The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
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lars, "all his money" from Meeks clothing. The $8, Meeks said, he later got back from Vincent. This first alleged theft occurred during Sunday morning.
 Returning to the evenings hap penings, the witness recounted that after the police arrived, they, Vim icent and Meeks first went into Vincent,s room. Later Gilligan and l Meeks went to the defendants room from where Gilligan returned to her sometime later to report that the money had been found Short | ly later, the police left.
 $l700 Taken
 Gilligan, in his testimony today
 corroborated the landlady's ac-
 count, except that, he said, Meeks i first stated to him that $500 had been taken. later changing the
 amount to $l700 before the money was found in Meeks' own room. 'Gilligan put the time when he and 1 Patrolman Dore received the call to the Keystone Rooms at $40 o'clock Sunday evening.
 Gilligan, in his testimony, in- terjected that, while he and Dore
 were first searching Vincent's room, Meeks remarked of Vincent: q should have cut his damn throat this morning" Meeks suggested to Vincent that the latter could keep $200, if he would return the other $1 800. Meeks at that time remark ed that he had worked. hard for
 that money.
 Red Spots On Shirt AS Meeks and Gilligan were go- ! ing to search in the formers room, Meeks stated that the money had
 been in the pocket of a white shirt. In the room, he pointed out the
 shirt hanging on a wall Gilligan
 examined the shirt, not finding the money, but did notice "red spot"
 on the shirt. At the time he did
 not pay much attention to the spots and, on cross-examination by Defence Counsel William L. Paul, Jr., was unable to state how many spots there were.
 1 After a preliminary cursory ex- animation of Meeks' room, Gilligan
 commenced detailed search which turned up wallet among maga- zines and newspapers in a dresser
 drawer. The wallet contained the <; money Meeks had accused Vim cent of taking.
 1 Gilligan did not count the money.
 He just looked at it and saw, that
 as Meeks had described, the wal 1 let contained a number of $10O 1 bills-Meeks had said IT of them
 Gilligan also noticed $5 and Sl0 bills, but no $50 bills. Neither did
 he examine the wallet for other Identification, and noticed none. ! He turned the wallet over to Meeks and the two returned to I Vincent's room. Vincent. Meeks
 and Mrs. Myhre were all asked if they wished to swear out com- plaint, Gilligan said-but all three l, refused.
 1 Money Slipped Police As the police were about to leave, iiMeeks insistently said he wanted to pay the police for their trouble. They refused payment, but as they iwere leaving, Meeks rolled up a bill and slipped it into Gilligan's
 hand. It was not until the two officers were out of the building that Gilligan looked at the bill to discover it was of $100 denomina- ton. He went to the Alaskan Hotel and cashed the bill.
 Gilligan definitely denied query | by Paul as to whether he had heard
 Patrolman Dore tell Meeks and Vincent that their fine" would be 1850 each and that they might just as we'll pay it now" The two policemen left the Keystone Rooms ias 10:05 o'clock Sunday evening. Judge J. w. Kehoe today ruled
 out all questions by Paul as to
 whether the Juneau City Council
 had questioned the reward incident, jbut Paul did secure reply that lit was on December IT, shortly following the incident, that Gilli-
 gan resigned from the Juneau ! Police Department, to open the
 way to the shake-up that finally
 brought in an almost entire new police force.
 Money For Aid Gilligan, while still under direct examination by U. s. Attorney Pat rick Gilmore, Jr., stated that he considered the $100 Meeks gave him not payment for not entering complaints against those concerned l in the Keystone Rooms fracas, but that it was for helping to find Meeks' money.
 1 Questions addressed to Gilligan by both prosecution and defense brought out further that: He saw no blood on either Meeks or Vincent at the time. though Vincent had a slight cut over his left eye.
 2-That John Kalinowski, an- other roomer at the Keystone, was i, present as an onlooker throughout the fracas.