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•. * *• ■ tilOther witnesses w o v e hoardj Tuesday afternoon.j Mrs. E. F. Bridges of 4605 38th iSt., who was divorced from L 11), Collier in 1018, said her son;;once asked her: | 1| “Why don’t I have n daddyi(like other kids? Why doesn’t!| some man care something alout|thShe said her father died when5!-me?”laDonald was an adolescent, and during the several days’ wait for ithe funeral tfie v o u n g s t p r C, i “would go to the funeral homejm land just sit with 'Daddy JimV'itc | Collier, sitting at the counsel 1L;j table behind his attorney, John! i O’Shea, rubbed his eyes and sniffled. Ife sat with his left!C|wtiti-thi:hand over his eyes, half hiding jthem; a few moments later, a hear dripped from the end of hisj nose.j Sister C ommitted4Mrs. Bridges said Donald’s, sister was committed to the Big Spring State Hospital for a mental condition in 1963 or 1964, -ho/ly after Donald returned from the state penitentiary, where he had served a sentence for forgery.O’Shea asked her what herj^ ’'son’s reaction was when the gulp, | wont to Big Spring.'• “First he said he was going to hgct a gun and shoot us all /.three,” Mrs. Bridges said, “andget us all out of our miservT• *She testified that during a(Clt;i.marriage between the one toCollier's father and her presentmarriage, Donald learned ofsome attentions an older manj was paying to his sister. Shod said her son got a hot knife and!! branded his sister below the|breast «o that he couId tell “ifhhat was his sister.”j In reply to O'Shea’s questions, rJMrs. Bridges said her son had! ^I been unwiliin to talk to her injy the last several months whenjn she visited him at the Dubbock;^ (County jail. She said he would| not even give her tie* names of; ■?o* sdilc witnesses fur the sanity;In tri •!. f ut would only say, “My; he'd hurts, oh, mama, my headjO! n►) '-'is. Bridges said she andj Cotljor’s wife visited him three|^ o- f-juv months ago and saw him,lt;1 ash his arm. Blood spurted.! fishe said, and, “he just stood; there and looked at it.” She said:LS die co d ! not see what he cut; y; himself with. 1No Keeognltlon jj O'Shea asked if her son hadtej shown any sign of recognizing „pher in the courtroom. She said d he had not. I3fj “Does lie seem unconcerned?ri about the proceedings?” O’Shea s.; asked.s.’ Assistant Dist. Atty.3d
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 13, 1968
Page 74
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