Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-09 | Page 22 | Witness in Brooks Case Poison Victim

WITNESS IN BROOKS CASE POISON VICTIM Analysis of the stomach of William ("Scottte") Scott, a negro, who died on the eve of being called as a witness for the state against Thomas and Maud Linker and William Brooks, a negro, charged with murder for the shooting of Joseph Briggs last January 13, showed the presence of morphine in amount sufficient suf-ficient to constitute an overdose, according accord-ing to the report of State Chemist Herman Her-man Harms, submitted yesterday afternoon after-noon to County Attorney Richard Hartley. Hart-ley. The negro was to have been called June 16 as a witness for the .state iii the preliminary pre-liminary hearing that resulted in the holding of the three defendants for trial in the Third district court. He died June 15, and the body was removed on an order of the police lo the Quail rough-Alleott undertaking establishment. There it was em balmed.