The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-18

anu SO ulu MOIht. 1nEY passed it to him, and he took very small sniff He testified that in a few minutes Gunnell fell as if he were dead, and about the time he was go ing to see what ailed him, Moring himself saw things black ahead of him. He spoke to Molke, and about that time he saw Molke go down. Then he became unconscious. They took the drug between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of Monday. Moring felt himself getting worse and worse, and got to some water and drank free ly and yomited freely, and was very sick. He crawled to the air and managed to survive the poison, though it was night before he recov- cred consciousness. and it was morn ing before he ceased vomiting.
 Irve Francis testified that he met the dead men at the saloon in the morning They asked him about where they could purchase some CO caine. He did not know, he said, but thought he could direct them, so took them to pressing stand in the rear of a fruit stand on Ouachita near Market street They called the pres ser out, and told him they wanted coke. and the presser said he could nor-get that, but could get them some Heroin, which he went and got for Cunning and Molke. The witness said they offered the presseT sniff, and he said he had to get to work, and the three left and went back to the rear of the Windsor bar where they could all take it. There they snuffed some, and he took only little of it. They had been told it was
 Heroin and coke mixture The wit ness worked in a club room over the Red Front bar room, and went to his work, but was taken sick. He was blind first and then vomited exces- sively All night he vomited from the fleet of the drug, but he did not know anything happened to the oth- CTS who used it until late yesterday afternoon when, sought as a witness by Drs. Randolph and "A. c. Ellis, he was told the two men had died. Lee McCrosson was the man who sold or procured the Heroin for the dead men. He testified that he ran the pressing shop. and that he was confirmed morphine tiend. He said the three men came up to him about noon and asked him if they could get some coke from him. and that he told them that he did not have any. He told them he used morphine. One of the men said he wanted coke, ana said he used it. The witness testi- | fled that the men looked as if they had been on long debauch and needed the drug, and that he told them he could not get them coke, but could get them Heroin. He testified that one of the men said he had talk en both, and had sold both, and was familiar with both McCrosson went | to Aliens drug store and got 50 cents worth of Heroin and brought 1t to them Witness said the had used | Heroin himself, and did not believe | that it could have affected the men as they were effected.
 Will Roberts testified that Monday morning he was in the saloon when the bartender was throwing Gunneli and Molke out of the back door for drinking alcohol. He said it seemed that the men had bought the alcohol somewhere else, and came there to drink it, and that the bartender was sore about it. Later the bartenders changed, and he saw the men inside the room, and saw one (GunnelD throw up his hands and fall, as if dead. and soon two others were taken down. It was presumed that they had fallen from drink. A long time later he heard one of the men gasp ing for breath, and struck a match, and saw that he was not drunk, but was dying. He made an alarm, and soon a physician was sent for.
 Dr A. C. Ellis, city physician, an- swered the call. He found two of the men, Gunnell and Molke, in dying condition. The other man, Moring, was sick, but had vomited so much that he was past danger. Dr. Ellis had the men removed to the Barry hospital, where he worked over them until late in the morning when the two died, not more than half an hour apart Dr Ellis said the men could not have taken cocaine, and the poison they did take had very peculiar effect.
 The case was reported to Coroner Dr. ]. P. Randolph, yesterday morn ing and he held the inquest in the afternoon. Undertaken Gross com municated with relatives of both of the men, and one body was ordered held pending further Instructions, and the other is held awaiting the arrival of a relative today. Both the victims are of middle age. and were appar- ently travellers. Neither could have been strongly addicted to the drug or to any drug and have felt such effects as this produced.
 The question of the state laws on the sale of poisons was discussed at the inquest, and while the laws are evidently insufficient, yet it seemed there was sufficient law to prevent the sale of such drugs in such quan- titles. There was testimony from Dr. A. c. Ellis that he found box un- labeled near where the men were found. There may at some time have been a label on the box. but it was not on that found by Dr. Ellis. and