The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-14
DEAD IN VICTORIA ALLEY
WITH HIS POCKETS RIFLED
Believed That Foul Murder Has Been Committed
in the TenderIoin District
Daniel Ryan Pays Visit to One of the Houses and His Lees.
Body Is Found Later

thief the woman, probably sitting be-
SIDE him, deity cut his leather watch
/ chain. cut hole in the bottom of his
I pocket, and removed the watch. which
! according to Elliot, was an oDen-faced
/ silver affair. Fearing that he would
| miss the timepiece, she placed in his
I pocket the empty hunting case found
1 on him. His money was probably =
/ harder matter, and could not be taken
/ without detection. Then a drug was
/ called into use, dash Of powder or
a few drops Of liquid sleeping DC
/ ton placed in q glass OF beer deprived
: him Of consciousness, and the rest EFss
| easy.
Carried to an Clubhouse.
He probably remained in the roern,
! sleeping under the influence Of the
/ drug, until darkness came. and then.
! fearing that a search might be made
for him, Ryan, insensible and inert,
was carried to the clubhouse and laid
on the floor in the house. that when
he aroused from his sleep he would
be unable to say in which house ne
had been robbed or who had robbed
him.
This theory VIII not avail IL no poison
! Is found in the stomach, now in charge
Of the county attorney. In that case.
I the case viii present a study for sur
geOns. who are at present unable to
assign any cause OF death other than
that something which the man received
into his stomach caused it.
Ryan is known to have been in the
clubhouse at $50 o'clock. for at that
hour a Creole woman, living at No
40. went out to get bucket OF coal.
As she neared the clubhouse she heard
groans proceeding from it, and. fright
eEed, retraced her steps without the
coal. At Z O'Clock Friday night Jap
anese Annie" who has a room at No.
So, went out in her back yard She
was going to enter the clubhouse, but
when she placed her hand on the door
she heard sounds which resembled
those of a man strangling, and belieT-
ing that a drunken man was inside,
went back without investigating
Seen in the Alley.
Both of these women have Drao-
tically proved that they had no con-
nection with the affair and say that
they never saw the man. Other women
in the alley recognized him from de-
scriptions, as one Of three who had
walked up the alley on Friday and
whom they had fruitIessIy endeavored
to entice into their houses
When the police were notified By
Dutch George of his find, Sergeant
Eddington, accompanied by officers
Sperry and Carey, went to the scene.
They found Ryan lying on the floor
completely dressed. A slight froth
was visible about his mouth and there
was a flow Of moisture from his right
eye
A chemical examination of the con-
tents of the stomach viii probably be-
made today. 1t is believed, by others
than the police. and their belief is
practically backed up by the result of
the post mOrtem examination, that the
the man came to his death through
drugs administered by some Of the vO-
men inhabitants Of the houses
Theory Of the Police
The police assert that he died from
alcoholism, and in their support Of their
opinion they have the positive declar-
alton of the physicians who performed
the autopsy that he did not die from
alcoholism. Another superstition ad-
vanced by the police is that Ryan, If
he was drugged, received the. knock
OUT drops IN some one Of the Second
South street saloons, the rear doors OF
which are easily accessible from the
alley. They think it possible that the
man may have been drugged in one Of
these saloons and then, wandering out,
found the Clubhouse and crawled into
it to sleep.
Several Of the women living in the
alley are morphine fields, and therefore
have a supply Of the drug on hand At
the nearest drug store one OF the clerks
said that cOlOred women supposed 10
live in the alley, were almost daily pur-
chasers Of morphine. From the symp--
toms present on the body when 1t was
found, namely the froth around the
mouth. some incline to the belief that
this was the poison used, but the physi-
clans state that only the examination
Of The contents Of the stomach viii re-
veal the nature of the drug, if a drug
was used.
Not Dissipated Man.
Jack Elliot, the man who accom-
panied Ryan to the alley, says that he
has known the deceased for long time
and that he was wont to work for sew
eraI months steadily until he had
amassed some money, and then stOp
work and dissipate until the money was
gone The body shows no indications
of dissipation. The muscles are firm
and hard and the complexion clear.
showing that the man was not an
habitual drunkard.
Ryan came to Salt Lake from Kim
berley on Wednesday. He has two
cousins and an aunt named HyIand
living at Gold mountain and they have
been notified by Undertaken O'Donneu
of his death. An inquest VIII not be
held until the result Of the examination
of the contents of the stomach i
known This examination win be made
by City Chemist Harms