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San Antonio Daily Express
Friday, 9 December, 1881

         Galveston, December 8 - WILLIE CLARK, a sailor on board
       the sloop, Genera Ball, laying at Elevator Slip, was found
       dead this morning in the cabin. An inquest was held and
       testimony elicited the fact that CLARK resided at Turtle
       Bay, in Chambers county and was about twenty-five years
       old and yesterday was at work discharging wood from the
       sloop. He complained of feeling sick. He went to a drug
       store and procured some medicine. Capt. Davis, master of
       the sloop, stated that the last time he saw CLARK was
       about 11 of 12 o'clock last night, when he wanted to sleep
       on the deck but that he advised him to go below and keep
       out of the dew, and saw nothing more of him until he found
       him dead in the cabin this morning. He also states that he
       gave him a dose of morphine, about as much as could be held
       on the point of a penknife, yesterday; that CLARK wanted
       more but that he would not give it to him; that he left the
       bottle of morphine in the cabin, and could not say whether
       CLARK took any more of it or not. The morphine in the bot-
       tle was weighed and had 35 grains in it. Dr. Veers, the
       druggist who put up the morphine for Capt. Davis was not
       positive whether he put up 36 or 38 grains of the drug.
       Dr. McKenzie, a Johnson county physician, after hearing
       the evidence, gave it as his opinion that the deceased
       came to his death by an overdose of morphine, and the jury
       so found, directing that CLARK'S remains should be sent to
       his sister in Chambers county for interment.
       
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