The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-04-06
CHASTITY FIND.
Decomposed Body OF a
Stranger.
Killed Himself al The yilla"-- Body
Identified as That Of E. Per-
outka OF Minnesota,
trrom Wednesday patty.

Frank pouGtka scandinavian,
was found dead ia his room az the VIVA
ON Fort street yesterday about noon.
Ills death was the result of pistol
shot presumably with suicidal intent as
from the position OF the body When
round IL appeared that deliberate prep
arations had been made by deceased be
fore firing the fatal shot The body
WAS fully dressed and stretched out ON
81 floor with a towel evenly folded ana
laid under the head a thirty-two
Galore Allen a Hopkins revolver with
one chamber discharged was found by
the dead mans side.
Peroutka came here from the Coast
in the Mariposa In January. lie went
first to the California hotel and later
to the Queen hotel. He took up his last
a bode on March 2nd when he paid his
rent 10 the End of the present month.
The last time he was seen alive was
on Thursday OF last week when he
complained of feeling Ill. On Friday
morning the chambermaid at the Villa
ATTEMPTED to enter Peroutka's room but
found the door locked Since then
there had been a very foul smell no
ticed in the neighborhood of the locked
room and f. NJ. Brown, who has the
room next TO where the body was
found, broke open the locked door and
discovered the body. 1t was very badly
decomposed and had apparently been
dead four or five days.
The police were notified and Deputy
Marshal Chillingworth went to the
scene and had the body removed to the
morgue. Nothing in the room was dis
turbed. AS the bed had not been slept
on it is thought that the suicide took
place on Thursday night. Mrs Betters.
who keeps the Villa, had not made any
attempt to enter the room when she
found 1t locked as she thought the
lodger was out OF town.
The following jury were impanelled
and taken to view the remains: Sam
Kubey, j. II. Schnack, G.. l.. Clement,
FIR. Goudie, w. e. Biyens and Charles
Hyde. The inquest will be held to-
day at 2 p. m. at the Deputy Marshals
Office.
l.. NJ. Presnal, who arrived here on
the Mariposa along with Peroutka, says
that the man had $3.50 with him when
he arrived. He had brought the money
with him in bills and on exhibiting 1t
had been told it would be safer to bank
it. He took the money and going out
was gone some time. On returning he
stated that he had distributed the mon
ey among the three banks. With re-
gard to the money, he stated that he
had carried it on his person to save eX-
change.
During various conversations had
with Presnal the suicide stated that he
was a shoemaker by occupation; that
he had wife and daughter in Winona,
Minnesota, whom he wanted to bring
out here; that he had sold out a gener-
al store he had been conducting and
had come here to invest the proceeds.
Mr.. Presnal also says that Peroutka
said in answer to a question as to his
parentage, that he was Scandinavian
and a naturalized American. He was
very much afraid OF the plague and
had met with some loss in an invest
ment in sugar stock made soon after
arriving here.
Among Peroutka's effects were some
very fine clothes and a considerable
amount of jewelry. He was man who
always appeared well and looked like
a man of money. He was between 40
and so years of age.