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Show FOUR ROLES TAKEN BY VEBSATILE DEFENDANT Fred Wilson Appears as Prisoner, Pris-oner, Attorney, Accused and Interrogator. Prisoner, attorney, Interrogator of his alleged accomplice and defendant "were tho roles assumed by Fred Wilson In .police .po-lice court Thursday morning. Wilson and John Delaney arc charged with having attempted to dynamite the structural steel work of Iho Utah hotel December '20. Shortly after the opening of the hearing, hear-ing, Delaney took tho witness stand In his own behalf. Wilson cross-examined his alleged partner with a vigor that caused considerable amusement In the court room. Wilson succeoded In bringing out tlio fact that Deltipcy served time In a penitentiary at Birmingham, Ala., and also accused Delaney of attempting to wrock the Utah hotel steel work with dynamite. It was early apparent that there was no love existing between Wilson and Delaney. De-laney. Wilson mingled sarcasm with accusation, ac-cusation, and Delaney did not hesitato to inject Ringer Into his answers to Wilson's questions. , The hearing dragged along for more than an hour, and Wilson was still busy Urine questions al his alleged partner In crime when Judge Bowman ordered on adjournment until Friday morning. Wilson Wil-son announced that It would take at least an liour for him to complete his cross-ex-aniinalton. Delaney was also interrogated by Walter Wal-ter W. Kittle, special prosecutor in the case. Wilson Is acting as his own attorney, attor-ney, while Delaney is without represenln-tlont represenln-tlont In the hearing an alleged plot to extort money from the Deseret News was alluded tonnd tt was stated by Wilson that ho had pawned an SPr set of false, teeth for $10 when ho was short of funds. |