The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-17
CORONER'S JURY
HEARS EVIDENCE
Testimony at Reilly Inquest as
to Giving of Drugs by
Old Woman.
MUCH COCAINE WAS USED
INQUIRY is DELAYED TO SECURE
ANOTHER WITNESS.
MUCH COCAINE WAS USED

After a dozen witnesses had been ex-
Rmined at the inquest into the death of
James Reilly yesterday afternoon, an
adjournment was taken until o'clock
Friday afternoon, when more testimony
will be taken in the case. After hearing
the evidence of John Friedrichs and
Charles A Hager, who have been held
as witnesses since the death of Reilly,
Judge Dana T. Smith ordered their re-
lease from custody yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Amelia Dudley. or Friedrichs. who
admitted giving Reilly two injections of
cocaine. is still locked up in the city
Jail, pending the coutcome of the cor
oner's inquest.
On the stand Mrs Dudley told her story
practically as she related it to the Of
ffcers the night of her arrest. She said
that Reilly. whom she had never seen
before, CANE to the shoeShop of Fried
Tichs. at 415 West Second South street, on
the morning of Sept. 26. and asked her TO
give him some cocaine. She gave him a
note, which he took TO drug store and
secured 10 cents worth Of cocaine, or
about two and one-half grains.
Admits Giving Cocaine.
In the morning she gave him an in
lection of about one-third of the amount.
and he went away When he returned in
the evening she gave him another injec-
ton. using up the rest of his vial of the
was ~ cocaine fiend and for this reason
she gave him the poison. The woman
also volunteered the information that CO.
caine was not dangerous, and said that
she was an habitual user of the drug, oft
en- using a great deal more than she gave
Reilly.
DIR. e w Whitney however. testified
that half a grain of cocaine was suf-
ficient to cause death unless the person
using il were a cocaine fiend He also
said that from the physical condition of
Reilly, as shown by the autopsy. be did
not believe that Reilly was a user of
the drug. He said that he believed
enotgh cocaine had been given him TO
cause death, especially as his condition
was weakened by a prolonged spree and
lack of nourishment. The doctor said.
however, that death might possibly have
been caused by the excessive use of al
cohol. without the aid of the cocaine ad-
ministered though il was more than like
" a combination of the two poiSons which
caused the mans death.
Herman Harms the chemist who made
the ANALYSIS OF the dead mans stomach.
said that he found an excess of cocaine in
the organs which he examined. He also
said that the tissues showed the presence
of alcohol, though the indica tons were
that he was not an habitual drunkard.
Tell Manner of Death.
John Friedrichs and Charles Hagar
said they were in the shoeshop when Rel
" came I'm there on the evening of his
death. They said that he went to sleep
in the back room. and after while fell
over apparently in a fit. They took him
out Of doors and notified the police
Patrolmen Nephi Pierce and y. II. Sea-
ger were called to the scene on the night
of the death of Reilly. and they told of
taking him to the emergency hospital in
the patrol wagon and afterward arrest
ing the two men and the woman.
6. G. Knowles, Brigham II. West J. H
McHuSh. David b. Harmon arH Il. s.
Jenkins fellow employees of Reilly told
of going to the shOeshop just prior TO the
arrival Of the patrol wagon and finding
Reilly in an unconscious state, gasping
for breath as he lay on the ground al
the rear OF the shop. They said he al
ways bore "a good character, though he
was somewhat of "A periodical drunkard
James O'Boyle of Scofield. who it il
said was with Reilly all day prior to his
death, might be subpoenaed.