The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-21
LlTTLEFIELD
WAS POISONED
City Chemist Harms Files His
Report With County Attorney.
DETAILS ARE KEPT SECRET
DECEASED WAS A VICTIM OF
KNOCKOUT DROPS"

The chemical analysis Of tbs contents
of the stomach Of George II. Tittlefield
shows that his death on the morning OF
June was from the effects Of a poison.
The circumstances surrounding the case
lead to the belief that the young man
was the victim of knockout drops" the
administration Of which resulted IN a
murder. The object evidently was purely
robbery. IS the mans pockets were
turned INSIDE out when he was picked UP
in an Unconscious condition by the police.
Who administered the fatal dose to
Littlefield. and where he drank the poison
IS unknown. The result of the analysis
viii be made known to the coroner jury
when it reassembles to continue its in
vestigatiOn of the case next Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock
The stomach and contents We're turned
over to City Chemist Herman Harms for
analysis the same day that Littlefield
died. He was instructed 70 look for every
kind of poison Ever since that day the
chemist has been at work upon the case
He concluded his labors yesterday morn
ing when ne filed with County Attorney
WesterVelt report upon the result OF
his chemical analysis.
Found Traces of Poison.
Just what the report contains is not
generally known. Those who do know
the result OF the analysis refuse to di-
vulge It. The only Information they VIII
give out is that the report contains
'something startling" Chemist Harms
refused absolutely yesterday to discuss
preston that q sensation" might be
looked for when his report was read to
the jury County Attorney Westervelt
said last evening that he had the report
upon his desk in his office, but did not
know what its contents were, as the re-
port is in a sealed envelope. From other
sources it was learned that the CITY
chemist found traces of poison, presum-
ably morphine.
LittIefield was found in an unconscious
condition early on the morning of June o.
The police discovered him lying along
side pile of lumber on Commercial al
ley. which runs east and west between
Commercial street and South State street,
in the rear of the National restaurant.
At first it was thought TO be a case OF
liquor. The fact that the mans pockets
were found to be turned inside out, and
he did not respond TO the usual methods
employed by the police TO restore a
drunken man to consciousness. made the
police believe that they had another case
of Knockout drops" similar to the
Ryan murder in Victoria alley
Never Regained Consciousness.
LittlefieId was taken to police head
quarters, and DR.. c. n Benedict sum
moned. he worked over the PROSTATE
man for more than six hours, but was IN
able to even restore him to consciousness.
That evening a post mortem was helo,
and the stomach and its contents turned
over to City Chemist Harms
Letters found among the effects of the
man showed that he had wife and other
relatives residing in Washington. D. ca
and Springvale, Ne. lt Is tnougnt mat
field of Maine His Washington relatives
were communicated with, and the re-
mains were shipped to the national capt
tai for intermeut. The afternoon or the
day Littlefield was given his dose Oh
poison he came from Ogden, Where ne
had been employed BY the Soutnern "a
ciffc road Prior to that he had worked
at Mare Island, San Francisco, NaileJo'
Cal, and IN a quarry near MAMA +. l.