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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch; <deesar@frontiernet.net>
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>Thursday, 4 Apr 1872<<
DEATH at the HOSPITAL -- CORONERS INQUEST -- Following is the proceedings of an inquest held at the office of Coroner BOND yesterday, on the body of John BLAIR, who died yesterday morning at the County Hospital:
B.A. MEAD, sworn -- I am Steward of the County Hospital; the deceaseds name is John BLAIR, generally called Jack; he died at the County Hospital this (3d) day of April, about 20 minutes past 1 oclock a.m.; he was brought there on the 27th of March, 1872, with a wound under and below the right ear -- appearance of a knife wound; Dr. RUGGLES was attending him; also Drs. BROWNE, HUDSON & STOCKTON; all of them were there last Monday, April 1st, with intention of taking up an artery; they found him too weak with the loss of blood, and by request of deceased they postponed the operation till he gained more strength; I left him about 15 minutes past 10 oclock last night in charge of the watchman, Mr. GERITZHOFF; the watchman called me at the time deceased was dying -- 20 minutes past 1 oclock; I could press the end of my thumb in the wound; he bled a good deal; the last bleeding was at half-past 5 oclock last night, and before that at 15 minutes past 4 oclock yesterday; I stopped it; he did not bleed any more after the last time I stopped it, at half-past 5 oclock.
James DARCY, sworn -- I know the deceased; he went by the name of Jack; about 4 weeks ago, about half-past 7 oclock in the evening (I cannot tell the day), Frank MOSS and myself were talking in the Mozart Saloon in Kalishers building, on Sutter street, in this city; I noticed this man Jack go behind the counter; about this time James SATTERLEE came in and asked Frank MOSS if he had told him that Jack had stolen his pistol; Mr. MOSS answered that he had not said anything about it; about that time deceased rushed out from behind the bar, and coming toward SATTERLEE in a threatening manner, said to SATTERLEE that he had heard enough about the pistol, and wanted no more of it, and placed his fist under SATTERLEEs nose and called him (SATTERLEE) a d--d son of a b----h and an old thief; SATTERLEE stood and did not offer to resent it; Jack walked off about 4 steps, and SATTERLEE said you can’t cover up your tracks but what I can find it out; at this time Jack turned and came toward SATTERLEE again; they clinched, or rather came together; I saw the deceased partly fall, and he said, he has a knife; I pulled SATTERLEE back; deceased called to Frank MOSS to go for a doctor; I told deceased to run himself for a doctor, as he hadn’t much time; I noticed blood on the floor, from a wound as I supposed; I did not see the wound, and all at once deceased was out on the sidewalk and speaking to somebody; Jack was crawling under a table when he said go for a doctor; I did not see any knife in SATTERLEEs hands; did not see any in deceaseds possession; deceased was doing chorse about the saloon.
DR. CLARK, sworn -- I saw the wound; I should judge that I saw it about 2 weeks after the cutting; it was a punctured wound in the back part of the neck; an artery was cut and a pulsating tumor was formed and there was bleeding from this wound connecting with the tumor; Dr. BROWNE put on a compress at the time and stopped the bleeding; I think the nature of the wound would cause death, unless the artery was secured.
FRANK MOSS, sworn -- The affray between SATTERLEE and the deceased happened at my saloon, the Mozart, about 3 weeks ago, about half-past 7 oclock in the evening; I had my back to them during the affray; did not know deceased was cut until I saw him under the table bleeding; heard deceased say that SATTERLEE had a knife in his hand; saw a knife in SATTERLEEs hand after deceased was cut; SATTERLEE stood back of Jack with a knife in his hand as Jack crept under the table; saw the knife afterward.
