The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-23

by himself and walked to MT. Met calf's automobile. l rode with him
 to the hospital. hope he gets we'll quickly"
 MT. Eberhart who went with the robber to the hospital talked to him while the automobile was mak- ing the trip.
 "'Just bury me in any old grave the wounded man told me-" mar rated Mir Eberhart. CT took a chance and missed; that's an, he said. He refused to give me any
 details about himself"
 Telephone for Officers
 Immediately after the robbery and shooting, employees of the
 bank telephoned to the United
 States Marshal's office and to Po- lice Headquarters
 Deputy United States Marshal Donald E. Martin headed group of deputies that hastened to the bank. Chief of Police George Get chell and Police Patrolman George Griggs arrived at the same time.
 The officers questioned eye wit
 nesses of the robbery and shooting
 and took as evidence the three pis- tols, MT. McNaughton's .38 calibre
 Smith and Wesson and the robbers .32 caliber Lueger and .38 caliber
 Colt. The officers then went to
 the hospital. They talked briefly
 with Ralston, but were unable to
 question the robber who was inn
 mediately taken to the operating
 room.
 Regrets Escape of Banker
 Before he went into the operat- ing room, however, he recognized the officers, and said:
 "Too bad, didn't get that bank
 CT; that's all I'm sorry for. I'd like to riddle you fellows, too"
 The officers identified the robber
 as William A. McGhee. He came
 to Juneau from Ketchikan last
 summer. In this city last June 6, he was fined $60 for violation of
 the Alaska Bone Dry Law. His
 Washington State police record
 shows that in 1929 he was fined
 $50 in Seattle; that he served 8
 jail term in Port Angeles for vio-
 lation of the National Prohibition l: Act and that he served sentence : of 90 days at Port Townsend for l: smuggling Chinese into the United States.
 Behind in Room Rent For several months, he has been rooming at the Archway Apart ments, conducted by MT. and Mrs. Stephen Stanworth on Front Street. A search of his room revealed but few personal effects. One of the pillow cases had holes cut into it as if he had intended to use part of it for a mask. He was delin- quent in his room rent. ,; Last evening, Mrs. Stanworth left note in his room notifying him he would have to vacate unless he paid his rent today. He had re- ceived the note, for it was not in his room this forenoon. 1 The robber had not engaged in much, if any employment since his arrival here. His suit was worn, but not very shabby. In the pockets of his clothes the officers found woman's wrist watch and card case containing two gold crowns for teeth. The watch was engraved "Edring, F. R. A. Omaha" The
 card case bears the initials, "G. A. F."
 G0dkins Knows McGhee :I Miles Godkins, who operates a taxicab business here, knew Mo- Ghee in Seattle IT years ago when they worked together in the Colon ial Garage there. McGhee was in- terested in the ownership of the Tenth Avenue Garage in Seattle nine years ago. He was married, but he and his wife were divorced about three years ago. She is be- Ilieved to be living in Seattle. ,: He has a brother, Alfred McGhee, residing in San Francisco. The officers are inclined to be- lieve that McGhee had an accom- plice in the bank robbery. The &C., complice is supposed to have stood watch outside the building and to have run away when the shooting began. A man, whose identity has not been established, was seen to run from the bank north on Sew ard Street to Fourth Street and then to have turned west on Fourth, where he was lost to view. McGhee is about 38 years old; five feet seven inches tall, and stockily built. His complexion is dark, his hair almost black. Officers and employees of the bank who were in the institution at the time of the robbery, besides Mir, McNaughton, MT. Cleveland land Mrs. Bringdale, were J. F : Mullen, who was in the Presidents room; Harold Gallwas and James McNaughton.