The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-07
A BIG CLOT Of
BLOOD IS
FOUND
cFrom Thursdays AdvortIscr)

(From Thursdays Advertlser)
Side remarks made last night by
some members Of the coroner's jury
holding an inquest over the body of J.
McGannon, who died at the Queens
hospital Tuesday morning after being
kept in cell at the police station over
night with a fractured skull, indicate
that, so far, they are not satisfied that
the Queen IS hospital staff is free from
charge of neglect, One expressed the
opinion, aside that he meant to find
out if it wasn't case of the hospital
giving scant attention TO n wounded
man simply because he was poor.
This is the case where man was
picked up at the corner of Hotel and
Bethel streets about half an hour before
midnight Monday and hurried to the
Queens hospital, whence, after being
subject to the usual cursory examina-
ton for wounds, he was sent back to
the police station and there booked as
drunk. After remaining in cell for
nearly six hours it was discovered that
the prisoner was in n desperate condi-
ton and he was sent back to the hos
pital where he died shortly afterward.
An autopsy showed that the man had
sustained a skull fracture, producing
an unusually large eliot of blood on
the brain, but even this fracture was
not apparent TO the doctor who per-
formed the post norton examination
until he had DETECTED the scalp.
The evidence produced before the
coroner's jury last evening was merely
to establish the fact that the man was
| picked up on the Criterion corner not
more than half an hour, and possibly
less, before IL CLOCK and hurried to
the Queens Hospital, where. after
brief examination, no wounds or
fractures being discovered he was
returned to the patrol wagon and
taken to the station house where he
was booked at 1905 a. m. as drunk
and placed in cell. When the turnkey
tried to arouse him the next morning
he found the man vomiting blood and
in such n condition that the turnkey
called in Sergeant Nelson and the
patient was hurried to the hospital, ex-
piring there few minutes after arrival.
When McGannon was booked he was
led down the runway to cell. He
walked, being assisted by two officers,
the usual course with drunken pris-
oner.
. A. Kahawanui, the bicycle officer,
who responded to a call for the police
and found the man lying on the side
walk, stated he sent for the patrol
wagon. He noticed blood around the
man. IS head. At the hospital he merely
took the man into the operating room
and turned him over to the hospital
authorities, making no statement as
to the probable cause of the man Is
injury. He said the doctor washed
the mans face, felt about his head,
held saturated cotton at his nostrils
and cleaned all traces of blood away,
revealing slight cash on one of his
cheek bones. The mans breath was
heavy with liquor. After this examna.
, tion the surgeon ordered the man back
to the patrol wagon.
DIR. Mcdonald testified that when the
: body was turned over to him for an
autopsy he found that the man mad q
badly swollen and blackened left eye
the discoloration extending to the
cheek. Beneath the right eye was q
confused wound. AS far as he could
J determine from a general examination
B there were no fractures, but from the
D knowledge he had of the case he cut
2 open the scalp, turned it back and
0 then found very bad fracture in the
/ skull above the left temple. Openings
l radiated from n center. When the
0 skull was taken Off he found a eliot
1 Of blood five by four inches. The black
3 ened eye had the general appearance
0 of an injury received in a fight. Al
to the manner in which the fracture
O was received he thought it might have
: been by contact with some fiat sur
I face or blunt instrument, instancinl
a pavement in the former case.
n All Kong, Chinese employed at thu
n Hoffman House restaurant, said he wen
n to the scene because his partner cam'
= into the restaurant saying there wa
n fight. He went out and saw a MAJ
=, lying on the sidewalk with his hea'
q just over the curb.
n As the jury wants to hear the evi
dence of the doctor at the hospital VIII,
examined McGannOD, as well as two o
three others who were in the VICINITY
of the corner of Bethel and KIM
y streets about the time McGannon wa
found, that body adjourned until thi
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