The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-26
DECLARE He
IS INSANE
Carl Lundahl Must BE
Confined.
SAYS He Is A MURDERER
Was Afraid That the Police Would
Hang Him so Intended to
Hang Himself.

~ ARL LUNDAHL was examined
~ before Judge Wilcox yesterday af
ternoon by Dr. c. B. Emerson.
and was found to be of unsound mind
He was committed to the Insane Hos
pital at once, where close watch will
be maintained over him.
Lundahl came to this city from Swe-
den about eighteen months ago, and
went to work for the Hawaiian Tar
riage Company. He has been constant
| ly employed until recently, when his
fellow workmen noticed that he was
becoming eccentric in his actions, and
seemed to be laboring under the inn
preston that the police were looking
for him.
His mind evidently turned upon two
subjects. for at times he would claim
that the court had declared him insane,
and he would then tell his friends that
he was about to commit suicide.
At other periods he would imagine
that he had murdered some one, and
that the police were going to hang him
for the crime.
On January 18th Lundahl had pur-
chased draft No. S7135 from Bishop tS
| Co., OIL tIllS CITY, lOI Sl,uUV i he III dll
was drawn on the Bank of California
at San Francisco, in favor of Miss Au-
gusta Johnson. This was to have been
forwarded by her to some friend Of
Lundahl in Sweden.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth says
that about 8 o'clock Wednesday even
ing, he was seated in his office, when
man rushed excitedly UP the steps
and bursting into the room declared
he 1rt Canfannpd him
be hanged for murder, and that he
wanted fair trial.
He claimed that a mob was pursuing
him, and were threatening to take his
life.
The perspiration was streaming from
his face, and before he would be seated
he looked carefully about the room
and under his chair. Chillingworth
thought the man was suffering from
delirium tremens. Lundahl stated that
he had been here about year and
a half, and that before he left Sweden,
he had suffered considerable from a
hard blow on the left side of the head,
occasioned by fall incurred while
skating.
After he left the Office he jumped on
his bicycle and went up PunchbowI
street into the lantana, where he dis
appeared, and was not seen until the
following night.
r. SelanQer CLAIMED 1ndt ne mad
known LuHdahl for nearly year, and
that lately he had noticed that his ac-
lions were queer. He was inclined to
be distrustful, and Thursday night told
his landiady that he was going to COM
nit suicide. Taking box of pills from
his pocket he pointed to the label of
poison and said. Guess what these
are. Well. they are poison and 1 am
going to kill myself and followed up
his remark by swallowing the contents
of the box.
A letter from Lundahl was shown
the witness, who translated the Swed-
iSh words as follows: Mother
Sweden. This is my last. They have
declared me crazy, and 1 am going to
kill myself. Divide my money. Do not
cry" The letter was unsigned, and as
Selander read it he was visibly affected
by it's contents. Selander will endeayor
to secure his release as soon as posi-
BILE from the hospital and take him to
California.
j. F. Clyne, who employed LundahI,
spoke of his general good character,
and also stated that of late his actions
had been peculiar
After listening to the testimony
Judge Wilcox said that in his opinion,
from the evidence before him, that
Lundahl was of unsound mind, and or
dered his detention in the insane hos
pital