, and
/ the forgetting of my name was what
/ led me TO believe that ne had not fully
recovered. I would not have cOnsid-
/ cred Mr.. Mills in April and up 10 May
6, when l last saw him, responsible to
! transact business. He knew what he
was doing, and was competent mental
/ " to take care of himself. Mrs, Mills
/ came to Honolulu some time after Mr..
4 Mills was taken to the hospital. DO
not know just how long. 1t seemed to
do the captain good TO have her there
Il viii say that Mr.. Mills had the
most severe attack Of typhoid, and
that the relapse was worse. and the
1 sequel, or result Of the disease, has
been worse than in any case of typhoid
l ever saw to live. Owing to the Sc
/ verify of the case It was naturally a
very slow cOnvalescenCe,
Il did not hear anything detrimental
TO the character Of Mrs. Mills, either at
/ Honolulu or on the voyage to San
( Francisco, and her conduct was that
of a perfect lady. Her treatment of
/ her husband was that Of a loving wife,
and he appeared to have the mutual
affection of a husband and there never
was under my observation anything
/ indicating any estrangenent between
them I was introduced TO her as the
captains wife, and I took a little more
] interest In her than I would ordinarily,
as I cared for him. / was reasonably
! well acquainted with her"
The deposition Of Chief Justice J. n
Sullivan of the Idaho supreme court,
who said he had known Captain Mills
for the past eight or ten years, was
next read. He said:
During that time ard UP to the time
that he went to Honolulu his reputa-
[ ton was very. good, in fact he was as
/ peaceable and quiet a citizen as 1 ever
/ knew"
The deposition of Thomas E. Kicks
! OF Rexburg. Ida. was then read He
said;
4 hold the position of chairman on
the insane asylum board of the state
of Idaho and president of Fremont
stake Of the Church Of Jesus Christ of
/ Latter-6ay Saints. I have known the
! defendant. Frederick J. Mills. for six
years very intimately. His general
reputation for peace and quietness in
the community where he lived was
4 good"
Attorney Britain Testifes.
The deposition OF Frank S. Britain
was then read. as follows:
Il am an attorney, 81 years old, and
reside in san Francisco. have known
the defendant, Frederick J. Mills, since
about the 10th or 18th day of July, 1898.
I I was associated with him as an Of
1 ficer Of the United States volunteer
engineers from that time until we were
mustered out of the service on May Is
1899. 1 occupied the same table with
him and l was very Intimately assO-
I ciated with him. Lieutenant Mills had
charge Of the water supply, drainage
! and general sanitation of the camps.
His zeal was indefatigable and was
I a frequent comment among the other
I officers of the battalion.
From about the 10Th Of October until
about the Goth Of November. when we
moved to the new barracks. 1 saw
Lieutenant Mills daily, and at some OF
my meals though not all Of them. Dur
/ ing that period I know that lie was
/ really unable to attend to any duties
He ate nothing to speak of, ne could
not sleep, he was pale and emaciated
and evinced every physical sign of a
diseased physical condition.
/ a fever had been consuming hin
| for several days. and from about the
goth to the 22d or 23d of November
1898, until we left Honolulu on oui
return voyage Lieutenant Mills never
left the hospital, except in the latter
part Of our stay there, for few hours
at d time as a supposed eOnvalescent
/ He was suffering from typhoid fever il
its most malignant form
Il did observe a mental effect pro.
! dUced upon him by this illness. During
the latter part of the month Of Octo-
/ Der, 1898, he became silent and morose
speaking but little and with an appar.
ent effort upon any subject outside o.
that of his duties as engineer officer
He appeared carewOrn, and would FIRE
ouently sit perfectly silent for a con
siderable period. and then speak only
upon these subjects. His face woulC
brighten when visitors approached him
but in a few moments ne would be
come distracted.
This condition was continued dur
ing our voyage from Honolulu to Ssl
Francisco, and to the best Of nv rec
objection he did not, from the time h,
was taken to the hospital until I las
saw him, voluntarily open any CONVEX
sation except one, and in conversation
] with fhnea ahc.t1t hin, h - Il -. -.