The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-10
Found Dead in the Rear of g
Gambling Hall.
A BLOOD CLOT ON THE BRAIN.
Result OF Wound on the Side OF the
Head.
He Was Waiter al the Tunnel Cafe-Th.
Verdict of the Coroner's Jury Kept
Back Till Monday-Has no
Relatives Here.

very mysterious death occurred In the
rear of the Wasatch gambling rooms over
/ the Congress saloon on East Second South
street late on Friday night or early yes
terday morning. The victim was waiter
named Ed Hefner employed at the Tun-
mel cafe.
The facts appeared to be that Heffner
and another waiter-George Brielich-in
the same establishment left the cafe about
So'cJock on Friday evening, after taking
supper and RECALLING themselves with
drink at the bar. Heffner complained OF
suffering with toothache and proposed
trying his luck at
GAME OF FARO
in order, as he said, to divert his mind
from the aching tooth. The pair dropped
into the Oxford saloon and had another
drink, after which Hefner called al Lich-
tenstein's pawnbroking establishment
and ''soaked' his watch and chain for
81 to start him at the gambling table.
They then proceeded to the Wasatch
gambling house, calling in at the Con-
gress saloon and INDUCING in another
hbacion before proceeding upstairs and
at $3.50 Heffner seated himself at one OF
the faro tables in the rear of the room and
COMMENCED PLAYING,
stalking 81 as a start. Before the turn
was called he complained OF being sick,
and asked Brielicb to take his seat and
play the hand whilst be started for
lavatcry in the rear of the hall. Brielich
played the hand with the result that the
dollar staked won another dollar when
he vacated his seat and sought his friend
in the lavatory; before doing SO he, how
ever, staked the 81 on another round.
Brielich says he
FOUND HEFFNER VERY SICK,
and remained with him a few minutes
and then returned to learn the fate of his
second venture, which proved not salts
factory as the stake had been lost. He
then quit The game and again sought
Heffner, but could not fnd him, and sup
posing he had LETT the room Brielich also
departed shortly before 9 O'Clock. That
ended Brielich' IS knowledge of the affair.
Charles Harrison, also waiter aid an
acquaintance of Hefner, says he saw him
about this time sitting on window sill
at the rear of the building and shortly al
ter observed him
LAYING ON THE METAL ROOF
of shed about three or four feet below
the window in an unconscious condition,
and went out to get a carriage and obtain
assistance in conveying the sick man to
his room.
Directly after the departure of Harrison,
Heffner was found by Billy Mountain,
bartender at the Congress saloon,
LAYING ON THE GROUND
twelve or thirteen feet below the roof on
which he was said to have been seen.
When so found he presented the appear
ance OF being intoxicated, no marks of
violence being visible. On an examina-
] uroc hn
ill, and DR.. Hicks was sent for, but he
was beyond medical aid and
EXPIRED a FEW MINUTES AFTER
the arrival of DR.. Hicks.
The body was removed to Sleeves &
Sons undertaking parlors and an autopsy
held by Doctors Hicks and Plummer.
The doctors reported that they found
BLOOD cLoT
on the right side OF the brain, which they
testified was the cause of death. An in
quest was called by Coroner Taylor, with
Q. M. Hammond, Dan Camomile and
Thomas Borlase as jurors, who returned
verdict which the coroner announced
would not be made public until tomor-
row, when 1t is supposed the case will be
put into the hands of the
GRAND JURY FOR INVESTIGATION.
The only mark of violence on the body
was severe bruise on the neck and side
of the head mot at first visible on account
of the thick black hair, on which the
blood clot on the brain was found, the
ciot being the result of the wound.
There are several theories as to how he
came to his death. One is that he fell
from the window on which he was seen
sitting on to the roof and thence to the
ground and SO received his death wound.
Another is that whilst sitting on the
window
HE WAS sLUGGED
and thrown down by some party who
supposed he had a good deal OF money on
his person. A third theory is that he
made his way down the rear stairs into
the open air and there met his fate in
some unknown manner.
The deceased was twenty-five years of
age, unmarried and had no relatives in
this territory. A sister living in St.
Louis was apprised of his death and asked
her desires as to the disposition of the re-
mains.