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Show MAN WHO SAW THE MURDER , OF WHITE Salt Lake. Ma 15. A. S Rollo. the state's star witness In the trial of Caleb A. Inlo charged with the ' murder of Thoma- Eddie' W hite, floundered in a slough of questions ! relating to direction and the points of t'ic compass during the trial yester- 1 dav afternoon and became so confused confus-ed that when he was asked to point south from where he stood, he pointed point-ed directly to the north. This was after Rollo had revealed his only pregnable point by stating I that he could never tell direction without a compass In his hand and ! had never possessed the sense of direction di-rection He hod admitted that even after he had lived for several ycar- i a few miles from Billings, Mont., and J bad been to that town many times, he could not tell 'he direction, though he could walk or drive there by day ! or by night. After floundering In this maze for , some time he was rescued by Judge Morris L. Ritchie, who permitted Rol- I lo to explain his situation In his own way and by one mirute of skilled questioning Judge Ritchie landed Rollo on solid ground again After that there was no faltering in his testimony. tes-timony. Witness Was Weary The incident occurred during yesterday yes-terday afternoon's session after Rollo had undergone many hours of search - I ing cross-examination. He was men- I tally and physically weary and had 1 become tangled and conlused in describing de-scribing directions. Judge Ritchie took up his examln- ' ation and instructed Rollo to point to the south the direction he was trav- I eling on the nicht White s car was approaching luni Rollo BtOOd up and after a moment's hesitation pointed directly to tbe north Judge Ritchie then took up the examination in earnest earn-est and within sixty secouds had Rol- ' lo straightened out. The defense had required Rollo to illustrate with the stenographer's table representing the automobile, the incidents he saw at the time White was murdered Rollo. after the court had taken him in hand, said that the automobile approached him from the i south, near the west end of Third East street. A man jumped from the west side of the street to the west, or left side of the automobile and fired. The figure was close to the automobile, so close when the sho' was fired that the man could have tuoched the car The bullet that pasred through White's neck was fired from the left side and the skin was powder mark- ed. thus bearing out all of the feature! fea-ture! of Rollo's story in so far as It related to the position and manner of the shooting Rollo said thut the second shot was fired an Instant later and the two ' figures ran down the sidewalk on the left or west side of the street toward 1 a house further to the south. Rollo followed them until be had passed the automobile and then lost sight of , them iu the darkness. Had Interesting Career. Rollo said, under cross-examine-I flon, that he was a graduate of the 1 University of Edinburgh Scotland, with the degree of bachelor of arts; I that he bad been a horticultural ex-' ex-' pert for the British government on the west cosst of Mnca for several vears; that be had taken part in a tribe war of the natives and was struck on the face with a war club and disfigured, thftt he had suffered yellow fever In Africa, had been held up b three robbers at Great Falls. Mont . all of whom were ,fterwardr-captured; ,fterwardr-captured; that he had been injured in a runSWIj or two. was Injured once on shipboard and had suffered his i share of accidents and misfortune. When he saw the shots he beliexed I r.t first that there had been a robbery, I but when he saw White crouched on his sejt he thought the man was ; drunk and that the shots had been fired by some one In fun. He lighted a cigar near i lie automobile, an I when he returned to the scene with the of-fleers of-fleers the following wek he tou'- , them to tbe spot where he had Mght- . e;l the clear and found the charred match tips. After w alking south for seven I block. he came to a main road running run-ning east and west, where he turned and met a laboring man with a dinner I pall. He explained that he had become be-come lost and a6ked for directions back to the clt The laboring man. whose identity has never been lean- ed bj the officials, showed him hl-rood hl-rood H walked to State street and 1 then to his room. |