The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-02
US PLANES ATTACKED BY RUSSIANS

courtroom throng indulged in the first chuckle heard during the en- tire trial proceeding when Hardness testified he remembered he had eaten ham and eggs and hot cakes at the Dew Drop Inn that Satur- day afternoon, because he was thinking of Meeks' rolling proposi- tion at the time. And that made you think of ham and eggsP" Paul asked.
 Asked who besides law officers and Meeks he had talked to about the Campbell case, Hardness recited that he had once told a cook at the Imperial Cafe that he "knew some- thing about the case that he was afraid to tell the FBI because George Meeks had been threatening him."
 That conversation occurred in December and in it Hardness told the cook of Meeks' bloody shirt.
 When first asked by Paul if he was held as a material witness in this case, Hardness replied yes, since about January 10; then said that he had been arraigned as mater ial witness in another case, not the one now on trial.
 In reply to prosecution objection, Paul stated his contention the questioning was proper as showing interest and a bias.
 Asst. U. s. Attorney Robert Boochever described as an attempt to confuse the jury, the bringing in of matters pertaining to the other case; that it would only be proper to bring out by direct ques- tion that Hardness is complaining witness against Meeks in another criminal case-not the details of that case.
 Never Heard of Reward In answer to question by Paul, 1 Hardness replied he is not the com planning witness in the case now on trial, but is in another case. Through yesterdays cross-exam- ination, Hardness displayed an ap- parent hostile attitude toward de- fense questioning.
 Asked if he had heard there was reward offered for information leading to the conviction of Camp bells murderer, Hardness replied he had heard "rumors" of a reward 1 but does not believe there was one. He denied having talked to other {; prisoners in the Federal jail here
 almost every day for the past
 month regarding the reward and
 that he expected to get it. Paul specifically mentioned the names ! of prisoners Charlie Chuck and James Franklin Willis in this con- nection.
 A line of questioning regarding $10 no good check that Meeks
 had picked up for Hardness and Hartness' statement that Meeks had
 threatened to turn him into the
 FBI on the check finally led to Judge Kehoe's ruling that admitted
 details of the incident in Room 205 of the Gastineau Hotel, when Hart
 ness suffered 27 superficial knife cuts.
 Testimony regarding the conver-
 sation there and the fight Hart
 ness alleges followed an attack on him by Meeks, was much the same as Hardness told at Meeks' prelim- { mary hearing on the assault
 charge. Hartness' testimony yester- day disclosed some confusion as to i times and gave further details Of 1 the conversation that took place,
 i. e.
 FBI Suspicion Meeks told Hardness not to tell jthe FBI about the conversation to roll this man."
 Question: Did you talk about iMeeks being under suspicion? An- Swer: Yes.
 | Question: Did you talk about yourself being under suspicion by the FBI? Answer: Meeks said they're calling us both for a lot
 of questioning"
 1 Hardness declared that just be-
 fore the fight began, Meeks had 1 accused Hartness of talking too
 much to the FBI' about Meeks. ! Questioning then elicited a de-
 scription of the fight and cutting
 from Hartness-just shortly before Court adjourned until 10 o'clock l this morning, with Hardness still
 on the witness stand. At the beginning of yesterday
 afternoons session, Judge Kehoe signed a defense motion calling for i the subpoena of Helen Jackson and
 Susan Jackson as defense witness
 es.
 PETERSBURG MAN HERE 1 Dale Brouillard of Petersburg is