The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-02
Witnesses Who Were Very Par
ticular to Notice 1t Was 1O:45.
THE OLD THING STOPS
Dreamer Read in the Standard That the
Police Were Looking for Him-He
Let Them Keep on Looking.
jenkins Friend Fanny

put through searching cross-exam.
lnation by Mr.. Baldwin. A transcript
Oh MS testimony given at the prelim-
mary examination was used by the at
torney, who asked him to explain why
ne kept in hiding SO long before he
concluded to come to the rescue of his
friend. His explanation was evasive
and unsatisfactory. He said he did
not know the preliminary examination
was in progress until he read it in the
Standard and it had then been in
progress for some time.
The Standard mentioned your name
and described you as the mysterious
individual for whom the police were
looking?' asked Mr.. Baldwin
/ Yes sir. That was the first / knew
the examination was going on
You knew then that the examina-
ton was going on and that the police
| We're looking for you, and yet you did
not come forward to help your friends
| out?'
Il thought that if the police We're
looking for me they might keep on till
they found me-"
You preferred to be known as the
mysterious ndividual?t'
NO sir
You knew the police were looking
for your
THE Standard said So
Yet You did not come up for a good
while after then, knowing, as you say,
that you We're the only witness your
friends. the defendants had to prove
an alibi?"
Il was in town off and on"
MI. BALDWIN questioned Dreamer as
TO his. knowledge of the fact that
Frank Moody was arrested in connec-
ton with the Clancy gang of robbers
Al Ohjpcfinn de. to h.,
and Mr.. Baldwin said he wanted to
show that Creamer was interested in
and associa ed with that class of peo-
pie. The objection however, was sus-
tanned.
IF you knew that Moody vas ar
rested for that why did you afterwards
associate with him?''
Another objection was sustained, and
then, In reply to other questions the
witness said he had never told any one
as to what he would testify to. had
consulted with no one, and always told
the same story.
You made up story and you pro-
pose 10 stick to it, is that it?''
Il always stick to facts"
On redirect examination Dreamer
said Franey did not wear beard on
the night of May %, the night of the
murder.
The deposition of Attorney T. A. Nor
rim was read. He testified that he saw
F'raney on the 9th and asked him
about his hand. which had been broken.
IL was in splints and the bandages COW
cred the right hand up to the knuckles.
he mana ana myers We're swollen and |
helpless. In the opinion of Morrin the |
nand could not be used for anything. |
previous to that day he had seen /
Franey carry the hand in a sling.
In connection with the testimony of |
Morrin the statements of some of the
Young Meyer testified that when he
saw Franey near the scene of the muir
der his hand was bandaged Henry
kfoeger, the murdered mans brother
testified that the robber who confronted
him held his revolver as if his arm or
hand was injured. He held the arm
crooked and his hand seemed to be
partially covered, either with a long
,oat sleeve or bandage.
Deputy Sheriff p. II. Sidey was the
lext witness called by the defense for
ne purpose of contradicting the testi-
nony of Henry Kroeger. Mr.. Sidley
aid that on the first or second of June
It O'Clock in the morning. Kroeger
anne into the sheriff's office and Mr..
S1dley asked him if he had yet seen
'raney, who was then under arrest.
<roeger replied that he had just seen
im and added.
He's not one of the men. He's en-
rely too small. The other man." re-
erring to Moody, lis about the right
lze, but | could not say that he is
ne of them
On cross-examination Mr.. Sidley said
hat he Immediately lost all confidence
4 F'raney and Moody being the right
len. after the statement made bv
>roeger There was another suspect ,
AIMED A. F. Mccall under arrest at i,
hat time. but the witness did not !
nlnk kroeger could have referred to ;
icCali. because he was specially
sked as to Franey. ,
Mr. Baldwin tried to bring out from !
ne witness an admission that Kroeger .
light have been thinking of Mccall.
nd the court told him to conclude the I,
|,
Mr. sidley. just want to ask you T. T.
ne question" said Mr.. Naughton af y
r Mr.. Baldwin had concluded his ex- :"
of the witness.
NO, you DON'T interrupted the
,urt. Step aside there. Mr.. Sidley." G.
Mr.. Sidley stepped aside and Arthur Il
VIII. son of Mrs. Althoff. was called :,
Id gave further testimony concern a.
e the famous Will house clock. which
Dictated that it was 10:45 o'clock when | n
raney and Moody came in on the
gnt OF the murder but which, Mrs
lthof IL days afterwards remem- ~
red. was always kept quarter of an M
,ur fast. Mr. viii said he Was 2s -,
4.
ade and that he had always attended
the regulation of his mothers noted n.
neplece and that. at her request he
pt 1t 10 minutes ahead Of the regu- h,
time. On cross-eXamination he said
old clock often stopped and that I
out two weeks ago il stopped for
Cd
Was not the clock tempered with or m
anged after the preliminary trial?'
ked Mr.. Baldwin.
Not tn my knowledge. "
10 you not remember your mother CI
ting the clock back?
And afterwards asked YOU to set II be
cad again?"
No sir. -
X Holden. another clock witness.
TINED that ne VAS playing whist in vi
ONCE Of the win house when Fra
ahG MOODY called TO borrow the
rm clock. Like all the other cIocL. l.,
tneSses he narficnIarIv nnticol - ] Ii