Simpson’s Bags Focus Of Questions Prosecutor Interrogates Airport Skycap On How Many Pieces Of Luggage Suspect Had

With pieces of O.J. Simpson’s luggage draped over the witness stand, a prosecutor quizzed a skycap Thursday about the number of bags Simpson checked and the location of an airport trash can, suggesting Simpson could have dumped evidence of murder before his late-night flight to Chicago.

James Williams said he didn’t see Simpson do anything at the trash can, although he was standing near it while checking his luggage little more than an hour after his ex-wife and her friend were slain.

Limousine driver Allan Park testified that one of the two duffle bags Simpson had brought with him was sitting on top of the trash can when he last saw it. Williams told jurors he saw Simpson with only one duffel bag as he checked two other bags for his prominent passenger.

Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark was not permitted to show jurors photos of the trash can after the defense objected, nor did she present any evidence to back her implication that Simpson could have discarded one or more bags while standing beside the skycap station.

Outside court at day’s end, defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. said he knew of no new evidence involving the trash can and called the implication “another example of prosecution desperation.”

Meanwhile, her co-counsel, Deputy District Attor ney Christopher Darden, raised the specter of new evidence about missing luggage.”We hope to present more evidence tomorrow relative to what happened to the bag in which the bloody clothes were carried in,” Darden said. Outside court, prosecutors said they would call as a witness Thursday Simpson friend and lawyer Robert Kardashian, who handled some of Simpson’s luggage when he returned to Los Angeles the morning after the murders.