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Show ACCUSED LI IS HIS OWn LAVJYER ATJUBYTRIAL Jack d'Neil Croa Examine. Exam-ine. Accuaer but Fail, to Commit Witne..; Say. Identification Not Proper Jack OKell il yaaa- of ,,,, charged with robbery In connection with Id holding up af Carlo Berk-(ad. Berk-(ad. tl. attendaat at lb Conoco enric. .tatloa. Ninth Eaat and Third South afreet a.' April 14. acted aa hia awn attorney whoa hla caae wont Is trial before a Jury In Judge i Morris IV Ritchie', criminal dy. i ion ol tho Third dlatrlct court ta-dr. ta-dr. O'Nell, eomewhat reread In eourt procedure, tnn eiamlned Beckatead. Beck-atead. tho complaining wltneaa, and mado tho wttnou admit that he had leettflad at tho preliminary hearing I that tho man who hold hint un had brown eyea. whan aa a matter of fart the defendant a eyea are blue "Take a look at the eyee you eold were brown. Mr. Beckataad." O'N.II aald to the wltnaaa. "Ar thea the 'brown' eye that held you up?" "Tea." th wltnee aald. "tho are the eye that held me up." On direct examination Beckataad told the atory of Ihe holdup. He aald that ON. II and another man entered th service elation about I o'clock at night. Th wltneaa waa counting the caah. he aald. O'Nell. with gun In hand and leveled at the wltneaa. aald: ' "I'll take care of the money; yon get Into the other room." The wltneaa aald he replied to O'Xall: "All right, help your-aelf." your-aelf." The alleged rohbers took about 12a In caah and departed. Beckatead aald. Beckalead than told how he pick- eo out j isen at tne cut jail, wnere 1 seven or eight other prisoners had been lined up. He aald ha recog-niied recog-niied tha defendant by hla feat urea, etature, voico and complexion. O'NeU tried to maka the wltneee say that he might have seen tha defendant on tha street or soms other place and perhaps was con-fuead con-fuead as to hla Identity aa far as aealng him on tha night of the holdup hold-up waa concerned. Beckataad waa unshaken In this. Ha aald be also recognised O'N'eil's voice. Detective Bergrant L. 1. Larson, who conducted tha Identification session, slthaugh originally sub poenaed by the state, waa called by tha defense. O'Nell told the court that he called Larson as hla wltneaa wlt-neaa because the detective had need certain mathoda to specifically direct di-rect attention to him when in the observation room, whom Beckataad, from an adjoining darkened room, peered through abutters while the defendant was under questioning and examination by the -police. O'Nell then announced that he had another wltneaa, a Mies Carrie Car-rie Kellay. clerk at a hotel where he aaya ha paaeed his time on the night of the holdup. |