The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-26
M'CHEE DEATH
 IS JUSTIFIED BY
 CORONER JURY
Graham Gets 30 Days and $200 for Driving Auto
 While Drunk
RALSTON TO BE BACK
 AT WORK THIS WEEK
Gladys Lamb, from Whom Robber Obtained Liquor,
 Is Fined $20O

"The death of William A. Mo- Ghee early Monday morning re- suited from a gunshot wound in- flicted Saturday forenoon by Guy McNaughton, while said McGhee was fleeing after having forcibly rcsbed the B. M. Behrends Bank, and said killing was justified"
 Such was the verdict late yester- day afternoon of the jury that was summoned by United States Cbm- missioner Charles Sey, acting as coroner, to inquire into the demise Of McGhee, who was fatally shot in front of B. M. Behrends Bank after he had taken 5000 from the institution.
 Nc Evidence Of Accomplice
 There was no evidence at the inquest to establish that McGhee had an accompEce. Clifford J. tShorty) Graham, who had been held in jail as witness for the inquest and who had been in an automobile with McGhee shortly before the robbery, admitted that on the day of the tragedy he had driven a motor car while he was drunk, and this morning he was sentenced to 30 days in the Fed eral jail and fined $200.
 Will Continue Investigation
 The Marshals office will con- tinue it's investigation of Graham s activities Saturday morning. de- elared De putty Marshal Thomas Newcombe.
 Mrs. Gladys Lamb at whose home Graham testified he and McGhee had obtained liquor an hour or so before the robbery and who was with Graham when the car he was Glacier Highway Saturday evening, Fleaded guilty in the Commission CTS Court this morning to possess sion of liquor and was fined $200. In default of payment of the pen ally, she was taken to the Federal jail where she must serve 100 days in the event no part of the fine should be paid, inasmuch as g re- mission is allowed TOT every days confinement.
 RalstGn Is Doing Fine
 Daniel Ralston, wiro grappled with McGhee. while the latter was en- gagged in his pistol duel with MT. McNaughton and who accidentally was shot twice, once in the neck and cnce in the right leg, is rap- : fly recovering from his wounds at his home
 MT. Ralston will be able to leave his home and to look after his business by the end of the week. " his physician, Dr. H. c. DeVighne, said this forenoon.
 Funeral arrangements for Mo Ghee are held in abeyance to learn if his mother, Mrs. H. Vance of Seattle, has any directions to give concerning the obsequies. She has been advised of his death by the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
 Developments At Inquest
 At the inquest the principal de- velopments were that all three shots fired by MT. McNaughton took effect, one in the stomach of McGhee and the other two in Ral- stems neck and leg; that McGhee probably fired only one shot, which struck the cement wall of the bank; that Harold Gallwas, a teller in the bank, was the person that tcok from the overcoat pocket of McGhee as he lay wounded on the sidewalk the stolen 5000 in currency and returned it to the bank, and that Graham was in McGhee's company until a few minutes before the robbery
 Witnesses At Inquest
 The witnesses at the inquest were Mrs. Etta Bringdale, clerk in the bank; MT. McNaughton, Dr. H. c. DeVighne. who performed the surgical operation for the ex- traction of the bullets from Me- Ghee and Ralston; Thomas Cole, son of Cash Cole who, while work ing in the Capitol Electric Com pany owned by his father, Cash Cole, sold Saturday morning be- fore the robbery charged battery to McGhee for an automobile; ; Deputy Marshals T. T. Thurman and James Yorke, guards over McGhee while he lay on his death bed in the hospital, and Graham.
 Marshal Albert White, Deputy Marshal Donald E. Martin and Chief of Police George Getchell made informal statements to the jury.
 Mrs. Bringdale testified to hav-
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