The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-02

erately, but as far as known left no
written word concerning it.
For months he had been seeking sol
ace in intoxicants for falling health
and depressed spirits and doubtless
when he made UP his mind to commit
suicide he was unbalanced.
On Monday afternoon he bought two
bottles of carbolic acid, one at the
Hebron Drug Company's store and one
at HOLSTERS. AT Hobron's he said IN
asking for the acid that he wanted to
dilute it and make a wash for an old
wound. To the clerk at HOLSTERS he
gave the same reason for his purchase
and explained further that he would
use thirty parts of water to one Of
acid.
He went from the latter store to the
Independent office and a compositor
who left there at half past four o'clock
in the afternoon saw him sitting in his
chair as he closed the door. An hour
before this he talked with a. friend.
who noticed his haggard appearance
and commented on it, Wright was
then evidently in the depths from his
manner and looks.
F. J. Testa, owner of the Indepen-
dent. went to his office at II o'clock
Monday night and saw Wright in his
chair. His head was on his breast and
Testa, supposing his editor was drunk
and seeing half bottle of whiskey on
the desk in front of him, paid no heed
to him.
Wright was probably dead then.
When Joseph Rosa, foreman of the In
dependent composing room, went to
work at half past five o'clock yester-
day morning he peeped in the office
window before opening the door and
saw Wright
Happy New Year," shouted Rosa,
for, as did everyone. he liked the man
and wished him well.
Wright did not REPLY and Rosa, who
had expected to hear a courteous,
Same to you,'' looked again He noted
that Wright's face was white, and when
he had raped on the window and still
the figure did not move, Rosa grew
afraid and rushing to Camarinos' place
next door, he begged the clerks there
Ito telephone to the police that he be-
Ilieved there was a dead man in the In
dependent Office.
The policeman came and one near
glance at Wright's face sent him hur-
rying for Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth.
"A coroner's jury was impaneled, the
members of which We're L. D. Timmons,
George Dillingham;. Kirk b. Porter.
Frank Godfrey. John Sullivan and
James Carroll With DIR. Emerson the
jury viewed the body. At $3.50 O'clock
this afternoon an inquest will be held
DIR. Emerson found the lips of the
decedenc burned with carbolic acid and
the empty vials completed the death
certificate. Wright had taken an enor-
nous draught of the fiery poison, but
had apparently been so far gone in
liquor at the time that he had not suf-
fered the usual agonies of a death by
that method.
His countenance was serene and his
easy. natural position in his chair prov
ed that he had been oblivious to pain
from the acid. He had seemingly gone
out of life without q, physical struggle
/ Today he will be buried at Pearl
lCity Cemetery, the body being taken te
its last resting place on the 2:15 O'clock
funeral train.
VIM. Horace Wright was a man OF
education and ability. He was 50 years
cid but when in good health looked not
over 45.. He was an EngIishnan afad
ihad been a barrister in that country