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Show I POM FOUND, BUI PHILBROOK IS ED BY COURT The result of a chemical test of Patrick Pat-rick Quigley's stomach whom Frank Philbrook is alleged to have poisoned Jnnuary 17th, was disclosed yesterday yester-day afternoon In the testimony of stato Chemist Herman Harms at the preliminary hearing before Municipal Judge George S. Barker. Mr Harms was the principal witness. He testified testi-fied that ho had found no trace of chloral poisoning and but very little morphine It has been tho theory of tho prosecution prose-cution that Qulgloy was given chloral poison, commonly known as "knockout "knock-out drops," but the testimony of the state chemist upsets the theory. Dr. A. A. Robinson also tested the stomach stom-ach for chloral poisoning and found none, his conclusions being practically the same as that of the state chemist. Notwithstanding the adverse testimony testi-mony of the chemist respecting the theory of murder by poisoning, Judge Barker decided that there was sufficient suffi-cient evidence to warrant a conclusion conclu-sion of probable cause and Philbrook was held to answer before the district court on a charge of murder In the first degree. Both Dr. Robinson and Chemist Harms were of the opinion that poison had been administered and that the system had absorbed much of It. It was not said, however, whether there had been enough poison consumed by the body to have caused death. Chief Deputy Sheriff J L Hobson testified to the arrest of Qulgley and related some of the circumstances connected with the affair |