The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-19
CORPSE
AND MAN DYING
Police Discover Son of Wealthy Mar
on Verge of Death.
MURDER is SUSPECTED
BODY OF cHINAMAN is NOT FAT
AWAY.

4 DWARF BAER, known in san
Lake as Eddie Merode. son, OF
wealthy manufacturer OF viii
mington, \. c., was found at
o'clock yesterday morning living face
downward, unconscious and dying, at the
bottom of a flight of stairs at s. Plum
Alley. Upstairs, sitting bolt upright il
bed was the corpse Of Lee Lung Hupe
Baer was apparently drugged with opium.
dragged from Lee Lung lungs 'joint
and pitched head foremost down a flight
Of stairs to the second landing. The po-
lice are convinced that the young man
was robbed. For hours the police Off
GERS worked over the unconscious man.
City Physician Charles f. Wilcox and
DR.. c. NJ. Benedict attended him, bur
he died about clock last night with
out telling what had happened to him.
The death of the Chinaman is believed
10 be due TO taking too much opium.
All Wong, better known as Tramp
Jimmy, Is under arrest until his con-
nectiOn with the possible robbery and
murder can be better determined
Baer was found BY Chinese woman.
who reported 1t 10 the police shortly after
o'clock, She told where he was lying
and that he was apparently dead. The
woman left the police station before the
desk sergeant was able TO dispatch an Of
searched Chinatown yesterday after
noon, but they were unable TO find her
Corpse Found in Bed.
Sergeant r. L. Eddington and Police
OFFICER Thomas simpson were detailed ON
the case. Baer was found lying uncou-
sciOUs in the hall and il was evident that
he had been drugged or had been sm0k-
ing hop. Climbing the stairs theE
tried the door 10 Lee Lung Hung hop
joint II was locked but they forced au
entrance. The gTuesOme sight of the
corpse Of Lee Lung Hung sitting upright
on "A filthy bunk met their eyes The
body was cold and stiff. The eyes bulged
from their sockets. Life had been eN-
tiuct for hours and perhaps a day. the
dingy room reeked with opium fumes. IL
was apparent that hop had been smoked
lin there within the last few hours. From
the room across the dusty hallway 10 the
head Of the stairs we're traces where
Baers body had been dragged and kicked
down TO the landing below.
Tramp Jimmy Getting Breakfast.
In the further end Of the room An
Wong, otherwise known as TRAMP Jim
my" was tanning the red not Goals into
a blaze In an old broken stove. lie was
preparing a small pot of rice for break
fast. Tramp Jimmy dropped his poker
when the Officers entered the place. Al
first he tried TO make his escape but was
cOllared. The Celestial was Immediately
put under arrest and Sergeant Eddlnglon
called for the patrol wagon. Baer was
taken 10 the emergency hospital at the
ial and All Wong was placed IN cell
Further search was made I'm the opium
joint but nothing was found. The Off
GERS searched i'm vain for hop outfit
or money that had been taken from Baef.
Several attempts were made 10 IND OuI
from An WOng when Lee Lung Huns
died or what had befallen young Baer,
but the only information the prisoner
impaired to the Officers was:
Me no sabe
Or. WucOX was summoned. He made
use of the stomach pump on BaeT and
said the man was suffering from opium
poisoning. Hypodermic injections were
given him and the electric battery was
applied TO keep him from sinking into
stupor. For time il looked as If he
wOu4- recover. Officer &. a. Carlson
had IN on mis- feet walking him around
the Jail for nearly an hOur, but he Wa~
unable to talk. He gradually grew weak
er and after a hard fight for ten hours
died.
Addicted to Opium.
All Wong refused 90 "sabe" anything
the officers said 10 him and another
search of the .'jOint" was made. SeN-
eraI other Celestials were gathered iir
but nobody knew how he came TO be iE-
ing unconscious in the hallway. An WAN
keeper Of the noodle joint in the base
ment of . Plum Alley. said that Baer
had been i'm there about ! o clock that
morning. lie also informed the Officers
tldL ne Idu DcEil Ltltit 1t-h 81 al tilileo tii
fore in the last month and afterwards
gone up stairs. II is believed that he
was addicted to using hop and went up
there 10 smoke. An Wah said that he
believed Baer went upstairs yesterday
morning after eating bowl Of noodles.
This is the last trace Of Basr that Is
known until he was found lying at the
foot of the stairs. 1t Is the belief or
the police that Baer went M 10 the
Joint" 10 smoke opium and either got
ii pill" of green hop" which IS deadly
poison or was induced 10 drink gum
hop tea" which poisoned him. IL ls
known that Ali Wong drinks this tea
which produces the same effect as smok-
ing hop" but much stronger.
Money All Gone.
Just how much money Baer had Oh hiin
is not known. but when he was found
not cent was in his pockets. Friends
who left Baer about midnight say ne
had been drinking "a great deal and had
a check for $40 and about Slb IN silver
1t is thought that Baer spent all this Tor
HOP" and for this reason the officers
believe he was robbed