The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-20
GONZALES is DEAD
TILLMAN's BULLET DID ITS FATAL
WORK.
FORMALDEHYDE WAS GIVEN.
RTT THE NEW TREATMENT FAILED
TO REVIVE HIM.


~ He Grew Worse, and at O'clock
He Died-Great Sorrow Expressed
at Columbia and Throughout
south CarOIina-FuneraI Will Take
Place This Afternoon - TiIlman
Would Make no Statement.
Columbia, S. c., Jan. 19.-At 1 o'clock
this afternoon Mr.. N. G. Gonzales died
at the Columbia Hospital. He was I'M
conscious when the end came and death
was painless. His wife, his three
brothers, A. Z. and w. E. Gonzales of
the State, and A. B. Gonzales of Col
leton his sister. Miss Harriet r. E.
Gonzales, and members of the editorial
staff of the State and his surgeons
were present.
The morning papers had informed
the public that hope had practically
been abandoned. A few minutes after
the end came it was known all over
Columbia. The whole city is deep in
sorrow There is no apparent anger,
no display of excitement but even to
a stranger passing through the city,
the unnatural quiet, at time when
the presence of the Legislature and
with the inauguration of a new adj
mlnistration imminent should make it
unusually animated, would be notice
able.
On the streets the people talk in
hushed voices of the tragedy and in
the universal silent expression of sor-
row all other emotions seem to be lost.
Tried New Experiment..
At o'clock this morning DR.. w. Gill
Wylie, after consulting with Drs.
Query and Barron and members of
the family, in view of the hopelessness
of other remedies, decided to try the
experiment of the injection of for
maldehyde, acting on information of
the recent discoveries of DR.. Barrows
of New York. The fluid was procured
and prepared by an experienced drug
gist At 7:90 o'clock Mr.. Gonzales was
conscious and the family was summon
ed, in anticipation of a possible I'M
favorable effect of the injection.
At o'clock the injection was made
in the arm. 1t was known that fay
orable results in arrest of the periton-
tits, if they would follow at all, would
be at once manifest. But there was no
Improvement AS time passed the pa
TENTS respiration grew weaker and
the evidence of approaching death
palmer. Just before the end the sur
geons by request resorted to a second
injection. There was a momentary
strengthening of the pulse, but almost
before the injection had been COM
pleted, Mr.. Gonzales was dead.
The Official Bulletins
The following were among official
bulletins issued during the morning:
1890 a. m.-Mr. N. G. Gonzales is
almost in a dying condition. AS
last resort DR.. LeGrand Query in
jected intravenous injection of 500 &C
solution of formaldehyde with
strength of 1 to 5000. No decided bene-
fit was experienced and little is now
anticipated"
IL a. m.-Mr. Gonzales is dying, but
may last an hour or two hours"
~ MIR. Gonzales is slowly sink
ing; may last until 1907
At 4:30 o'clock this afternoon an
autopsy on the body was held by Dr.
A. B. Knowlton, county physician of
1tlchland. BY courtesy of DR.. Knowl-
ton. Drs. LeGrand Guerry and James
n. Mcintosh, who attended Mr.. Con
tales, assisted. IT is understood that
the finding of the autopsy to be re-
ported will in a general way be as fol-
lows:
Report of the Autopsy.
Sepsis, due to a sloughing of the
large bowel at and about the. seat of
injury to that organ. The point of en-
trance of the bullet was on the right
side of the abdomen, six inches below
the right nipple and 21R inches to the
night of the middle line. The point of
exit was on the left side of the abdo-
men, S12 inches below the left nipple
ana nine inches to the left of the mid
Ole line. There was a slight injury to
me front wall of the stomach. Every
vital organ, including heart, kidneys,
lungs, spleen, appendix, liver, bladder,
etc, were examined and all found
ypically normal"
surgeons attribute the death of Mr.
Gonzales, as shown by the autopsy to
profound septic infection from the gan
grenous condition of tissue consequent
upon the bullet wounds.
AT O'Clock Coroner Green empan-
eLed a jury with Allen Jones, a prom
nent business man, as foreman, most
OF the other members being well known
business men also. The jury viewed the
Dody, after which the inquest was ad-
JoHrned until Thursday at s p. M,
"nen Testimony will be heard in the
.ounty court room. The body was then
'aken to the residence of Mr.. Con-
~dles, on henderson street.
Attorney Coleman L. Blease, who is
said to be one of Col Tillman's law
yers, was present when the jury was
al the hospital, but took no active
part in the proceedings.
TiIIman Was Told of 1t.
Soon after the death of Mr.. Con-
@ales a telephone message carried the
news to Capt Sigh, the county iailer,
ana ne apprised Col. Tillman. 1t is said
mar the latter received the intelligence
nIthout any expression or betokening
my emotion one way or the other He
vas asked tonight If he would make
q statement and replied through his
urotner-in-law, ex-Judge Buchanan,
ui M, ne had nothing to say.
me funeral will take place from
- tIlIllty Episcopal Church at o'clock
so-Ihorrow afternoon. Rt. Rev. Eli
Son Capers, Bishop of the diocese of
TTpulh Carolina, will conduct the rites.
me active pallbearers will be ten
iIeinpers of the States force, includ-
lnose members of the editorial staff
b, no nave been longest associated with
I'm ana representatives of other de-
P11TIliilents of the State office.
"heh the news that the end had