The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-18

Moody at the jail subsequently and
Moody said to him:
Il want you to understand I am no
killer. 1 am of good people and am
from Texas
why He Had Mask.
Again he said: Because you fellows
got O mask out of my pocket when you
caught me with the Clancy gang you
think am q bad man."
He claimed that the mask had been
placed In his pocket by a member of
the gang.
Moody told wey that he left the Cal
ifornia brewery the night before at 3
O'Clock In company with Cramer and
Franey, and they went to their room
in the Will house and got the alarm
clock from Mrs. Althof at $3.50 o'clock.
About two weeks after that he changed
the hour from $3.50 to 10:30 o'clock. He
said that they went to the brewery
about o'clock, and after they left
there they went to their room and
rushed the can" Wey. City Detective
Murphy and Police officer Leyden
found nothing. The witness testified
that after the arrest of Moody he took
a pocket handkerchief from him.
What kind of a handkerchief was it
and what its condition." asked Mr..
Baldwin.
IL
creased at opposite corners as If IL had
been twisted up and might have been
tied over the face for week.
Upon the objection of Mr.. McClernan
to the testimony the court promptly or
dered the answer to be stricken out.
The witness was allowed to describe
the condition of the handkerchief, and
said he gave it back to Moody and did
not see it again after that. The witness
said he had known Moody since his
connection with the Clancy gang. On
cross examination he said Moody had
never been prosecuted in the Clancy
case.
On cross examination Mr. McClernan
| asked the witness if he had not had the
| murder very much on his mind ever
| since it's commission and If he had not
devoted good deal of time TO it and
| talked a great deal about it,
Mr.. wey said he had given consider
able attention to t.
Have YOU not been working on this
case in the hope of reward?"
NO; / have been working for JUS
| tice'
You know there is reward?"
Yes, SIR
| And you want part OF 1t in case of
| conviction and will not object to TAX
/ ing it?'
Il should say / would take it,
Then you are not like young
/ Meyer"
The witness got slightly mixed up on
/ his eross-examination owing to the fact
4 that he was not permitted to testify To
anything regarding the defendant Fra
ney, and therefore had some difficulty
in separating his testimony, as 1t eff
| fected the two men.
At the conclusion of Weys testimony
| Mr.. McClernan moved to strike out all
| the testimony relating to the handlSer-
chief which Wey said he had taken
from Moody.
The court sustained the motion and
instruc ed the jury 10 disregard the tes-
timony.
Called 1t Frivolous.
The Judge said that he considered the
evidence on that point TO be frivolous.
and Mr. Baldwin took another excep-
ton to the courts language, and SAID
it might prejudice the states case Ill
the minds of the jury.
Clyde c. Coulter, ex-city jailer, testl-
fed that he was on duty at the city jail
when Moody was arrested and brought
in. About 20 or 50 minutes later Fra
ney came and went TO the cell ana heie
conversation with Moody and tols
him that ne had seen Judge Naughten
and that they would nave no tfouple II
proving an alibi.
Franey then turned about and no
tfced that the jafler was listening TO tn
conversation and then remarked tnat !
he had known that Mr.. Coulter wa
there he would not have talked 10 tn
prisoner He had nothing further Z
say to Moody after that. During tn
| conversation referred to Franey tot
Moody that the bulls had just made |
search of their room. In criminal AM
hobo slang "bull' stands for a police
man. Mr.. Coulter said Moody had no
at that time been notified as TO tn
cause OF his arrest, neither had Frame,
haan informed of It, and the witness
could not say what crime F'raney ha'
reference to when he said they woul'
have no trouble In proving an aiibi.
know Moody had not been told why h
was arrested, because he asked me WI.
he was in, and | told MN ne was ai
right" said the witness.
Before the conclusion of Mr. Coulter
toctinnnns. cnurf adjourned for the day