Show bavers bayers deatie neath DEATH till tim MYSTERY IS STILL STILT UNSOLVED at 10 this morning an inquest i was held in the office of undertaker J AV taylor over the tho body of joseph W sayers whose death from chloral polso poisoning ning mab wab wai announced in ill last even lus ins iu ings lugs s NEWS drs A S bower and jos S richards and J W cottle cottie i A T manning alarming and W M wilson the latter employed aa as a clerk at the wasatch pharmacy were called and examined mr b sayers afy a r who is about twenty five years of g age came to this territory ry bout about 1 seven weeks ago he went to bingham where he was employed in a store to his brother in law duncan Mc mcinnis innis lunis ile he returned to this city a few days since and became slightly acquainted with various persons persona 0 o his habits are said to have been steady and there appear appears 4 to be no possible reason to believe that he had any intention to destroy his bis ou life shortly after 8 monday evening din sir Mannin Manni nue nur sr invited him to tg take a budr bug y ride and he did so on their return mr sayers alighted at the tbt st james hotel where he was lodging while they were out together they had bad each taken one drink of liquor shortly afterward mr mannin manning met sayers oil on the street and they botn botu went to the wasatch pharmacy just above walker brothers on east term tern pie street and conversed for a short time while there they took a dina drra of whiskey served them by the cilik mr wilson sayers left there saying good night 11 manning alancin and wilson then went out locking GO the store to get some oysters and returned in about three quarters of an hour after their return a knock came to the door and wilson opened it sayers stag staggered 9 ered in saying haying well boys im awful drunk I 1 dont zet get this way often mauning manning Alaun inz remarked youve got an awful load where did you get it sayers sabers mumbled something tin lin reply which was waa not nut understood manning and wilson then seated sayers on a stool but ho he fell off they then placed him in au an armchair arni arm chair where he quickly went to sleep breathing apparently in ta a healthy manner they had no idea that he had taken chloral hydrate nor iid ild lid did they know where he had been when absent from the drug store they supposed him drunk took off his coat and vest and put bed this was aboud about 12 about 6 61 oil on tuesday morning they sent him in a hack to Sp spragues raguel livery livery stables on second south street treet between west temple and first west streets this action was taken because they thought I 1 him to be a respectable you sou young soung n man and they did not like to send him kim to the hotel in what they supposed was a state of at about 9 dr bower was summoned as the deceased did not appear to show any evidence of rec recoveries recovering from his bis stupor when dr bower reached the place he saw that it was a case ease of chloral Polson poisoning inc inz and believing it would be fatal immediately sent for far his partner dr richards they administered injections of atropia in all about one awen bieth of a agrain grain I 1 the pulse was normal at first but su t krew grew rew more mo re rigid rid 1 I and weaker the physicians endeavored to learn how their patient got into his condition but failed they took him hlin to the deseret hospital where the they made every effort to revive him but ait art aal to no purpose and at five minutes 0 to o 11 am yesterday he died the body was taken from the hospital to undertaker taylors Taylor ls and ithe coro coroners nors jury rendered the following verdict TERRITORY OF county of salt lake j an inquisition holden at the omec ace of joseph IV taylor in the second precinct of salt lake city on the lay day of may before george J taylor coroner of said county upon the body ot of joseph W sayers there lying dead by the jurors whose danits are am hereunto subscribed sub scribed ascribed bed the said jurors Jur orson on their heir t oaths do say from the evidence presented that he tie died st rt s t the deseret hospital in salt lake city at tive live minutes esto eato to 11 a in iss isk from the effects of an overdose of chloral hydrate liy lly drate but by whom administered the jurors know not they further urther f find nothing inthe lathe in the evidence to show criminal intent in testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written lillan LILIAN A Ev ENSIGN ensig sig sir W D HICKMAN HICKMA N jurors GEORGE J TAYLOR coroner the property of the deceased among which were a oid gold old watch a revolver pair of spectacles a business letter to ills his sister in bingham 1015 in cash and a few papers were turned over to mr K E A austin whose wife N i an bunt aunt of the deceased at the inquest na n information whatever was given giyen tu as to where or bv by whom the poisonous binig was admin adain administered ered and the affair remains a mystery the deceased had a fair education L and andrad had once takena taken a course counse ui in medicine with the idea of be becoming coining a physician chloral hydrate is ald aid said to bo commonly used among some clas cias classes for 11 tippling asit as it isan is an intoxicant just what amount the deceased had taken could not be determined as the quantity necessary to produce such a result differs materially mith with different persons |