The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-23
SAILORS DEATH
Is MYSTERIOUS
A Chemical Examination OF
Stomach and Blood Show
Suffocation.

1t now appears that the man VINO
was found dead in bed at the Sailors
Home came to his end through poison.
There were no signs that the man had
died in any other way tnan through
apoplexy or heart disease until a post
mortem examination was made. In the
event of it's being proved that death
was due to poisoning, the police Will
have a job on their hands in which
considerable mystery will figure.
| 1t has developed that the man an
swers the description OF one ]. Sham.
an, who arrived here on the Miowera
/ from Canada the other day.
The coroner's jury in the case met
Yesterday at noon, but was unable to
! finish, as DIR. Shorey has not vet had
time to complete his examination for
| poisons DR.. Pratt has stated that the
| heart of the dead man showed signs
/ of disease, although not sufficiently SO
| to make it, at all certain that he, died
| as the result of trouble with his heart.
| Some traces of poison were found,
and DIR. Shoreyis engaged in trying to
find what the poison was. A man by
/ the name of E. L. Straut has testified
/ to having had conversation with man
on the Miowera who is said to be the
imam who went to the Sailors Home
and died there. The deceased told
Straut that he. had a brother connect
ed with one of the newspapers in Hilo,
and that he was going to Hilo on the
next steamer. He told the purser OF
the Miowera that he was sailor
sailor in bunk near Shaanan, while
he was at the Sailors Home, says thai
he heard the man groan several times
only a few hours .pe1ofe ne was Ioun-
dead.
CAPTAIN Bray testified that the mar
arrived at the home between I and
o'clock on Sunday afternoon and en-
) gagged a room, paying for 1T two days
in advance and that he thinks tina
, | he gave his name as Samuel He wa:
not sure about the name. The maj
, did not register. and he only asked hin
! his name out of curiosity. Straut, tn
dead mans fellow passenger on th'
Miowera, said that Shaanan had tolt
2 him that he was troubled with near
? disease, and that recently his troupi
: | had bothered him a great. deal. A
, one time ON the voyage down he wa
compelled to call upon one of the pas
sengers for assistance in order to ge
= to the portfolio for air He was rer,
weak after this. and appeared so TO
! the rema inder- of the trip to port. Tn
s coroner's jury meets again tomorrow
q when it is expected that DR.. Shore,
will have completed his examination Q
the contents of the stomach OF tn
: T. Chemist -shorey-stated yesterday tina
S from the appearance of the stomach
4 there had evidently been an irritan
r poison in it, for it was scanned wher
:, the ridges had contracted, leaving tn
? | spaces between clear and almost in
! normal condition. When the content
I were removed from the stomach thes
x irritated ridges were red; now they ar
e black This gave him the impressio
a instantly that something besides hear
: disease was responsible for the man
@ death.
: One of the strangest of the phenome
u ma connected with the sailors mysterl
. Gus demise is the. condition of hi
u blood During the post-mortem, whe
r the skull was opened. the blood wa
T almost in the condition of that foun
e in living man. When the physician
q laid. him upon the slab his face wa
dark and purplish, and with every in
dication of death having ensued fror
suffocation. AS the process of remoy
r ing the skull was being performed, an
e the blood ran from the orifice it wa
t noticed that the blood actually left tn
f dead mans face which took on the pa
d lor usual with dead men.
g The strange action of the blood wa
= observed by the physicians, and tn
: chemist took particular note of |
From the heart and the abdominf
e cavity he also scooped up some Of tn
y blood, which he deposited in glas
n jar.
Yesterday the blood was in the sam
condition, thin and liquid, and of tn
color of crushed raspberries. 1t ha
not coagulated in the least In tn
twenty -four hours during which it ha
Y stood Blood usually coagulates in
g few minutes after being removed froi
s body, but that taken from the sailc
\ Shaanan had not thfckened at all. nc
e has scum formed over the surface. I
9 DIR. Shorey' opinion the case has man
= puzzling features, and some which al
: decidedly novel.
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