DR. BROWNE, sworn -- About from 3 to 5 weeks ago, I was called to Betts drug store, under Yosemite House, to see a man who had been stabbed; when I arrived there, I saw this man John BLAIR, usually known as Three fingered Jack, in the back room of the drug store very much exhausted from hemorrhage; on examination I found a punctured wound on the right side of the neck, below and behind the right ear; I introduced a pair of forceps into the wound, and was fortunate enough to secure the artery, upon which several attempts were made by myself and Dr. STOCKTON to ligate it, but unsuccessfully; tortion was then made by the forceps, and when the forceps was removed and the artery released there was no further bleeding; the wound was then filled with mansel salt, a compress placed upon the neck over the wound, and he was put to bed, with directions that he should remain there all night; no further bleeding occurred that night and it was supposed that the mansel salt and the compression had permanently stopped the hemorrhage; in the morning he was removed to the Washington Garden on Market street, where a room and a nurse had been provided for him by Mr. SATTERLEE; that day, during the afternoon I think, I was called to see him by the nurse, and found that he had been bleeding again; Dr. HUDSON was there when I arrived and had stopped the bleeding by compression with his finger; we then contrived and adjusted another compress which prevented the artery from bleeding, and then left; the artery cut in this wound was the occipital, a branch of the carotid artery, which had never been ligated, except upon its extremity on the back part of the head; I attended him 4 or 5 days, every day, after the last compress was placed upon it; at the expiration of that time, I think 5 or 6 days after the injury was inflicted, I discharged the case, believing that no further surgical or medical attention was required; I did not see him again until last Wednesday, I think an interval of about 2 or 3 weeks; deceased then came into my office, saying that he had a gathering on the side of his neck, which I examined and found to be an aneurismal tumor; I asked him if he had any place to go where he could be attended; his reply was that he had not means to procure lodging and attendance; I advised him to go to the Hospital, to which he consented; while he was in my office he commenced bleeding from this aneurism; I stopped it and called on Dr. RUGGLES to get him a permit for the Hospital, which was given; he then went to the Hospital; I saw him last Monday at 2 oclock at the Hospital, for the purpose of assisting him in tying the carotid artery, but he had just a slight hemorrhage before our arrival there, and objected to the operation being performed at that time; the operation was therefore postponed for that reason, and because we thought it better for the patient it should be postponed; the physicians present were Drs. HUDSON, RUGGLES, STOCKTON and myself; last evening it was determined that we would endeavor to perform the operation this morning; I think the artery was of sufficient capacity when severed to produce death, unless the hemorrhage was arrested.
DR. RUGGLES, sworn -- I am County Physician; I received the deceased under my care, 1 week ago today, last Wednesday; I first saw the patient in Dr. BROWNEs office, with a compress over the wound, which successfully arrested the flow of blood; I gave a permit for the Hospital, sent him out in a carriage, and gave the Steward strict orders to watch him day and night; deceased continued very comfortable, no bleeding, until Sunday; whilst at the water closet, bleeding commenced, a patient says to the extent of a quart, but the Steward thinks not so much; I was satisfied that the carotid artery must be tied; I called in as counsel Drs. HUDSON, STOCKTON & BROWNE; the man on Monday afternoon was in such a condition that a result of the consultation it was deemed best not to operate at that time; deceased very strongly objected to the operation himself, wanted more show as he called it; we adjusted a compress which successfully prevented the flow of blood until yesterday noon, Tuesday, when he bled slightly; it was easily stopped by the Steward; about 5 oclock he bled slightly again; Dr. HUDSON and myself went out and found that the bleeding had not been to any great extent; we then made arrangements, the patient not objecting, to tie up the carotid artery this morning; before the time arrived, the patient died.
POST MORTEM -- County of San Joaquin -- At a post mortem examination of the body of John BLAIR, this 3rd day of April, by the undersigned, we find a punctured wound of the right occipital artery; also, organic fatty degeneration of the left kidney. In the heart we discovered large emboli in both right and left ventricles, extending into the aortic artery. It is our opinion that he died from the obstruction of the circulation of blood from these clots. We are unable to say how long these emboli have been forming.
(Signed) C.A. RUGGLES, M.D.; A.T. HUDSON, M.D.
VERDICT -- State of California, county of San Joaquin: We, the undersigned jurors, summoned by the Coroner this 3rd day of April, 1872, to investigate into the cause of the death of a man who died at the County Hospital, do find that his name was John BLAIR, and that he came to his death on this day, at the County Hospital, caused by a knife wound in the right side of the neck, below the right ear, inflicted by one James SATTERLEE, on the night of the 6th of March, 1872, at Mozart saloon in this city and county.
(Signed) G.W. MALONE, E.R. ROBERTS, N.J. SAULSBURY, H. TINKHAM, A.J. ROSS, Geo. HATT.
The body was buried by the Coroner yesterday afternoon. Deceased was a native of Maine.
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