The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1948, Page 8

b PAGE EIGHT JURY MIGHT CASE TODAY George Harrison Meeks on Stand During All of Morning Session (Continued 1rom Page One) case 1inished today There were possibilities that . jury might receive the case late today YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Meeks spent the entire afternoon sessicn on the witness stand giv- ing testimony in his own behalf. He told Defense Attorney Monagle that he had let an unidentitied soldier and Amy Ebona use his room at the Keystone for about an hour on Sunday evening, De- cember 9, 1945. * He said that he went across the street for a cup of coffee and remained until he saw them leave The accused man said that he gave the soldier $10 for a watch This watch, declared the defendant, he later sold to Nathan Skinner in payment of a $20 debt. He iden- tified the watch as being the sam watch which had been previo declared to have been owned by the slain Camphell Worried By Police Meeks declared that he did not visit Kelso B. Hartness and Lena Brown at the Salo Rocms on the night of Dec. 9, but did so on the following evening about 9 o'clock. He said that after the Police had taken down the serial numbers of his $100 bills on Monday evening, he had become worried and went locking ior an attorney to place his money in a bank. He said that the attorney was out and that he then went to visit Hartness. He said he remained there about 15 minutes and then located Paul He said he was wearing a brown leather jacket, brown trousers and a dark brcwn shirt on Mond: Meeks reported that Chief of Po- lice John Monagle, Assistant Chief Hubert Gilligan and Territorial HRighw Patrolman Emmett Botel- ho lcoked around his room when they checked his money No Bleady Shirt Meeks denied borrowing a shirt frcom Hartness and also said that it was not true that he had removed shirt and undershirt in He said he had loan- y to Hartness on several including paying the lat- ter's room rent twi He claimed that he also gave money to Hart- ness once to buy Lena Brown some new clothes after Hartness had cut others up. He said he couldn't have counted $1,960 in. money before Hartness because he only had $1.500. Continuing the direct examina- tion, Meeks stated that he might have told Eddie (Schwaesdall) that he didn't have any money because he didn't want anyone to know that he did have some. He said he tcld John Ritter to write Ed- die and tell him that he (Meeks) would pay Eddie when he got work because he didn't want John to know he had money. Many Questionings He claimed that he was question- ed innumerably by former FBI Special Agent William Didelius at home, in the FBI office and on the street. He said that this includ- ed a night he was kept in the City Jail for investigation. He testified that he gave his blood- test and fingerprints to authorities voluntarily without being placed under arrest. Meeks denied telling Hartness to write a letter to Dora Kuich. He admitted giving her $50 but said he would not give the money to Hartness to deliver to her. He said also that he never told or asked Hartness to write any letter to Eddie, Gulkana Fight He admitted having a fight with Blackie Byrne at Gulkana which lasted an hour. Judge Folta ruled that he could not give the reason for the fight as it was immaterial. Meeks testified that considerable blood was spilled in the fight, and that he was wearing the gray suit which has since been made an exhibit in the trial. He said that he also wore the pants to this suit on the one day he worked lllllIIIIIIIIHIIfillllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIII * 0 DINNER for the Alaska Electric Li Power Co, Juneau. Always Washed Pants claimed he I defendant al- way sonally washed the pants of uit had never sent th t He said I 1y ent them P ut his instructions wher he was taking care of his laur Concluding his direct examina- ion, Meeks said that the only tme he ever saw Campbell was at the morgue. Replying to Mon- agle, he declared that he never knew, killed or had anything to do with the dead man Cross Examination U. 8. Attorney more personally conducted the cross examination of the defendant which was not concluded at the end of yester- day's session. He spent the major part of the first hour minut questioning Meeks on his gambling activities at Anchorage, succeeding in getting little additional infor- mati to that already brought out. Most of the time, Gilmore in- terrcgated the prisoner in a quiet voice, but at times he roared and pointed at the man on the witness | stand in attempts to apparently trip up his testimony Meeks told Gilmore that he had his $1,600 before the body of Campbell was found, but did not give John Kalinowski any money u afterwards because, at that he said, everyone in town he had money and it was longer & secret. Gilmore Gives Lie After that, Gilmore shouted “You lied plenty of times t money, didn't you?" Meeks was momentarily shaken but re- plied “Let's get down to business, Are you trying me for murder or for having money?”’ From that point on, the defen- dant said that several witne were liars. He said that Kali- nowski had lied when he said that Meeks had loaned $3 to Camp- bell 1 no At this point, nrough ques.on- ing by Gilmore, Meeks admitted he had lied to Didelius when he gave a statement to the FBL 1e also admitted lying to Skinner Ritter and others. FBI Agent Is Liar He said that Virginia Brown had lied if she claimed that Camp- bell had been in his (Meeks) room “He was never there,” declared the accused mar He also denied that Virginia Brown could have seen Camplell and himself walking up the street He said that he did not have any conversation with Kalinowski in which he told the latter to leav town so that he couldn't give evi- dence. He said that Didelius, who said he overheard the conversation, is “nothing but a liar.” The afternoon session was begun at 1:30 p. m. in an effort by Judge Folta to speed up the trial pro- - FROM ARIZONA Milton Wetherill of Phoenix, Ariz, is registered at the Hotel Juneau B SITKA VISITORS Frank W. Kuehn of Sitka is stay- ing at the Hotel Juneau. - There's rews n the Want-Ad | Shores’ O JOINT INSTALLATION PIONEERS and AUXILIARY FRIDAY at § P. M. 0dd Fellows’ Hall LUCK | full peacetime year for which fig- about | | ritory, Canada, they are, on the whole, an accurate index of the total volume of traffic over this | ings. | the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPTRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA DURING 1947 OVER mid-winter con- to a national col- | The group, in turn the ver Shrd 5 i | ) 4 urn them ove Christians is the most violent Chi- | I p vention, adopted a resolution Pro- ection group, probably the Ameri-| o pac oier Known . Tnr o ALASKA HIGHWAY Ot iy s o, e | e o | eame: AEpotac MO ¢ Solleoslon |, of T excesses of the Boxed Rebellion at e ! o drugs and medicines needed over- g, (oS at| i B R the turn of the century Over 3,700 Vehicles Also ot Jan. 38—M—A| 1/ . ooroved nationally, the pian| Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Davis and E i dAI k D . g m“";‘ ”‘I‘" PO T0l- b ek SR Ay paby of Yakutat are registered at, CAIRO--The leader of the young niere aska vuring UFOP€ | " The general public would con- | the Baranof Hotel Faypt Party, Ahmed Hussein, de- e ———————————————————————— e - e e e ey Six-Month Period |jam————e— Travelers entering Alaska over the Alaska Highway during the calender year 1947 numbered 9,246, according to figures compiled by the Alaska District Office, U. S. Department of Comnmerce, Juneau, from records of the U. S. Cus- toms Service Figures are available only on northbound traffic entering Al- aska from Canada at the Customs stations at Tok Junction and Hain Although these figures d a small amount of local traf- between Alaska and adjacent British Columbia and Yukon Te! famous war-built route in the first ures are available. A total of 8240 persons in 3,290 vehicles, including busses, en- tered central Alaska at Tok Junc- JUNEAU DELIVERIES: THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948 clared today that Arab forces will ght and '’ "y was planned last night by the | tribute by donating 25 cents or| PEIPING — Priests of the Bel- , 7 | New Jersey Pharmaceutical Associa-| me # in collection boxes set Up iN ' gian Catholic Scheut Mission have Shortly strike a decisive blow ] tion puarmactes, WHoleetel drug, houses | o1 aefiotiln) Bkes. ikt the. Ohie | JEWE 1 Felestine, Hupssin sal would supply the drugs at cost and | yee Communist persecution of /D¢ Would go to the Egyptian P tine Border very soon to choose a spot for opening what he called the Southern Front. -+ NANKING —A Chinese spokesman says N ) The Haines Highway, a ich road leading from the 10 AM, 2 and 4 P. M. ai Alaska Highway i Yuk ATal . a TERY 10 Fomaivet sy 5 LU Al K DOUGLAS DELIVERY 16 AM. Alaska, accounted for 1,006 per- R s Tt SRR R M iR S S o S SN S S 50 in 497 vehicles, including ) busses, in the six-months period N . % Y 4 : ) 7 USRS e Baled Goeods for Your Health| Monthty Average {Banana Cream Pies . . Pineapple Pies . . Rhubarb Pies . . Cherry} L S A {Tarts . . Banana Cakes . . Donuis . . Pastry . ranged from a high of 738 vehicles with 1,982 passengers in July to a low of 60 vehicles with 133 passeng- ers in December. The monthly av- erage over the year amounted to 315 vehicles and 770 passengers. 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