The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-07
DEATH Of
PANGAL.LY
Stormy Career Comes
to a Sudden
End.

William Pangally, a pensioner of T.
H. Davies & Company. died suddenly
Sunday evening at o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Virginia Pangally. Likelike
street and although recent wound
was found ON the top of his head it was
shown to the satisfaction of a coroner S
jury which held an inquest last even
ing at the police station. that this was
not the immediate cause of his d-ath.
The coroner's jury rendered verdict
of death due to natural causes.
From the testimony OF Mrs. Pangally
and Mr.. Mckay a neighbor. who was
called in by Mrs. Pangally when the
deceased breathed his last, Mr.. PAN
gally who was about 66 years of age
had been in poor health for several
months. Although she had been di-
V )rsed from the stricken man, yet on
hearing that he was an invalid she
returned to him and helped him. Some
time during last week Mr.. Pangally
had a fall, so Mrs. Pangally testified
and received a bruise on his head. He
was about to sit in d rocker when it
tipped and he fell back against the
wall, and the bruise resulting was in
the nature of scratch. Mr.. Pangally
on being brought to his feet said it was
nothing and was soon engaged in read
ing.
Sunday evening he ate a hearty din
ner and went out ON the porch. Later
he came into the house and went to his
room. He had complained of not feel
ing well, that his whole body seemed
sore. He sat on the edge of the bed
and endeavored to get. off some of his
clothing but was unable to do so and
csjaaed Mrs. -?angally to assist him.
AS she did SO he complained of Illness
and his bands seemed to contract.
Then suddenly he fell back on the bed,
gasped and apparently became lifeless.
After giving him water and shaking
him Mrs. Pangally ran outside and
called neighbors. DR.. Mcdonald receiv-
ed a call about 10 O'Clock and saw the
body on the bed and had it removed to1
the morgue, where he performed an
DR.. McDonald's autopsy was to the
effect that he found the organs nor
NAL, except the heart seemed soft.
On the head he found confused
wound. On laying the scalp back he
found directly under the wound an
effusion of blood and a bruised skull
surface. On removing the skull cap at
least two am POSSIBLY three ounces of
serum flowed out. This was unusual
but appeared to be chronic state 1t
was an old condition, not new In his
opinion, there being no skull fracture, |
the bruise and the condition within the |
skull was insufficient to cause death. |
In the absence of any knowledge of |
foul play the death would have been
Dccasioned by heart failure.
Mr.. Pangally came into considerable |
here on May so, 1902. when |
he was placed under arrest for knitting
one T. H Duncan at his home on
Queen street. It seems that on that |
day according to the story printed at |
the time that Mr.. Duncan had lived at |
the Pangally home. or called there
At p. m. Mr.. Pangally |
eft the house Later Mrs. Pangally |
and Mr.. Duncan went out buggy riding |
and did not return until p. m. The |
wife was chided on her return and |
then Duncan butted in. Pangally then
rushed to the kitchen and procured a
carving knife and returning cut Dun
can in a terrible manner, all over his
body. Mrs. Pangally got hack and
the injured man to the
Queens Hospital. superintendent Eek
ardt notified Deputy Sheriff Chilling
worth who at once proceeded to the
Pangally home. The house was dark.
inside however. Pangally was found
He told ChiIiingworth he had been
for him. He was a horrible
sight and was covered with blood He
was later indicted by the grand jury.
In July Mrs. Pangally sued deceased
,or divorce on the grounds of cruelty.
She said that Pangally treated her in
and then recited the incidents
eading up to the assault on Duncan.
'he got the divorce.