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Show CHIP,! ABLE TO IDENTIFY MEN 10 ' ROBBED H This morning, in Judge James A. Howell's division of tho district court was taken up for trial the case ot the State of Utah against Jack Smith on tho charge of robbery. Attorney George Halverson was entered In the case as associate counsel with District Dis-trict Attorney John C, Davis for the Etate, and R. L. Gideon appeared for tho defendant. The folowlng jury was empaneled last evening: Walter Blake, Raymond Fair, William Wil-liam Royle, Edwin F. Jones, Charles B. Elsenberg, W. F. Heyman, Henry B. Ekins and George W. James. Ira Chase was charged with the offense of-fense in connection with Smith but on motion of the attorney for the defendants de-fendants separato trials were decided upon; tho Smith trial being called first. Tho charge against the young men is that they held up and robbed a Chinaman on Twelfth street, February Febru-ary 1, ot about 510, after they had Intimidated In-timidated him with a revolver and bound him to a ladder with rope. Tho first witness this morning was Detective Robert Burk who related to the jury that tho dofendant con-ressed con-ressed the robbory and gave dotalls of the affair that were in harmony with tho Btory told by tho Chinaman. He said that Smith told him that Chase was drawn into tho affair and was really not to blame. Mr. Burk also stated that Smith told him of going to Grand Junction after tho robbery and of having thrown away the gun, he used at a point near Prices Ernest Hogan, a neighboring boy,' told of seeing the two men come from the direction of tho Chinaman's place, stating that he followed them along the railroad track as far as Twentieth Twen-tieth street. He said, however, that ho was not close enough to identify them. He could only say that one man was a head taller than the other, oth-er, which corresponds with the respective re-spective heights of Smith and Chase. Thomas Powell saw the two men as they came from tho Chinaman's shack and described them as resembling resem-bling Smith and Chase. He would not bo absolutely positive as to the identification iden-tification but said ho believed they were tho two defendants. Ah Chong, the Chinaman who was robbed, told tho jury, through an Interpreter, In-terpreter, of the robbery. He said that the two men came to his place on tho morning of February 1 and said they wanted to buy somo vegetable- and that, when ha arose from sorting them out, Smith held a revolver revolv-er In his face and told him to hold up his hands. He compiled and no sooner soon-er -were his hands in the air than Smith, turning tho revolver over to Chase, took possession of a piece of rope nearby and tied him to a chair which was near a small ladder. A few dollars were taken from his pockets and about $10 abstracted from a trunk. The witness said that Smith ransacked his shack for more money but found none. Chong identifying both Smith and Chase as tho men who robbed him. He was very positive posi-tive In all his testimony. oo- |