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IIN COURT HEARING\Robbery SuspectsSanity QuestionedFROM PAGE ONEIImarriage between the one to Colliers father and her present marriage, Donald learned of some attentions an older manwas paying to his sister. She said her son got a hot knife and branded his sister below the breast so that he could tell “if that was his sister/’In reply to O’Shea’s questions, Mrs. Bridges said her son had been unwilling to talk to her in the last several months when she visited him at the Lubbock County jail. She said he wouldnot even give her the names of possible witnesses for the sanity trial, but would only say, “My head hurts, oh, mama, my head hurts.”Mrs. Bridges said she and Collier’s wife visited him three or four months ago and saw him slash his arm. Blood spurted, she said, and “he just stood there and looked at it.” She said she could not see what he cut himself with.No Recognitionwas the day’s third witness. He said Collier was so averse to meeting the public that he “wouldn’t buy a belt; for himself.” He also told of Collier’s staring, and said his stepson complained sometimes of roarings in bis head.With both of those witnesses, Cherry brought out the fact that they are not trained t o distinguish normal from abnormal behavior.One Convicted One man has been convicted of the robbery with which Collier is also charged. A jury in the same court gave a 20-year sentence last March 21 to Cecilj Ray Rinehart, *M, of Odessa.Witness to the robbery said two men wearing ski masks held up the store. Police arrested two suspects before they could leave the market. A customer hadbeen slugged, and $2,100 wastaken from a safe,Attorneys said Tuesday the sanity hearing might tinue through Thursday.thatcon-An r\
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 13, 1968
Page 13
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