The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-24
JADOFF RESOLVED
 OF ROBBERY HERE
 BY GRAND JURORS
Three True Bills Returned in District Court
 This Morning

Three criminal indictments and one not true bill" were returned in U. S. District Court here this morn ing by the grand jury following it's first full-day session yesterday. Indicted are: Joseph Willard Johnson, charged with escaping the custody of an United States officer; 1 Carroll Hambrick, Jr., on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minor girl, and Ernest w. Me Kinney, on two counts of forgery in- vclving the cashing of a $10 check at the Gastineau Hotel here last ! November, to which it is alleged he forged the name of Charles Parker.
 Presiding Judge J. w. Kehoe or dered that all three prisoners be brought before him for arraignment at 10 o'clock next Saturday morning
 The grand jurors quashed 1 charge of robbery against Jack D. Jadoff, former Juneau liquor dealer ! More business for the grand jury T ing on the steamer North Sea, un- | der the wing of Wrangell Deputy Marshal George Taylor. Deputy ! Taylor, returning from a trip to the states with committed insane, brought to Juneau five prisoners from Ketchikan and one from i Wrangell.
 i The Wrangell prisoner is Allen { Garland Keithley, who is accused of cutting with intent to kill, wound, or main. He is alleged to have whittled the neck of native wo- man, Agnes Dubke, who is now re- covering in the Wrangell hospital. Keithley, bound over to the grand jury under $2,500 bond, was charged after investigation by Special Deputy Marshal James Nolan at Wrangell. It is reported that Mrs. Dubke's wounds could well have proved fatal due to loss of blood, had her plight not been promptly discovered. The cutting occurred last week
 From Ketchikan, Deputy Taylor escorted the following five prisoners here: Thomas Sumstad, charged with two counts of forgery; Henry Olaf Nesteby, charged under the Selective Service Act with failure to report for induction into the armed forces; Charlie Chuck, accused of grand larceny; J w Thomas, charg- ed with larceny by check, two counts; and Charles Albert Thomp- son, indicted at Ketchikan for forg- cry, two counts.
 Sumstad is alleged to have count erfeited the name of John Garner on check for $134.14, cashed at Ketchikan on June Is, 1945. He waived preliminary hearing at Ketchikan and was bound over to the grand jury under $2,000 bond. t Nesteby was arrested at Craig in August, 1945, on warrant issued at Juneau on complaint from his Sitka Draft Board He has not yet been committed for grand jury action and may receive a preliminary hearing before the U. S. Commissioner here. Nesteby is under S1 500 bond.
 Charlie Chuck, under six months suspended sentence from the Com missioners Court here on a disorder ! ly conduct charge and also under a suspended sentence in the States On a felony charge of perjury in or der to return to Alaska, is now charged with having stolen food and other items from the gasboat Hilda, at Craig, Alaska, on Janu- ary 8, this year He waived pre- lliminary hearing and ahs been bound over to face the grand jury under s1 800 bond.
 The felony charges against Thomas resulted from worthless check for $100, drawn on a Macon, Georgia bank, which he is alleged to have issued to Harold Blanton of Ketchikan on November g, 1914 Thomas has already been bound over to the grand jury.
 Thompson is accused of counterfeit ing a check for $40, signing it with the name of the Walker Spruce Company, by w. M Walker, of Ketchikan The offense is stated to have occurred on December 30, 1943. Already indicted, Thompson has been brought to Juneau for pleading and trial. He is under $2,500 bond
 
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