The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-30
A0HANDAS cANDHI KILLED BY ASSASSIN

accused man. He declared that as a result of this and continued questioning by the FBI, signing of the formal statement by Meeks was not mentally voluntary. Meeks, when questioned by his defense counsel, declared that these cir cumstances scared me"
 Helps Both Sides
 Amy Ebona was the final de- fense witness to be called to the stand She corroborated Meeks' statements that she and an un- identified soldier had used his room at the Keystone Rooms on the morning of December 10 for about an hour. She appeared slow to give her testimony and Paul got her to admit that she had dis cussed her testimony with the Dis trict Attorney and the FBI.
 She said that Meeks gave them the key and told the soldier to lock the door when they lett. On cross examination by Boochever, she stated that she had never left the soldier while at the Key stone. She declared that Meeks had not purchased any watch from the soldier.
 Motion Denied
 Following the conclusion of their defense presentation, Monagle and Paul entered a motion to strike the testimony of FBI laboratory ex- perts Beach and McDaniel, FBI Agen Didelius and witness Hart ness regarding blood on the clothes of the defendant. Paul stated that this testimony should be stricken be- cause clothes of the deceased had been destroyed and it was i'm possible to make comparative blood tests.
 Rebut:s. Begins
 Original rebuttal testimony of the late Lloyd J. Campbell, father of the murder victim, was first to be entered by the government in it's rebuttal. The testimony stated that his son never went anywhere without his glasses.
 Eddie Schwaesdall was the next rebuttal witness. He described the fight at Gulkana between Blackie Byrne and Meeks. He said the former called Meeks a very bad name and that Meeks then struck him and knocked him down. He said that Meeks hit Byrne several times. picking him up each time he went down and hitting him again.
 Schwaesdall also reiterated that he had loaned Meeks $60 for trans portation to Juneau but admitted that he had frequently left large sums of money with the defendant for safekeeping.
 NO MOiley fOr Liquor
 John Ritter repeated that he had written a letter to Schwaes- dall at Meeks' request stating that the latter was broke and would pay him back as soon as he had a job. He also stated that Meeks had someone else write a letter to Schwaesdall asking him to say nothing about the loan if ques- toned.
 Ritter also said that he gave some money to Meeks and guaran- teed his hotel bill but did not give the accused man any money for a bottle oi whiskey.
 Stayed With Meeks
 Dora Kuich testified that she had seen Meeks in the Occidental Bar about 8 p. m., Monday, De- cember 10, 1945. and that he bought her beer and handed her letter with $50 inside of it. She said that Kelso Hartness had de- livered a Christmas package to her earlier that afternoon from Meeks which contained a purse and a sweater.
 She admitted staying with Meeks in the City Cafe Rooms for about a week and admitted also that the $50 was in payment for that. She said she seen Meeks again on the following evening in the Salo Rooms with Lena Brown and Kelso Hartness.
 Campbell With Meeks
 Upon questioning from defense counsel, she admitted talking to Gilmore and Boochever within the past few days. She also admitted that she wasn't asked anything about the letter, accompanying the $50 in the original trial
 Virginia Brown testified she was absolutely sure that Clarence Campbell had been in Meeks' room at the Keystone on Sunday, Dec. g. She said she knew both Camp bell and John Kalinowski, but re- iterated that she saw Campbell there.
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