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Show FOUGHT' OFF HfwILiL X H E The trial of Frank Roll and Dell ' Rio for robbery was resumed betorc Judge Howell thiR morning, the trial having been ou all cay yesterday. Au Interesting piece or testimony, given in liehdit of the stat. was that of Cecil Harvey, an electrician. Har-' Har-' vey stated thai, on the night .f July 23. 11H0. the night tho robbery is iJleged to have been committed, he net the defendant. Frank Dell, on Grant avenue, between T went) -second a. id Twenty-third streets, neur the Grant school house. Dell held a revolver re-volver In tho face of the witness and told him to biow up hisJianoN. Har-ey Har-ey said he did not luok upon the situation sit-uation In that way and immediately grappled with the desperado, finally si.creeding In iaklnj the gun away from him and running hlin off the ave-j ave-j nue. He -aid he tried bard to get the gnu to work on Dell, but it refused to explode. An invesiigalion dl.s-j dl.s-j closed the fact that the revolver was i not leaded. The offioerj permitted I Harvey to keep the revolver as a re-' re-' minder of his encounter v.ith a man i bent upon robbery. ; Miss Edith Williams, of the under-: under-: world, testified thrt the defendants j were at her place on the night of the I alleged robbery until about 9:30 ! o'clock, going from her place toward the noodle house on Oranl avenue, between be-tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth streets. She said she told them to go home when the curfew whistle idew The robbery is stated to have been committed nt aoout H! oclock. Doth of the defendants testified In their owu behalf, each telling where tnev were on the night of the allege! holdup, and both denying that they v.ere at th eplacc where Mr Iofgren claims to have been robbed. Tho men ctated that they are half breed Cher- okee Indians of Oklahoma, but that lacy are not related by l.lood. They called each other brother because they came from the same country and be-1 be-1 louged to the same race of people. Dell Rio was sullen a6 he testllled j and men; many conflicting state- r.n nts, but Frank Delf showed convid-Irrable convid-Irrable Intelligence and appeared perfectly per-fectly willing to tell the story of the night In question. Dell stated that he is a married man, his wife living in Doise. and his tlx-year-old child at the Carlisle school, Pennsylvania. He said he was not a; the corner of Twenty-fourth street sud . Washington uvenuv, where Mr. LofRicn claimed he was -obbed, July ; 2J, and (bat bo did not have an encounter en-counter with Harvey ou Grant ave- I nue. i ' |