sixty-five pounds or it could have been more because he had a jacket or something or other on.  You know, you could be a little lighter than you really are when you gave got a lot of clothes on.

Eagan asked J.D. Nolan if he had seen "the boy with the long hair that works there in his teens or early twenties"—a description of the restaurant employee John Grimes, who had testified for the defense the week before. Nolan said no.1

J.D. NOLAN:...I don't know who was working or what because I didn't pay that much attention.  I just told the guy that was wanting to use the phone—

Q (EAGAN): Is that all you heard him ask?

A: Sir? Q: Is that all you heard him ask?

A: He said, "I want to use the phone."  I said, "You can't.  This place is closed." I said, "I'm sure they got one."  He said, "I need to use the phone to call the sheriff," and that's all I paid attention to.

Q: And since that time have you been shown any photographs of black men?

A: I beg your pardon?

Q: Since that time has anyone come out to you and talked to you and shown you photographs?

A: No, sir, no one at all.  This is the first time I have even talked to anybody like this about this.

Eagan's last question seemed to imply that J.D. Nolan was mistaken in his description of Edward Williams.  But on the whole, his testimony was intact.  His wife's testimony, virtually identical, was unchallenged.

Hadley now put on Stoney Holon, a service station mechanic who had worked on Edward Williams's pickup truck about a week or ten days before Christmas Eve.  Holon said that the truck had a bad battery and cracked carburetor float ball, which he had not fixed before Christmas Eve.

Q (HADLEY): Describe what circumstances would cause him to have difficulty.

A (HOLON): His most difficulty would become—I mean, would happen like after it's ran awhile, you know, and then shut down and it was a constant fuel leakage into the ball which caused it to hardly—you know, be kind of hard to start....If it didn't fire up the first time he was sunk.  I mean, it would just flood over.

Q: This was compounded with the battery, too, wasn't it?

A: The battery would be dead by this time.

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1   J.D. Nolan never entered the restaurant.