| Show SHOCKING FATALITY poison administered to william greene of stockton fan n inquest was held at 11 am today by coroner taylor and a alary be remains of william greene of acock too ten who died in the white house this thid city irom from the effects of opium poisoning at an early hour this morning the inquest was held at tn th office mee of aos wm W tn on west temple street the first witness exa examined wined was alexander who stated in substance that deceased was an englishman about 60 years of age who had just come to this ouy olty from stockton tOB where he be bad a family consisting of a v wife and eiehl cail children drep that he was a mastera mast masterwork tr man of the knights of labor and that he ae arrived here yesterday for the par dose of attending the funeral of apian named MoDou mcdonald aid who was to be burled buried today immediately on driving arriving hg he visited st marys hospital and 0 d 11 stepping outi down the steps 8 sprained p rained his ankle severely he rp re r tired to his bis room in the white house at about suffering more or less pain from the accident although when witness and Sp aldine inz and d spitz retired at they IMAN had been drinking and were feeling gay und and greane creppe joined heartily in laughing with the b rest did not know that greene was serious ly ill till lill it was mas announced by dr richards wao came in to attend him j late last night mr Greene died sail is at about 4 a ro ra today dr richards said fron from the effects of morphine witness 1 understood that it ilyas ws administered bya by a young man in the hotel did not og y know his name the doctor said he T was sent for by the young man who wco 4 administered the medicine I 1 dr A AS S bower said he was called about 12 midnight and found dr kic rich h ardo ardson in attendance that anat all the usual expedients were resorted to in n order to counteract the effects of the mor phine poison from which he was evidently I 1 suffering ferias eif he learned that greene was groaning with pain abena young man present at the request of deceased ad adminta mints ered a dose of mar bior phine hypodermically which not oper acing as speedily as expected was re heated to the amount in all of 56 5 6 of a grain half a grain graid Is a full fall do se he the doctor thought the overdose was unintentional the death was unmistakably mistakably An altri b u t able 0 to o opi a in poison i ng dg edward burling jr of chicago was the next witness who tes testified tided that be had bad been in this city two weeks that last night hearing a man moaning ter bibly lie he went to his assistance and asked if he could do any thing for him witness sags calling a doctor but deceased did not want one but requested reque witness to give him some morphine to relieve his bis pain he did sw giving him about half baff a syringe full fall of solution hypodermically As the i patient seemed still unrelieved anfe called for more tie be repeated the dise witness stated that he bad been inthe habit of using the drug more or or less and that he had taken with four times the amount he ad ministered to mr greene that W kave ave the medicine in order to re cap him and with no other motive mott ve and thit that 1 he felt as though his witnesses life 1116 was blasted by the fatal result As soon as practicable after ascertaining that the dose close was likely to prove in he called in a equi competent ph physician asician dr richards to do w wha h tie could to remedy the evil dajos dr jos S richards said shortly af a f affa t 9 rpm P in last night tar lar burling C called at lid V upon me stating that he had g given v en the te h J moroline moro hine as stated witness vi 7 en t to the patient and used every known know n an and other means available to te counteract the effects of t ane ae drug s laboring with varying r success for over five hours but finally in vain the thet death undoubtedly re resulted irp lri opium poisoning he was convinced from the actions of mr burling that heta he was innocent of criminal intent intention intently lo i rhe substance of th was ao the said jurors on their oath s dp do say 4 that he died at am a m thursday the day of november A D 1887 at the white house in saba like cita from the effects of opium poison AU administered by edward Burl burline tog and aad fh they fal further farther find that sd edward burling Is innocent i t of any criminal arl I 1 intent antl raf |
