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Show "TIRBD OF LIYIRC." 1 Stranger SiMta it tie Ray-moid Ray-moid House BYAAOTBKD03KOF XlfiHI.E UrnuVeonei Sc Ce ot the Ter-rIMe Ter-rIMe BttH. A recent arrival in this city, by the name of John Klnncm&n, formerly for-merly an employe of the Utah Cen-tral Cen-tral Hallway Company, committed suicide last evening about 0 o'clock, at the HayruDd House, opposite the Theatre en Second South Street The istmediata cause of death was au overdose of morphine, administered adminis-tered by hii own hand with suicidal intent. From the time of taking ep his residence at the bjginj nouio re-ferred re-ferred to, alout thtee weeks ago, he has been in ani under the in-fluenjoriiqajr in-fluenjoriiqajr ruostor the time. The proprietor of the pU;e reparts. thatasreguUras aljht camo, the deceased would tike a pint of whiky lo W an I by rcsrC-ingthe rcsrC-ingthe UisV would invariably be empty. The prortietrt took up a litor with biiM and begged of him to refrain from the nse of all Intoxicants the msu Anally promlsvd to do so. For a day or two he drank no Hquororany kind bat grew wotte instead of better and announced Ms intention of self-destruction, giving asareaasn that ho was tired of living, snj&nce more drank him-selfdruuk. him-selfdruuk. I)r. Habroaek,t was summoned on Wc lneiBy last and prescribed for Ivlneman but the man seean really to have became de-pciate and resolved on taking his own i uie, as trarue ottl By nls statement that it was his Intention to u3 .0" and csufirmed by th .' thaton Wednesday night a took 32 doses ofhi-drategX chloral; but thefaUt results thit would have attenled 'Ui taking of fuch an (exorU int dotu of the dru,j under ordi-nary ordi-nary circumstance was counteracted counter-acted by the great amoant of liquor he bad taken during the Cay prior to pledglug hlmstir thai lie niuld "drink no more.' Vesterday after-niKiu after-niKiu he Ml his apartment?, however, how-ever, for a short time, and eomthow secured a bottle Of raorpfiihe, which tie took, ft-Ith t!Se ttsult mentioned. The body of tho deceased min was removed lo the underttkl.ig establishment estab-lishment of Kvans X Ross, where aud inquest was held today before Coroner Harris. The filloviing wIlcriKS were sworn and examined liiu GHiClier teiUfled I am a rerarir lojger at the Itiyniond 1 House, oppnile the Tueatre on First South Street. List eveuiug about 6:30, when I returned from my day's lalior, I was aceoted at the entrance to my apartment by tho proprietor of the houe, who Informed In-formed mo that a man a dying. I went with him to llto deceased's room anJ found alra in an un-conscioje un-conscioje condition; 1 know that he has beca drinking a great deal since lie came to the I'.tymon Hou'-c. Mr. Finn testiCed I haveeharge of ttie lodging uotise over she saloon oppoMte Cc Theatre. The deal man has bjen addicted lo the ue of I intoxlcalits-. Uarlug the f-', few laj9 he made up his mind to refrain ! from the uss of all alcoholic stlmu- Ilants, but he seeaiid to lure great pain after doing to. Three daj ago I askou him if I should summon a physician, he n-i n-i plied no. but I rentonstratni with and endiavcreil to show hlni that 1: was criminal, not to tmploy prope-jaid prope-jaid uhllesutrerlugas he was. He Ilna'ly yielded and I called in Dr. I Habrouek, who prescribed for hiai. I I went to a drug store and had the prescrixtion tilled and paid fur it out of his own money, which be deposited depos-ited witli ms on the Or-t Bight he took up his abode at theRiymond House. The amojnt he left was 5 IT. I have given him small amounts of mouey frequently since then, a few cents or a dollar or two at a lime, as he wished. The tint night after purchasing the nicdicitie referred to, he emptied the liottle of Its contents, aud next day the prescription pre-scription was duplicated. I) : Hasbrouck testified On Wed-nesday Wed-nesday last Mr. Finn called at my ollice and informed me that he had a drunken lodger In his boueand atked me if I could give him an antidote fordrunkennec. I inform-1 ed him that I could and prejared j for him a prescription condMingof hydrate of chloral and syrup of acacia, to be taken hourly until he -liouM fall n'W'p. 1 saw tho man no more until iai nigir,wnen l wss again summoned to his bedside and discoxercd that he was dying, presumably from an nvcrdote of morphine. In reply to the question of the coroner Would the medicine you prescritied prove fatal if taken in large quantities? the doctor said I do not thiuk so, bile the man was under the influence of liquor: otherwise other-wise it would. Dr. K. A. Tubbs testlfiad Lat night I was requested to go to the Raymond Hou-eanJ at-Ut a dyliig man ;I did a hastily, aud when I arrived I found the man in the throes of death and remarked that it was unless to try and save him, as he was evidently sulk-ring from au overdoe sf morphine. Dr. Hasbrouck was there at the time. We cat to work, however, with a will and endeavored to restore the dying man. A stomach pump was used, but the joiKin hau already done itsJeadly work and in a ft.ir minutes the man expired. Itieorge White testified I am a lodger at the Itiymoud Hou-e. Yesterday Yes-terday afternoon, about -I o'clock. tLe deceased lift the hcaiee aud , went up street aud returned about tifteen minutes afterwards. He took a glass of water with him to his room. Have been acquainted with him for a long time; worked with Jinn :n Park City. I never saw him under tho lnRuence of liquor, and don't know that he ued morphine. : Mr. Bell testified lam adniggUt by profeesiou; am emnlyed in the drugstore of Earl D. ("ray; I filled Dr. Hasbrouck' prescription; a stranger called at the store yesterday yester-day afternoon and asked for fifty cents worth of morphine; by the demand for such an unusual quantity quan-tity I knew that be was not aduictetl to the use of morphine and refused to sell it to him on the suggestion of the proprietor, Mr. Gray. An habitual morphine eater will always call for sixty cents worth the regular price of a liottle of morphine tnrougbout the UntteJ States. When less amounts are called for we must necessarily be very careful in disposing of Vie deadly drug. I do not remember that the ueceased was the man who called for the drug; I was waiting en another customer at the time and paid litHe attention to the man; however, I sold him no morphine. This closed the taking of testimony testi-mony and the jurors, under the opinion that tho drug was obtained elsewhere, rendered the following verdict: "Wo, the jury, do find that the deceased de-ceased was about SSjcars of age, a German by birth, and that became to his death on the 12th day of December, 1590, from an overdoso of morphine administered by his own band, with suicidal intent. J.tl Ito. G. W. WUlii, G. F. Calmer. Jurors." |