| Show KILLERS HILLERS DEATH it was a decided shock to the bust buel mesa community monday to learn laro that E Q G hiller special tax ax collector in city treasurer duke dukes s office until very recently had suddenly bated his big career by taking strychnine hiller had been for a time a very offic ieng and popular employed among me brother clerks he bad latterly bo however wever a wea igness and a very bad one it Is was for liquor and nd to that lie he owed big dismissal irom the department he continued to drink and with hla his dissipation came deSPOD despondency dency mingled with an ever present and haunting fear that political and other enemies were wera seeking his bia ruination yesterday morning he betook retook himel belt to a barUt barn Dear near oia his borne bome at no east second south street inquiry being made as ai to his presence pree ence there be evinced a desire not to answer the drew a revolver aou aard corn coin banded the owner to go away this act was reported to the neighbors neighbor and the news new of it spread quickly among them councilman omeara was one of 0 those who heard beard of it and he be determined to visit and if possible pacify hiller he succeeded in this to the extent that hiller put away the re volver subsequently fou found ad to be unload egand accompanied him from the premise on the way from the place hiller related the story of his big troubles and how bow hla hie supposed enemies were sick ing to encompass his destruction he w as s taken to the police station where or dr daiby was summoned and where he be prescribed tor for toe unfortunate man mayine that he be had bad a fit fig of temporary insanity and recommending he be be kept under guard but that be also be allowed the he liberties of the hall ball between 6 5 and 6 in the after he be begged to be allowed to go home to dinner and permission being granted chief pratt deputed derge mit wire to accompany him there was no unusual occurrence at dinner and arter after it was waa over he returned to the station with the officer and for a time talked in a wandering ug strain to the clerks and the boys boya who dropped in off duty about 9 he asked to be permitted permit ed to retire for the night aud and he was shown to the patrol meas nap room up tain stairs where he immediately lay jay down and as it was an supposed posed went to sleep but it was ml the e sleep bleed of death into which he be fell as an develop ments soon afterwards showed just before ton tea desk sergeant Her geant ferguson tripped lightly into the room to lo gelb eeb how be was resting rea ting all was perfectly quiet and the officer withdrew and went back to bis big desk just in time to receive a telephone laone messana from hiller hillers s wife asking as to her husbands condition with the added admonition dont don teu tell him though that I 1 asked about him aj in ret response to her anxious inquiry the desk sergeant wired back the an ae aring wordy words he is sleeping sound ly jy 11 and the incident closed A few minutes be forell desk sergeant who had one succeeded ferguson lor for the night and to whose and keeping hiller had been committe COMMItted daleo also went upstairs to ascertain whether or not be had bad any needs and it if so to supply them he was stretched out lull full length upon the cot when spoken to there was no answer when bis big hand was touched it was ice like and limp dr dalby among others waa was speedily summoned it took the doctor but an instant to 90 arrive at the conclusion that the WRO man was dead and he be so informed those present saying that it was a CROO case of suicide by strychnine and that diagnosis was found to be correct co erect as the wrapper of the deadly drug was discovered in one of his pockets noc kete the deceased was a canadian Ci nadian by birth and 84 years of age he came to salt bait lake during the real boom and was for a time with the be firm of mccloskey callock Cul Cui lock he was a thirty second degree mason and a member of the I order and will be buried under the auspices of those societies socie tiec tiei H ira only relatives relative here are his bis wife and one child hiller will be remembered as miss mine amelia simpson bimpson at ont one time an enter representative of aft business I 1 t dopart department ment of the evening limes a 0 this city did E 0 hiller commit suicide that is the quee question tion his bli friends are aking each other and the more frequently they propound it Is in view of the results of an official autopsy made public this morning the more convinced are they bey that he be did not the inquest set for or 4 mon man berday afier afternoon noon was postponed until 10 am tuesday pending which a number of leading physicians made an autopsy at the inquest drs witcher Wi tober riot bot and ewing stated slated that they had found sufficient cause for sudden death in the kidneys of the deceased those organs were abnormally inflamed and covered with pus and it was not in their opinion improbable that their condition revealed the true cause of death the contents of the stomach were removed and placed under seal and may be carefully analyzed later ou on in case there should be a refusal on the part of the insurance companies to honor the he policies held by trio deceased it to is significant thab the autopsy showed absolutely abiel no eight of polean ing the fact that there was a strychnine wrapper in the pockets of the dead mans clothes cuts very little figure as an it 19 was waa very much worn indicating that it might have been carried for fora a long time perhaps for mou month thip the inquest had bad not been concluded sit at we noon hour when an adjournment was taken a niall datil 2 oo ook on resuming tho the bearing this after noon or dr dalby was put ou on the stand he testified to finding the strychnine label in hiller hillera a pocket but did not venture the conclusion that death w was as due to poisoning se he however did say may that the deceased had bad expired in a convulsion the jury accepted the statements of the autopsy that causes of death were other than suicidal and on aim the strength of the whole finding returned the following verdict that the said edger edgar hiller cadue to his death on day of may 1895 the cause of death was chronic inflammation of the kidney kid neyr |
