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DONALD DEE COLLIERSanity Hearing Begins In Robbery Case HereBy DON WILLIAMSAviilanche Journai StaffI during the several days1 wait for; |the funeral the youngsterDonald Dee Collier’s mother would go to the funeral home drew half-concealed tears from anc* ‘Daddy Jim .him Tuesday afternoon as she Collier, sitting at the counsel testified to the grief he showed table behind his attorney, Johnover the death of his grandfather, “the only father Donnie had ever known.”The moment came during aO’Shea, rubbed his eyes and sniffled. He sat with his left hand over his eyes, half hiding them; a few moments later, ahearing in 72nd District Court to tear dripped from the end of his determine whether Collier, 26, is nose.sane. If the jury finds that he is, his trial on a charge of robbing the United Supermarket, 203 N. University Ave., can proceed. If the jury finds him insane, he will be sent to the Rusk State Hospital.Mrs. E. F. Bridges of 4605 38th St., who was divorced from L. P. Collier in 1948, said her son once asked her:Why Don’t I Have A Daddy?“Why don’t; I have a daddy like other kids? Why doesn’t some man care something aboutme?”She said her father died when Donald was an adolescent, andSister CommittedBridges said Donald’s sister was committed to the Big Spring State Hospital for a mental condition in 1963 or 1964,shortly after Donald returned from the state penitentiary, where he had served a sentence for forgery,O'Shea asked her what her] son’s reaction was when the girl: went to Big Spring.“First he said he was going 1o| get a gun and shoot us alij three,” Mrs. Bridges said, “and get us all out of our misery,”She testified that during a See ROBBERY Page 12
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 13, 1968
Page 49
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