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Show NEGRO TO ASK Ii FOR NEW TRIAL Robbery Sentence Deferred By Judge Kimball in District Court Toy Smith, negro, convicted in the' district court last week for robbery. 1 wax granted a -stay of execution thlsl nvornlng when he appeared for Hen-1! hence before Judge James N Kimball. ! The court will now sentence the negro Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. The stay was requested by Arthur, J 1 Woollej sho was appointed by thej 'court to represent Smith, and it is tin-,. dcrstood that the negro seeks to have la new trial granted' Smith was convicted of the robber of J. L. Jordan last summer whOQjj I three mn held him up, took $3S from i his pockets and then stole hla automobile auto-mobile and made their escape Abdul i , Mil an Albanian, was convicted of the J I same crime here recently and sent to,, the state orison. , Smith, it 13 said, has one of the longest records of any man who ho ' served in the state prison. In lf'dfi . he waa sent up from Still Lake on a I I robher charge .mil :n 1910 he again ' went to the penitentiary for assault 'with a deadly weapon While In the i i prison Smith :i:;aultel another prison- er and was Riven an additional term He .s now said to be on parole from I the Montana penitentiary District Attorney Joseph E. Kans. I who directed ihe prosecution of the , necrro, made no objection to the stay of i J execution this morning |