Show 1 I I l NEED OF PUBLIC DEFENDER SHOWN That the seeming leen l s Ae ot et 4 Jus- Jus Uce lc in at Jt least on one I local I case might hale oe haleen been en prevented hn had 1 there been a public defender In the Ice er of or the tha district court ourt ou t In this district ct la IB a a. contention made mada by Attorney D. D L L. L Oleson with offices In Inha Inthe inthe the ha Walker bank building The Tha case ase Is 15 th that t of or Geor George e Harris Hittl charged har d with the robbery rObber of or the Saltair SaltUr par ar Sept September 4 halt lait The They Saltair Salta-Ir bar was vas held up p about 1150 o clock o'clock on the night of or September 4 last lut Attorney Oleson fa ras s. s and the th bartender fired tired upOn th the robber who es- es aped Later In the same night George Harris was arrested b bf bt the tho p police once In tb the Clarence rooming house When he was arrested he told the police that c ho he had hall been shot In tho the leg cg by the a dl discharge charge of a t. t re revolver r on n a Western estern Pacific car cat at the Den Denver r Rio Grande passenger station Harris said tha that he had booked for fora a lob jOb with It a local employment agency ogency under an assumed assured name t to be shipped to to Arnold Acv l' l N v. v He said his companions were two brothers hose names namo were them with Metford and that he was Ras with them In Inthe the he car when he was shot In estl Investigations A. A lons made at the tho time lime and reported In one of the tho local newspapers corroborated he Ute statement that there had been an accidental shooting hooting In a a Western l Pacific car ear at about the time and nd place H Harris said he he was shot hot Harris however howe was WU h held ld to the district dis district dis- dis dais tract court on a a. charge of or robbery y and the tho Jury disagreed dis- dis upon his trial last February agreed and he was i again remanded to ains the county Jail jaU to await awalt new trial In the me meantime howe hoever that complaint complaint com corn plaint against him was wu dismissed and a n new v complaint was waa filed file agar against t him bl charging him with still sUlI an another robbery city tn in n the southwestern part of ot the tho city on the sane sam Jm nl night ht Harris Is without men means meins and without friends d and the district court appointed t ie him about a 11 week ago to defend m me against this second charge I ha ha c In in- in n- n his 1115 story carefully cardull and even evenie even at nt this late te d date te I have found much h to o corroborate his original story tot I have havethe C who rented him t the e found round the woman himat he room at ot the Clarenc Ciarence She la says 15 that at he he little after 1 12 o'clock went w to th the room a a. ho but so little after fter 12 o'clock that he could bar noted after not have gone gona from the S within rather the robbery to La the rooming morning house that time time- hi him when h n nhe Harris had a a. friend wi with th m he engaged d the room and seemed iet- iet remembers the coming of or the Police Policemen She eat men to th the room later and the arrest o of or Harris other sources I have been able From Grande station at the Rio to find a man an reco the shipment of ot m men n o othe on who ho the tM Western Pacific at nt that times n and that th that Western he heard a a. shot hot fired In th the car occupied by the working working- men The depot master muter who ho knew the circumstances Is out of ot the tha city at this time If there had been a defender In the service sen Ice of ot the people at the time Harris was wag first charged harg d with the crime it would have been an easy cas matter to hs have hae checked ed hi his story stor and If It he had I stated the tha facts to determine then that he lie was not the man wanted anted As It was oas be has hu been In jail U ne nearly eight m months o and these thue Is III no conclusive proof that he heis ho he hoIs Is I. not an Innocent man to whom horn a very grave Injustice has hU been done dont |