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Show CUTLIP NOW BEFORE A JURY , In Judge J. A HowoH's division of the district court this mornln?, the trial of Luther Cutllp, charged wltli robbery ,was taken up and a Jury cm-paneled cm-paneled as follows. L. M. Hess, Gus Thorn, Henry A. Mclntyre, George E. Hlgley. Robert Cowan, R. E. Chatclain, George E. Taylor and James Harrop. The Information against young Cutllp Cut-llp alleges that on December IS, 1911, at tho point of a revolver, he held up and robbed Harold Parry and Her- bert Hinley of two stickpins, some ; money, a gold watch and a finger ring. ! The jury was empaneled Just before the noon hour, tho only witness testifying tes-tifying beforo adjournment being Harold Parry, who staled that he and Hinley were accosted at Twenty-second street and Washington avenue, on the night of December IS. last year, by two men holding revolvers in thoir hands. The command to "throw up your hands" was complied with and tho robbers took from his pockets a stickpin and a $50 watch. He could not say that either of the men was tho defendant and, in describing tho holdups, pictured them as being rather heavier men than Cutlip. Judging from the lino of questioning question-ing of the Jury when tho panel was being secured, tho defendant will undertake un-dertake to provo an alibi Tho officers claim to have found some of the stolen property In Cut-lip's Cut-lip's possession soon after tho robbery, but tho defendant will undertake to show that ho galncx possession honestly hon-estly and from oter parties, who have since left the ity. |