The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-01-20
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

YESTERDAY ...--~ERNOON
 Yesterdays court session on the trial of George Meeks for the staying of Clarence Campbell was resumed in the afternoon with testimony by Dr. William White head, who had examined the body of the victim shortly after it was found in the Seattor tract on De- cember 10, 1945.
 He seid Campbell had probably bled to death from a severed artery at the threat, and assumed that he had been dead for from four to eight hours, although he could have lain there for 36 hours CT longer Heavy rains prevented sure eS- innate. He also said there was a possibility that the deceased had been killed elsewhere and removed to the spot where he was found.
 Dr. L. w. Hines, an optometrist at Anchorage, testified that he had prescribed lenses for Campbell in 1944, and in 1947 had been asked by FBI agent John Hayes to iden- tify pair Of glasses which proved to be the same he had made for Campbell
 He re-examined them in the pres ence of the court, and Prosecuting Attorney P. J. Gilmore then form ally offered as plaintiffs exhibit number 6 the glasses, which were found by 9-year-old Judy Foss near her home about a year after the crime had occurred in that vii cinity
 Defense Counsel asked that the jury be excused and entered an objection to the exhibit as being immaterial He said the glasses were found year after the crime, and that they could have been de- liberately placed there. The ob- jection was over-ruled.
 Victims Employment
 The next witness was Arthur O. Peterson, who had been manager of the Alaska Construction Com pany during the period when Campbell was employed with the company at Hoonah and Juneau. He said that he saw the deceased here on December 8, 1945, and that Campbell agreed to do some ur- gently needed work on the Channel Apartments on Sunday morning, but that he never appeared
 Peterson said that Campbell was in the habit of travelling to Juneau, and that he may have come here to draw money on his account with the company. He stated that in the approximately seven months that Campbell had worked with his firm, he had been paid about S5,200
 Mrs. Hanna Dinsdale testified that Campbell had stayed at her boarding house from November Is to 22, 1945, and again on December ' and 8.
 Rex Sunderland, formerly pro- prietor of the Gastineau Liquor Company on South Franklin, was called and stated that he had known Campbell, and that the lat ter had entrusted him on Novem Der B with $2,25O in 19 hundred dollar bills and seven fifty dollar bills.
 Sunderland said he deposited them in Behrend's Bank, and that he met with Campbell to withdraw the money around noon on Decem- Der 8. After he had paid various debts at the liquor store, Camp bell then left with 19 hundred dollar bills, he said Campbell had meantime, he said, Campbell had come around after midnight on the previous night to borrow s5, and he had been accompanied by a man and two women
 Woman TeStifieS
 The next government witness was Theresa Johnson, who had become acquainted with Campbell at the Midget Bar in November and had spent the night of December g Sunday morning. with him in his lodgings at the Keystone Rooms.
 She said that he showed her large amount of money shortly be- fore he left, between 10:30 and II o'clock Sunday morning. She said she was unable to determine
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