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Show O'NEILL PLEADS HE . WAS INTOXICATED Intoxication was the defense offered by Thomas O Weill vest erday in the district court when lie w;is tried on the charge of bwrhuy in the second decree, mid the d.-fense brought an ac-(piiUal ac-(piiUal from the .jury. O Weill was clmrged with having entered en-tered the home of W illiam W. Murdo'-h, . oh'7 Fast Fifth South street, on May , 0. The defendant admitted that he had gone into the resilience, but contended that ho was drunk at the time and h;id no intention of thieving. John Hurt, testifying for the defendant, corroborated corrobo-rated the story of a spree. |