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Show PHILDROOK IS HELD ; FOR QUIGLEY MURDER' Stale Chemist and County , Physician Find No Trace of Chloral. i MORPHINE IS PRESENT Witnesses, However, Do Not Say Death Was Due to That Drug. PGl'KN. Feb. n.--Vrauk Philbrook, ii-cvl Dl' hoiug Wen the ringleader the si loo o.i killing of Patrick Quig Icy in this city on the niht of January 1. ik.iM stand trial in the district court on a chure ot first-degree murder Tins ss the decision of Judf;o George S. Hark or today hi the conclusion of the preliminary trial iu the municipal cOvirt. The Theory of local officers that tho sgd minor came to his death by chloral poioning was not t reug t hoiicd today nhen Herman Harms, stale chemist, and Dr. A. A. Robinson, county physician, tosti f icd tliat analysis and examinat ion showed no trace of t bat drug. The state chemist Testified, however, that he found a minute amount of unab sorb-M morphine. In the amount of stomach contents taken for the analysis Mr. Harms said he found about oue eightieth of a grain of the drug. Trace? of this drug, the chemist testified, were found in the dead man 's stomach, liver, intestines and bladder. On cross-examination by Attorney ( hi i stien ti e state chemist refused to i;o on record as to whether Qmgley had or had not di .1 from lhe effects of :norj hi ne. On this point he sHid that t no grains of tho drug might pro e a fatal dose for a normal pe rsou, but would be more likely to cau0 death in esse the victim was intoxicated. All evideu-o at the preli miliar v trial tended tend-ed to show that Quigley had been drinking. drink-ing. Beer Is Purchased. A a means of corroborating certain points brought out in the early stage? of the preliminary trial, Richard Pin-eock, Pin-eock, m reb.su t patrolman, testified to the fftors concerning the finding of Umigley's body at the rear of the Pen-t-- ete earlv o the morning of Jsnn-7 Jsnn-7 19. Phil.p Hrophy. a bartender at the Blue Ribbon saloon, on Twenty-fifth sr,,et, was introduced :is a now witness Nfor the state, tes'ifying that' Philbrook Kad purchased three bottle? of beer at saloon between and 0 o'clock on tiw night of the alleged murder. This beer is supposed to have furnished the material in which Phil brook administered adminis-tered some drug to Quigley during the party in M rs. Fannie Dawson 's rooming room-ing house. Dr. Robinnn first t-tifi'M that the wounds found on Quigley's head wero superficial and could not have caused his death. For further investigation of the case the county physician said he had removed from the body the brain, stomach and liver, oue kidney, several feet of the small intestines and other vital organs. From his limited I examination of these organs Dr. Robinson Robin-son testified that he found no chloral and admitted on cros-examination that . had failed to determine a definite cause of death. The physician offered no testimony regarding morphine. No Chloral Found. The detailed report of State fbetn-it fbetn-it Harms on his analysis of the contents con-tents of the vitHl organs was not introduced in-troduced in evidence, but he testified that a!l of the organs were free from j chloral. Fxcept for a minute amount of morphine, the state chemist said he found no poison other than a small portion por-tion of alcohol. He had used twelve ounces in all of the contents of the stomach and other organs and in this amount had detected about one-eightieth uf a grain of morphine. After Mr. Harms had bn cross-examined both the state and defense rented rent-ed their case without argument, but at the suggestion of Judge Barker Coun-l Coun-l v Attorney .Tor-eph K. Evans made a brief argument in the form of a review re-view of the evidence. This was answered an-swered bv Attorney Chris ten sen, who declared that the state had failed utterly ut-terly to prove the first step in its procedure, pro-cedure, that the crime of murder had Nbeen committed. Presuming that Quig-ey Quig-ey had died of so-called natural causes, Se attorney argued that it was no crime for Philbrook. O'Brien and Powers Pow-ers to carry the body out of the rooming room-ing house and drop it in the alley. Produces Laughter. Whv. thev do worse than that down at the 'University of L'tah," asserted Attorney Ohristensen. "The students down there take a body and throw it in a pickle vat until "they are ready to cut it up.T' The grewsomn jocularity jocular-ity of the attorney brought a round of guffaws from the crowd of men and women that filled the courtroom to the railing and overflowed into the hall. At tiie conclusion of the bearing Phil-brook Phil-brook was taken back to the county jail in custody of Sheriff J. L. nob-son. nob-son. Attorney christeusen conferred with his client in the sheriff "a office later, but announced that he would mae no effort to obtain the man's release re-lease on habeas corpus proceedings. He cpres-ed an opinion that an information informa-tion charging Philbrook with first-decree mfirder would never be filed by the district attorney, because of the la.-k of evidence as shown at the preliminary. |
