The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-18
R|LEYS DANGEROUS FRAME OF MIND
Ex-County Attorney Wines Offers Sensational Testimony as to
His Conversations With the Prisoner
in Jail.


delusion."
"That was the burden Of his talk?"
The burden of his talk was that he
wanted them to give him oney
Didn't he in those conversations re.
fer to the fact that those people mao
never been prosecutor
II am not certain bou that. He
spoke Of several matters in the civil
proceedings, but I do not think that ne
ever referred to the fact that they had
never been prosecuted. that the grand
Jury failed to indict. OF course, ne may
have for all / know: he may have said
that they had never been prosecuted;
don't remember"
DO you know whether In that con-
~versation. or In one or two OF them
that he had Will you, whether he re-
ferred to the fact that you were the
county attorney and that he had q feel
ing against you for not prosecuting
thai case?"
"Did he have some feeling against
your
Never in the world. At least he
didn't display it. II he did; not the
slightest"
'Didn't he In that first conversation
In the Jail there that you referred to
state to you that you were the county
attorney and that IS people had been
MIX W "a
ing had ever been lone by the county
attorney to bring those people to JUS
tice?"
II don't think, Mr.. Clements. that he
ever referred in any way to any justice
having failed in any way. i know he
spoke OF the fact that he had not en-
deavored in any way to recover a tudg-
ment. a civil judgment. and he spoke
of the fact that he would get his pay
for himself in his own way-something
of that kind; and i don't think Mr..
Riley ever referred to the fact that no
one had been sent to the state prison
on account Of that matter. i don't
think he referred to IT,"
Didn't he manifest some feeling TO-
wards you on that account"
Not the slightest. i nave never had
an idea he had any feelings against
me-"
I'm those conversations did he not re-
fer to the fact that these people had
lodged responsibility by dissolving
their corporations so as TO put them.
selves in a position that they woulo NOT
be liable for damages?"
Il don't believe he referred to that
matter. OF course that matter has been
referred to in Butte. that they have in
some way evaded responsibility
Didn't he say this: they had
| failed, the others that brought actions,
| 0rOugnt SultS ~ udHidbCc AZ -
| ceiyed injuries there had failed, and
| hat he had a plan Of his own
..Mr. Clements, IL Mr.. Riley referred
to the fact himself in that way l ave
| entirely forgotten 1t. / would say.
| however, that he referred to the fact
| that he would collect in his own way,
something of that kind"
I'm that connection didn't he state
that others were taking other plans!'
mo, sir. / said to him. you have
| not commenced a civil suit; you don't
want to get out and talk about kill
| ing people. because that Is a serious
| matter; you are a poor man, you are
| unable to give a bond. i told him
il he continued these threats he GER
| tainly would have to lie in jail for
some time. I was doing that, IL you
desire to know why, simply for the
reason that ] wanted to see him get
out of tail. and I didn't desire the COM
munity to think that We had thrown
him in Jail"
You can ~recollect q great deal about
what you said: can you recollect What
MIR. Riley said?"
II have tol you what Mr.. Riley
said"
Mr.. Riley did the smaller part of
the talking?"
Yes, SIR"
You did most Of it?"
Yes, sir"
You can only recollect of his using
threatening language on those occa-
sions?"
Il think, Mr.. Clements, that he was
a man at that time OF very few words,
and he wanted a certain amount OF
money. That was what he talked
about"
Did he use threatening language in
more than one of those Conversations
Il told you that he was a man OF
few words; tina almost the full con-
versation was each time repeated by
him; he had n thing 10 say n he
said it,"
You have not answered my ques-
ton"
I'm the conversations that ! had with
him, MI. Riley's words were OF the
same tenor"
II understood you to say that the
first conversation was the conversa-
ton where he referred to the fact that
some one would get hurt?'
Yes, sir, / said that was his con-
yersation, and I said I had seen him
a time or two or three or four times
during that period of time. and tha'
was about the purport Of his CONVEX
sations."
That was when he wal in jail?"
Yes, sir, in the city jail"
'dOW lOu& W8o uc IA ~ shoe eth'S
II don't remember: o q period
Of two days"
And these conversations occurred
during that timer
Yes, sir"
And he was in Jail at that time a
the i~nstigation OF these people.
"Of that matter I don't know OF m,
own knowledge; I couldn't tell"
1T grew out OF some d~ificulty will
Mr.. Connell?"
] III 1 am not mistaken not out OF
personal encounter. / think there wa
{ some charge against him that he wa
in front of Connells store laying 70
e Mr.. Cornell with a gun ! do not know
. anything of that OF my own knowl
edge"
when was this with reference {
: the time Of Mr.. Largey's death?"
This was in October or Novembei
I Sc; MI. Largely was killed. IL i re