Eureka Humboldt Standard from Eureka, California • Page 7

HUMBOLDT February 6, 1963, P. 7 Thomas Meehan Police Inspector Carl Vicknar of Concord, Conta Costa County, in dark suit, looks over the site where the missing Thomas Meehan's car left Highway 101 Friday night and plunged into the Eel River. Hum- boldt County sheriff's deputy Charles Firnekas, shown with Vicknar, went over the known details of the case with the Inspector. New Twisf In Case; Sheriff Re-Checking -For 'Allyn Grcmff Deputy Charles Firnekas is among the many sheriff's a of past searches, but few, if any, have been more baffling than the disappearance of Thomas Meehan. Firnekas mud-covered fragment of glass.

Photo shows how the then-high and swift Eel River has receded since Friday night. While more than 25 men from the Humboldt Counly sheriff's office and ils Mounted and Marine Posses today launched a full-scale manhunt for missing Stale Department of Employment referee Thomas Meehan in the Garberville, Rcdway, and downslrcam areas, others opened another search along an entirely new vein. It was learned from a source in Sacramento this morning thai Meehan, during his college years, had written a considerable amount of poetry and had used the penname Allyn Grantt on all of it. Undersheriff Gene Cox said today that the hotels and motels in that area and along the way are being re-checked to learn if anyone had registered under that name. It is theorized that Median, in a state of shock from the accident in which his car plunged off Highway 101 five miles north of Garberville last Friday night could be suffering from a memory lapse and identifying himself under the name he used in his writing.

Voiced opinion of nearly all officers involved in the search, including those of the Highway Patrol wihch first investigated the crash, is that the missing man is not in the river. Search River Dragging and diving operations, however, are continuing downstream from the wreck point, and the heavy brush areas around the route of the car on its descent are again being combed, inch by inch, in the event that Meehan had been thrown out of the vehicle. Deputy Leonard Lemoreaux, another search-and-rcscuc veteran of foot prints leading from the river's edge 30 feet back up the slope over which his auto plunged. But the footprints stopped and no other clue has been found. The 311-year-old Meehan disappeared from a Rcdway motel after uttering several "death" messages there and earlier at the Southern Humboldt Community hospital here.

He ran out of the hospital after telling a doctor "I feel like I'm dead." Meehan, who has a wife and four children in Concord, is a prominent member of the community. is a member of the board of directors of the Concord Community hospital. Interior of Meehan's car, now impounded in a Garberville garage, does not bear the bent steering wheel or horn ring usual in accident cases involving a major impact. Despite his eyeglasses on the seat, there is no evidence that Meehan actually was in the car when it plunged down the steep bank into the Eel River. Manas By Trary In tod Ira! SAN JOSE (DPI)-- Psychiatrist Jr.

made a determined effort to mation he might have to recon- A. Russell Lee stuck to his story of the multiple personality of Dr. Geza de Kaplany Tuesday in the face of determined questioning by tile prosecution. Lee, who spent eight hours interviewing de Kaplany, maintains that de Kaplany suffers from acute schiezophrenia and that his alter ego, Pierre la Roche, had taken charge of his body when lie poured acid over the nude body of his bride of five weeks last Aug. 28.

The jury heard the tape of the final portions of the second interview between de Kaplany and Lee Tuesday and then the psychiatrist was subjected to cross-examination and redirect examination. Asst. Disl. Atty. John Schatz convince the jury of ten men and two women that Pierre was merely the product of de Kaplany's clever mind.

But Dr. Lee would not be swayed from his opinion that the doctor was not faking insanity. He testified that he put confidence in de Kaplany's stories of dreams featuring laughter and "It's hard to falsify," Lee said. 'But there is something about the quality of his dreams that makes one say they sound true." He said the dreams and de Ka- )lany's story of the crime were consistent with Lee's diagnosis of the defendant as suffering from acute schiezophrenia. At one Lee said "if another psychiatrist got my infor- sider his diagnosis." This was an obvious reference to the four court-appointed psychiatrists who have found that dc Kaplany was legally sane at the time of the crime.

Two of these. Drs. Mervyn Shoor and Walter Rapaporl, will be produced by the prosecution as rebuttal witnesses, according to Dist. Atty. Louis P.

Bergna. On redirect examination, Lee listed three majur points in his diagnosis of de Kaplany as an acute schizophrenic with a multiple personality. These were the facts that dc Kaplany believed his wife was unfaithful, that he believed lie had cancer, and that his mother in Hungary needed his help in getting her oul. 'Wrecked convertible recovered from the Eel River last Friday night has most of the windshield and side windows smashed out-and the top crushed, indicating that Meehan could have escaped, even under water- if he was in the car when it went into the river. for Tender TODAY See Page 28 Advertisement the Humboidt County sheriff's office, with three Marine Posse volunteers are dragging and diving in likely pools and back-eddys of the river, but at press time today had come up with nothing.

Police Inspector Carl Vickner of Concord, Meehan's home city, is on the scene along with local officers to aid in the search and to trade information. Tile Highway Patrol in the Garberville sector, which also ha: made an extensive search of the area, is continuing on an alert basis under direction of Lieutenant Erie Denton, officer in charge of the Patrol's Garberville substation, with the sheriff's Garberville sub-station commander Sergeant M. E. Blackmon heading operations from that office in addition to the Eureka contingents under Cox and Captain Edward Hulberl, chief criminal deputy. Car In River Sheriff William Pederson is in overall charge of the search.

Median's late model convertible was found in the Eel five north of Garberville Friday, 1 '''Ji Hie only clue to his fate were tllp llUEe Ke Gel 1'iUs totiayl Kroeger Murder Trial In Recess For Defense Case SAN FRANCISCO (UPD- The murder trial of placid Ralph and stormy Iva Kroegcr was in recess today as the defense made preparations to open its case in the lengthy proceedings. Defense attorney Emmet Hagerty requested a 24-hour postponement Tuesday and Superior Judge Harry Neubarth dismissed the jury until Thursday morning. The prosecution concluded more than three weeks of testimony Tuesday by calling its G7th witness. The jury of eight women and four men then toured the jasement of the Kroeger home, where the bodies of Mildred and Jay Arneson were found buried last August. The Krocgers are accused of strangling the Arnesons to take over motel property which the victims owned in Santa Rosa.

Mrs. Kroeger. 44, has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity. Her husband, 61, entered a straight plea of innocent. Ralph has maintained a solemn silence throughout the lengthy trial, but Iva has peppered the proceedings cryptic comments aimed at anyone who happened to catch her eye.

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