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Show 1 SALT LAKE HE SAW THE KILLING OF WHITE Salt Lake, Oct. 25. Facing an eyewitness eye-witness to the murder of Thomas "Eddie" White, Caleb A. Inlow, charged charg-ed with the crime, for the first time since his arrest showed Bigns of emotion emo-tion at the preliminary hearing before be-fore Justice Harry S. Harper yesterday yester-day afternoon. The witness, Alfred S.Rollo, an expert horticulturist of Elberta, "Utah county, said he saw the shooting. Inlow was visibly affected. affect-ed. "Can thoy convict a man on that evidence?" he asked in a nervous undertone. un-dertone. "Why, the witness does not know what part of the city ho was in. He does not know whether a man and a woman or whether it was two men who got out of the automobile." Rollo had testified that ono was a man, but he waB not sure of the sex of the other. He said both wore long coats. During a recess of the court Inlow approached Rollo and shook hands with him. He was beginning to interview inter-view the witness when County Attorney Attor-ney I. E. Willey drew Rollo aside. Tho prisoner had opened the conversation on the subject of fruit. Sirs. Davis, a sister of Mrs. Inlow, was again In the court room and attracted much attention. at-tention. She was impassive when Rollo testified. Unacquainted with the principals in tho case, Rollo was unablo to toll who was shoL Ho was not familiar with tho city, but described Ills movements so minutely, with the aid of a map furnished by the county attorney, that it was plain that he was at tho scene of tho crime, Third East street near Ninth South street, when "White was slain. He had boon over the route in tho morning with Willey and Sheriff Joseph C Sharp Identifies Auto. It is understood that evidence to the effect that he Identified the automobile auto-mobile in which White was shot will bo Introduced Yesterday he picked out the machine in a garage from several that were there. lie declared declar-ed he was positive. Rollo was here October 4 on business. busi-ness. As an incident ho had an exhibit ex-hibit of fruit at tho state fair and won seven prizes Rollo Telle Story. On tho night In question Rollo loft the Eagles lodge room. Second South and West Temple streets, a little before be-fore 12 o'clock. He remembered that tho saloons were open, he said, because be-cause a vagrant asked him for money to get something to eaL He himself had takon ono highball He had the toothache and decided to walk it off. In substance, his story follows: I walked down (or south) along West Temple until I came to a bridge. I then turned to the left and walked about three blocks (to-Thlrd (to-Thlrd East). Jn that street I saw an automobile approaching slow- " ly. A tall man wearing a long, dark overcoat got aboard the machine ma-chine from the side while It was moving. 1 had turned to bit right (south) and the nutomobllo whs coming from that direction towards me. As the man got on the machine I heard two shots. My first impression was that it was a holdup. Saw Two Persons. I hecanse frightened, crossed tho street and hid in a small alley. al-ley. Two persons loft the automobile. auto-mobile. One was tho tall man. The other was a person of medium med-ium build I do not know whether wheth-er the other was a man or a woman. Both wore long overcoats. over-coats. It was not a rerr clear night. Rain had been falling all the afternoon and it was just beginning be-ginning to clear up. Before these two left tho machine tho lights on tho automobilo wont out. They walked towards a house and I followed, passing tho machine, and saw a man loaning over in the front seat. I thought he was drunk. The two persons who left, it seemed to mo, entered a house. I did not consider tho incident serious. I walked on until un-til I mot a man who appeared to ho a atreet car conductor and inquired in-quired -for directions to the Sem-loh Sem-loh hotel! I had a room across from tho hotel at tho Brltton rooming house. I got there about 1-30 In the morning and was In bed at 2 o'clock. Main Story Unshaken. Rollo was cross-examined closely, becoming somewhat confused as to streets and places, but remained unshaken un-shaken In his story of what happened. He was asked: "How old are jou?" "Fifty 'two." "How far wero you from tho automobile?" auto-mobile?" "Seventy-fivo or a hundred yards." "Wero you over drunk?" "Never drunk in my life." "Did you toll anybody about the shooting the night it occurred?" "Yes, to the woman where I roomed room-ed when I returned. I did not think much of it I mentioned it to her in a joshing way." "Did vou toll anybody else aftor that?" "Yes. a deputy sheriff of Provo, Utah countv, I met him later and told him"' " , The witness insisted that he had had only one highball, and all the matter with him waB thai he suffered from toothache. Ho drank the highball high-ball at the Eagles' club. oo |