Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-03-11
HEALTHY BLOOD
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

were the chief contents of the stomach |
This morning the police were work.
ing on the handkerchief clew, promls-
ing to divulge important points in a
little while.
One of the soldiers who came down
on the Warren, says tina: there has
been man missing from the TRANSPORT
ever since she arrived here from san
Francisco.
The missing man did not go out with
the Warren when she started from this
port for Manila and put back for re-
pairs. He was a member Of Company
4. Gordon was his name. This name
would agree with the letter G. on the
handkerchief found in the dead M MS
pocket. The soldier who gives the
information is also member of Com
pany f and slept in bunk near that
of Gordon on the trip from the Coast.
He says Gordon's appearance was
somewhat similar to the description
given of the dead man, but adds that
he does not remember Gordon very
well.
DR.. Pratt's report. given 70 The Cor.
oner's jury last night, was, in part, "a
follows:
General Appearances-Body of u
well developed and muscular white
man. feet 10 inches in height, dressed
in check suit, black neligee shirt. heavy
cred wooden shirt and lace shoes, heavy
grey wooden socks. Entire clothing
saturated with water. Faces exudine
from arms. Right arm tatooed with
six flags and a mans face; star OF
back of left hand, and around the left
wrist .tatooing about one-eighth inch
wide. Decomposition set in over en-.
tire head and blood oozing from nose
, One 1O-cent piece and two nickels in
right hip pocket; also. piece of plug
tobacco. Left hip pocket a handker-
chief with letter &c" embroidered, and
two laundry marks. 200S3 and 2OOs,
Fifty-cent piece in right pants pocket.
Pipe and box of matches In right
pocket of coat. Skin torn and loose
on right ring finger. Ring with blue
stone on left ring finger Hair thiCkly
matted with blood; color brown ana
subject partially bald on forehead.
Three-bladed knife in left pants pocket.
Epidermis peels on pressure all over
the body. Sore on right first finger
nearly healed and wrapped with rag.
Hands and feet shriveled from contact
with water
, Lungs-Ieft, slight pleuretiC adhe-
sions. Some congestion, but owing to
post-mortem changes hard to say Just
how much. Lung very heavy, weigh
ing about three times what it should,
On section water and bloody serum
exudes from all parts.
/ Right lung in about the same con-
dtion, with the exception that 1t was
/ lightly adherent to the thoracic walls
and diaphragm. Thoracic cavity filled
with blood-staincd fiued to the AMOUNT
| of about two quarts.
! Heart-No excess of pericardial fluid.
Heart soft and flabby; right auric!e
and ventricle free from clots, AMI left
the same. All valves healthy.
Brain-Upon removal of scalp thers
was seen hemorrhage had occurred
on the right side. over the parietai
bone, and another at the junction or
the two parietal bones with the ocCipi.
tai, After the skull cap had been re-
moved the evidence that there had
been hemorrhage of the brain and
rupture of some vessels in the brain
was more marked. The two places
were also more circumscribed, one be-
ing about two inches in diameter, and
the other about one inch and a half.
General Remarks-From the forego.
ing history of the findings, | have
reached the following conclusion That
the man died of drowning; that he died
in very few minutes; that in all
probability the wounds on the head
were received before death.
]. S. b. PRATT, NJ. d.