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Show I; I .VICTIM OF DRUG DIES I ALONE IN HIS ROOM Ij "' Salt Lake, Jan. l3Ed Tuttle, bet- 9 ter known as W. H. McDonald, and H' veil known in police circles, died U Thursday night in a room at 49 Vic- MlJ ttoria alley. Ml McDonald for years had been aslavo B to the drug TiaJblt and had served Ml many terms in the city jail for va- H. prancy. Ills body was discovered by 3 George Gentry, maaiager of the room- JB' Ing house mentioned, which almost H exclusively Ib patronized by negroes. IV Coroner Harper was notified and de- H elded that no official Inyuest was H; jieccssary, death evidently being duo H' to natural causes. Tuttle Is bolieved to have relatives H ta Los Angeles who are well to do, M information to this offect being W'. pleancd. from Efflc McDonald, a vie- i tlm of the drug habit, too, with whom H McDonald had long, associated. Ho fljf -was liberated from the city Jail Jan- unry 2, after serving a sixty-day scn-I scn-I ' toncc. I " Tho boIy was taken to tho under- I) l taking establishment of Qualtrough & tt 6 Alcott, 344 South Main street, where 1 It will be hold pending an invcstlgn- l I Hon by tho authorities to locato Uio L j dead man's relatives. |