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Show HECALLS THE ROBBERY OF PETER L1S0I ON SEPT. 21 The preliminary hearing of George Read and Frank Davis, charged with grand larceny, was held today before Municipal Judge George S. Barker. In the complaint, the defendants were held to have been parties to the robbery rob-bery of Peter Larson on the afternoon after-noon of September 21. R. E. Hayes, who was named a co-defendant with Read and Davis, in the original complaint, com-plaint, was exonerated of the charge last Saturday. The defendants were represented by Attorney Soren X. Christensen of Salt Lake City and the prosecution was conducted by County Attorney Joseph E. Evans. Testimony on behalf be-half of the state was tfven by Peter Larson, H. J. Marshall, W. R. Kirchoff and Patrolman C. P, Fitzgerald. Larson's Lar-son's story" was to the effect that he came to Ogden from Wyoming on an afternoon train, September 21. He had about $40 on his person, distributed dis-tributed In different pockets, when he reached the city. Shortly after his arrival, he went Into the Reception Bar and had a drink of beer. That was all he remembered until he woke up in the city jail, late that night. Cross-examination by Attorney Attor-ney Christensen brought out that the witness had previously Deen me victim vic-tim of several robberies such as he was alleged to have experienced in Ogden on the Twenty-first of September Septem-ber and for that reason he had counted count-ed his money and placed in different pockets soon after he reached the city. Marshall testified that he saw Larson Lar-son take a drink of beer with Hayes, Read and Davis and a minute or two afterward, saw him collapse and fall to the floor. Hayes and Davis, the witness stated, dragged the older man out of the saloon and laid him on a platform near the rear door and at that time he noticed one of Larson's pockets turned Inside out He did not, however, see an actual robbery perpetrated. W. R. Kirchoff told of seeing the four men in the saloon and of being apprised of Larson's apparent serious seri-ous condition by Marshall. He then called the police into the case. Patrolman Fitzgerald testified of the arrest of Read and Davis and, later, of Hayes and of the almost certain cer-tain evidence that Larson had been "doped." No testimony was introduced by the defense and following arguments by the attorneys, a verdict was rendered against the state. Vagrancy charges against Read and Davis are still pending. |