Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-02-11
SECOND TRIAL Of
G|LL|ES GOING ON
DEPOSED CLAIM AGENT, CON.
V1CTED OF FORGERY, FACING
GRAND LARCENY CHARGE.

GRAND LARCENY CHARGE.
After two days and a half spent in
obtaining jury-a longer time than
at the first trial-the taking of tes.
timony in the second trial of J. F.
Gillies, deposed claim agent of the
industrial insurance department, this
time on a charge of grand larceny in
connection with the alleged bogus
claim Of one Don L. Jones" amount-
ing to $1,064.6O, began late Wednes-
day afternoon with the placing on
the witness stand of Percy Gilbert.
secretary Of the commission, as the
states first witness. Superior Judge
d. F. Wright is hearing the case.
Gilbert's examination and cross
examination were completed shortly
before noon Thursday and was de-
voted entirely to explanation of office
details. Chairman Floyd L. Daggett
OF the commission followed him as a
witness, testifying as to departmental
routine and also as to particular
claims. The states case, which is
being conducted by Assistant Attor-
ney General John M. Wilson and
Prosecuting Attorney Geo. F. Yantis.
probably will not be completed before
the middle of next week.
In delivering his opening state
ment to the jury Wednesday after
noon, Wilson made the first public
allegation that the three saloon
keepers who cashed the fraudulent
industrial insurance warrants re-
ceived q share of the loot, when he
said that the state will prove the
saloonkeepers received half of the 10
per cent rake-off Frank Stone testi-
fed In the previous trial he was to
get on each warrant he cashed, that
they received. in other words, s per
cent Of the face Of the warrants.
Members Of Jury.
The defense did not make an OPEN
ing statement to the jury, reserving
it until later. The Jury which 10
hearing the case is composed Of six
men and six women: Mrs. C. A.
Wiley, Mrs. R. A. Cook, Mrs. John
Carlson, H. A. Roberts, J. H. Saun-
ders. A. F. Manke. e. C. Meyers, Mrs.
William Teets, Charles Sorenson, Mrs.
0. B. Fall. F. A. Lange and Mrs.
William Martin.
Gillies was convicted of the first
charge placed against him, first de-
gree forgery, by a verdict given last
Friday, the decision being reached on
the third ballot and after the jurors
had reviewed the evidence and in
spected the numerous exhibits in the
case. The case went to the jury
about O'Clock Thursday night and
when the jury retired about IL
o'clock that night without agreeing,
various bets were made that dis
agreement would be reported. The
first ballot taken Friday morning,
however after the evidence had been
gone over, was unanimous for con-
viction.
Gillies did not seem particularly
perturbed when the verdict was an
nounced and. through his counsel.
Attorney Thos. M. Vance, Immediate
ly filed a motion for new trial. If
this is denied, Gillies says he will ap-
peal to the state supreme court.
In support of the motion for new
trial, Attorney Vance presented an
affidavit to the court Wednesday,
made by one Mary Evans. alleging
that Mrs. M. H. Ranney, one Of the
jurors in the first trial, was disqual-
ified because she remarked prior to
the trial that "Jack Gillies was
guilty" Later that afternoon the
state presented an affidavit from Mrs.
Ranney herself, in which she denied
having made such a statement and
stated that at the time she was sup
posed to have made it she was serv-
ing as a juror in another case.
Three More Trials.
After the present trial, in which
an attempt is being made to convict
Gillies of obtaining money on the
fraudulent warrants issued on the
bogus claims he was convicted OF
passing through his department. he
will be tried on another grand lar
ceny charge. Then Gene Kearns, for
mer proprietor of local saloon, is
to be tried for grand larceny, some
of the bogus warrants having been
cashed in his saloon. while Art
Young, a Tacoma saloonkeeper who
cashed some of the warrants, is to be