The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-22
MAN WAS FOUND DEAD

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Sailors Home yesterday mornins.
The runner, or outside man, belong
ing to that institution, was making his
| usual morning rounds to see that no one
had crept into the house and taken
bed without paying for it, when he
! came across an apparently sleeping man
| on one C the beds in room No. g. Think
ling that the man had possibly been
drinking and that he had not yet over
come the effects of liquor, he started to
shake him when he was shocked to dis
cover that he was attempting to wake
4 a dead man.
/ The runner Immediately informed Cap
tain Bray, the manager of the Sailors
Home, and Bray notified the police, VINO
|were soon on hand and investigating the
matter When an examination of the
/ body was made by the police it was
found that the face was BLACK and that
1.-THE man had probably met death through
Isome form of suffocation. No indications
of foul play were evident nor did it seem
i that the deceased had taken his own
life His clothes were neatly folded and
iplaced beneath his pillow and there was
something over. a hundred dollars in the
clothes. Some papers of pills We're found
lin one of the pockets of the mans vest.
THE money was in bills for the most part
and "a good deal of it was British.
i The only name that the man was
known by is Samuels, and it is by no
means certain that that was his name.
He did not register at the Home, as 1t
lis not the habit of transents to register,
land he had only engaged room for a
Icouple of nights, paying in advance.
Captain Bray is of the impression that
the man gave his name as SamuelS when
hon he
sure There we're no papers found on him
to prove his identity
Samuels arrived at the Home couple
, lof days ago and said that he only want
led a bed for night or two. He was
well dressed and did not seem to be a
sailor He was about 80 years old, above
the medium height, wearing reddish
moustache and appearing in comfortable
circumstances When his body was dis
covered yesterday morning, it was not
on the bed which he had engaged, but
lying stretched upon the next bed. II
seems possible that he had fallen upor
the bed upon which he was found, prob
ably having gotten up in the night an6
attempted to call some one to his assist
. ance feeling sick, and then fallen across
the bed where he was found. He was II
his underclothes at the time and his sock:
were only half on as if he had put then
on in a great hurry. To all appearance:
tack of appoplexy or some kindred DIS
ease.
; Yesterday morning, shortly after thu
body had been removed from the Sailors
Home to the morgue, young man calico
at the Home and asked if a certain man
!, answering description which he gave
] could be seen. He was told that the MAJ
Twas dead and that his body had only
Just been taken to the morgue. The IN
quirer did not know the name of the MAJ
: he had asked for, evidently, for he die
Z not mention it. He said that the deceas
ed had come down from Canada on tn
= steamship Miowera with him and tina
he had said that he was troubled witt
heart disease and that he was comins
to this country for the benefit of hi
Health intending to go to Hilo on tn
: Claudine today, where he said he had
J, brother connected with newspaper.
: The inquest in the case has been post
lponed until noon today as the autops,
has not yet been completed.
> Twilight Again Puts In.
Il once more the little schooner Twiligh
, has put into this port in distress.
> was only on Saturday last that she sail
ed out of the harbor for San Francisco
] WHITTIER she was bound when she cam
, into Honolulu on the 23d of December
from Washington Island, leaking badl
and minus sails and provisions and al
> most everything else except a tale o
hardship and a few pieces of hard tacl
lin the galley and a little water in he
lcasks.
The Twilight has probably lived all o
her days of usefulness and may still
leave her bones in this harbor. She wa
in sad plight when she first came il
from the South. Since then she was sup
posed to have been repaired, according
to the instructions of board of survey
and it was thought that she in
condition at least good enough to enabl
her to go to San Francisco with the co
pra which she has in her hold.
This time she was out on her way t
San Francisco less than two days Whel
lit was discovered that she was leakin