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Show ALLI CASE IN ! iimwu ui juiii I Jury in the ease of Abdul Alii, charged with the robbery of J. L. Jordan Jor-dan lure September C, last, waa still I In deliberation at 2 o clock this after-I after-I noon in tho district court. The cane was completed shortly after 11 I o'clock. I Alii 1" charged with having been one of four men who took the automobile auto-mobile belonging to Jordan after holding hold-ing him at tho point of a gun and rohblntf him of $38. Arguments by District Attorney Joseph E. Evans, directing the prosecution, prose-cution, and Attorney George Ha hereon, her-eon, defending Alll, were heard this morning, all witnesses having com- I pletod their testimony ynsterdu afternoon. af-ternoon. I Tho only witness used by tho state : wux Mr. Jordan, who was tho alleged I victim of Alll. Toy Smith. "Short ' lorgnn and Jack Riley. The witness 'described how Morgan and Smith held him up as ho was driving his car into his garage. The nu-n compelled Jordan to get Into thu cor with the.m and drive away. At Thirty-first strvet and Washington avenue, Jordan said, Alll and Riley got Into tht automobile , with hirn ln the back seat with tilth, 1 hu said, wero Alll and Smith, both Of whom are said to have put guns against his side and held him up whil Alll searched him and took $38. Tho lundits then compelled Jordan to lenve, the automobile. Jordan said tho automobile was found a few miles south of the city limits. The witness was positive ln iiLs Identification of aih us oni ol the robbers In thn automobrlc with him Alll denied that he was In Ogden on the night of tho robbery In question, ques-tion, alleging that ho was ln SaJt Lake with Alby Emln. Certain phasee of the Alll case, in Connection with a stolen ear case now pending in the United States court, probably will follow. Alll also 1 facing fac-ing a charge in tho federal court In connection with th allcd theft of an automobile from Pocatello. |