Show 4 y BY CHLORAL YDTE in The Verdict of the Coroners Jury the Sayers Mystery No Testimony Adduced to Clear Up the Fatal Deed But Undoubtedly Chloral Hydrate Sent Sayers to His Long Sleep The post mortem examination of the held this body of Joseph W Sayers was morning at the office of James W Taylor City Coroner G J Taylor swore in Hennefer and W D Hickman William L A Ensign as jurors Dr A S Bower was called and testi yesterday fled that he was summoned morning about 9 oclock by a hackman to see a man at P D Spragues livery stable west of Walker Brothers Bank corner On arriving there he found the deceased lying on his back in a small room His hands and nose were blue and the respiration very weak He recognized recog-nized what he thought to be A CASE OF CHLORAL POISONING death inevitable within And believing short time he sent for his partner Dr Richards and the stupified young man conveyed to the Deseret hospital was Chloral was distinctly smelled on his breath and the means and cause whereby he obtained it were looked into but no found At the hospital the clue was due injected liypoclennically 1UOth of physicians grain of atrppia also a dose of a strychnine and digitalis The pupil of the eye responded a trifle by contraction but he sank away again and DIED IN ABOUT ONE HOUR Afterward at 11 55 am Dr Richards testified to substantially the same facts and said that no amount of artificial heat from hot water in bottles I and all the efforts known to the medical profession could arouse him Mr J W Cottle being sworn testified that he was acquainted with Mr Sayers and last saw him in a sober condition in front of the Wasateh Drug Store Monday evening about 8 JO with Mr Manning in the ict of going for a drive Saw him again yesterday morning at 10 oclock in a room at Spragues livery stable lIe was breathing very short and weak and was taken to the Deseret Hospital Mr A Manning and AV M Wilson were sworn and Mr Manning testified I that he TOOK SAVKRS FOil A IUDE Monday night about 730 oclock and after driving about the city without making any stops he took Mr Sayers to the St James and left him there At about 11 oclock Sunday night Mr Manning i Man-ning met the deceased near the Walker House and took a drink at the Senate saloon than went to Moor Allen Cos drug store where they stayed about thirty minutes Mr Manning said he and Wilson went to supper and bade Say ers good night but when they returned about 11 30 oclock he CAME BACK TO TIlE STORE VERY DRUNK He was put to bed and toward morning taken to Snrairues stables and then to the hospital Mr Wilson testified to the same facts given by Mr Manning He noticed no smell of chloral or any drugs about him In taking his revolver watch and glasses away for safe keeping he NOTICED NO BOTTLE OR DRUG Of any sort about him and stated that it would have been impossible for him to have helped himself to any poison while in Moore Allen Cos without it being known TIlE VERDICT At the inquisition held at the office of Joseph W Taylor before the county coroner George J Taylor upon the body of Joseph AV Sayers there lying dead The jurors on oath say from the evidence presented that he died at the Deseret Hospital in this city at five minutes of 111 oclock a m the 26th day of May 1885 from the effects of chloral hydrate but by whom administered the jurors know not They further find nothing in the evidence to show criminal intent WILLIAM HENNEFER I L A ENSIFN WD HICKMAN |