The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-03-01
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kloocheS on South Franklin Street" Meeks then proposed that he and Hardness get the "big shot" drunk, Init him over the head and take his money away" Hartness asked who the "big shot" was, but MeekS refused to say, identifying the proposed victim only as man that wore glasses and saying that he would point the man out to Hart ness.
 Hardness refused to join in the rolling" plot and shortly later left Meeks' room. Meeks was then go- ing back to work at the Alaska Electrict Light and Power Com pany.
 MeekS Has Roll The witness next described an occurrence Sunday evening, De- cember 9, at his own room in the Salo Rooms. He said he was there with his girl. Lena Brown. Meeks knocked on the door and when he entered appeared to have been drinking. Meeks had whiskey with him and the three drank to- gether. Meeks then told Hardness and Mrs. Brown of a fight he had with Peanuts" over $8 he said Peanuts had taken from him.
 Meeks then pulled out a wallet and showed Hardness and the girl that it was full of money-$5o and $1o0 bills. Meeks told Hartness to count it, but the latter refused, whereupon Meeks counted the money over himself. Hardness des- cribed the currency as seventeen $l00 bills, four $50 bills. two $20 bills and two $10 bills.
 { Hardness asked Meeks where he had got the money and was first told that it had been wired Meeks 1 by his parents who were wealthy people in Georgia" Later Meeks changed that story to one that he had it in bank at Anchorage and that it had been wired to the B M. Behrends Bank here. In third ac- count, Meeks told Hartness that he ! had the money with him all the time and had won it gambling at l Anchorage.
 Changes Story 1 When Hardness then asked Meeks why the latter had borrowed money here, the defendant again changed his story to "that he had got it from a man here"
 Meeks then suggested that if Lena Brown and Hardness would help Meeks get his girl friend, Dora Paul Kuich, to go along, Meeks would pay the plane fare for the four of them to go to Anchorage; Hardness then left to go after orange juice for Mrs. Brown. When he returned, about l1:55 O'Clock, Meeks was still in the room and asked that neither Hardness nor. the girl tell anyone about the money Meeks had.
 GeLS CtedU SItTL When he was about to leave a little later, Meeks called Hardness into the hall where the defendant asked if Hardness had a clean shirt Meeks could borrow Asked why he wanted to borrow 2 shirt, Meeks opened his jacket and shoT- ed that the dark shirt he was wearing was spatlered with blood on the front
 Meeks went into the bathroom, where Hardness took a clean, light blue shirt to him. Meeks then and there changed shirts, after which he tore his own blood stained shirt into little pieces and flushed it down the toilet.'
 Meeks also removed his under shirt, which Hartness saw was also bloodied. It Meeks rolled up and placed in one of his pockets.
 The two men then returned to Hartness' room where he stayed with Hardness and Lena Brown un- til about five minutes before o'clock a. m That was op Mon day morning, December 10--the day on which the slashed body of the murdered man, Campbell, was dis covered in the Scatter Tract here. When he left, Meeks said he had someplace else to go.
 Sends Money To Dora Hardness next saw Meeks at about l12:30 o'clock D. m. Monday, when the two again met at the Imperial. Meeks again asked Hardness to go to his room at the Keystone, this time to write a letter for Meeks. Hartness agreed and when they ar rived there wrote a letter to Dora Paul Kuich as Meeks dictated it. Hardness also signed the letter for Meeks.
 Introduced in evidence, this let ter was read aloud by Hardness. It stated that Meeks was sending Dora money. as he had promised her A second letter that Hardness wrote and signed to Meeks' dictation. about a week later. was also intro duced and read. It was directed to Eddie Schwaesdall. at Fairbanks and asked that Schwaesdall not disclose to anyone that he had loaned Meeks money at Anchorage --as Meeks was already in plenty of trouble here. It specifically ask