Weekly journal-miner., 1919-10-29
BIRD ACQUITTED OF ANGELINA'S
 ACCUSATION
(From Fridays Daily.)f


 After short deiberatioas a jury in Superior court last night acquitted Floyd Bird, colored, charged jointly with "Blackie" Pearson withf the robbery of Angelina Thompson, Humboldt restaurant keeper, of a diamond valued at $500, and about S3G in currency.
 In the trial oi Floyd Bird, accused of participating in the robbing of Angelina Thompson, a so called French mulatto, of diamond setting from a finger ring, and $50 in cur rency, the principal testimony of tn: woman was that she did not remem- Der. Even the driving of her car off q culvert at a speed which threw some of the occupants completely out of the car, failed to impESss it. self on her memory. She eve1 Killed to remember who were riding &l the back seat, and when she relinqnshed the steering wheel, she could not tell who sat on the back seat with her.
 She accused no one directly of talk ing her property, but in the absence of the diamond from its platinum setting, she did not considezh her birthdav celebration an emf Erc- cess, and she felt that some of the trio with her was moret ess responsible.
 On rhe other hand, whegi Mrs Mary Tobin, colored, was wn out of the car near the ice e 5use. Angelina. choosing a pole to the car after she ducked the culI en- tirely, that lady decided after ecov- ering consciousness that thd pace was too hot for her, and a sing taxicab driver stopped and b Sught her to the city.
 Sergeant Mitchell P. Manor tes- tifed that he had passed the car and seen Angelina Thompson's head hanging over the side of the car and man bending above her, and al though he testified he believed a woman was being robbed, the man with the sergeants stripes offered no explanation for not stopping and going to the woman's aid. A taxi driver showed more nerve for a mo- ment later he stopped, asked the trouble and brought Mrs. Tobin, who had been injured, to the city.
 Sergeant Frank Davis testified that he brought the mulatto, Miss Thompson, 10 the city about 4:30 a. nl-. taking her to the American res taurant, where the night city police took her in charge.
 Deputy Sheriff Thompson told the details of the arrests, and his inves- tigation of the various places and exhibits involved in the case. He made an ideal witness, giving bare facts without showing personal bias, or i'll any way trying to coloring his testimony to favor either the state or the defendant
 Taking the stand, the defendant, Floyd Bird, told a we'll connected story of the night as he remembered l it. His statements presented no ma terial difference to any of the other accounts of the joy ride except he could not recollect seeing the mulat- to'S car standing near the gate and | the service truck in which he was being brought to town stopped by | a waved electric torch and the owner thereof getting aboard in the rear the defendant being on the front seat rather under the influence of liquor
 Bert Wiberg. driver of the service car, noted this part of the evenings galaxy of wild and curious happen ings, but could not say whether the party getting aboard was the mys- terious "Whitey" But he did know that Fort Whipple car was ranged alongside of Angelina Thompson's Buick, and that the duslly speed | --------'--.-------------