The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-11-01
HELD TO THE
DISTRICT COURT
Registration Repeater Will
Stand Trial.
HE ADMITS HIS GUILT.
Says He Registered Twice-Unable to
Furnish Bail Goes to
Jail.

was given a preliminary hearing in
Justice Nichols court this afternoon
on the charge of illegal registration
and held to the district court in de-
fault of $1,000 bail.
Albert l.. Stone, the first witness,
said he had met Kemp in the Cali
fornia Brewery about two weeks ago.
Kemp had roomed with him at 919
South Wyoming street, and he knew
of Kemp having occupied a room at
24O 1-2 East Park street, whence
he had gone after leaving 919 South
Wyoming street.
do you remember Oct. 2O?" asked
Mr.. Alley. Il don't remember the
date" did you register o nthat
date?' Yes, SIR did anybody
els register with your Eyes, sir.
Mr.. Kemp did on my address"
What name did he use?' 81 can't
remember, but l think it was Thomas
Thorpe" who registered first?"
81 did, Did Kemp register from
e1e South Wyoming st:eet?" Eyes,
sir" And 240 IL East Park
street." "Yes, sir. We registered
from the latter number at South
Wyoming street, and South Main
street from other numbers on South
Wyoming. IN South Main, Kemp
used his right name"
On cross-eXamination the witness
was asked by the prisoner where he
got authority for him (Kemp) to
register more than once, and wit
ness replied that he had told him
he himself, could register as many
times as he desired. He had taken
the cue from that, Pinkham, agent for
District No. s, produced an affidavit
signed by Kemp at the time the lat
ter registered and identified the pris-
oner a sthe one who had signed it.
The document bore the name of Will
liam T. Kemp. Mr.. Pinknam also
identified Stone as the man who had
registered under the name of Thomas
Edwards.
Alexander Anderson, registry clerk
in District 19 identined Stone and
Kemp as having registered at his Of
flee at No. 4 South Arizona street,
Oct. 20, adding that they had given
their address as room -, No. 24O IL
East Park street. Kemp had regis
tered under the name Of Thomas
Thorpe and Stone under mis- proper
name.
Maggie Peterson, who conducts a
lodging house No. 240 1-2 East Park,
said she had known Kemp only a
few days having met him about two
weeks ago when he applied for a
room. She did not know him by the
name of Thorpe, it was Kemp. Kemp
had no money, but she aAowed him
to sleep in the room one night and
then transferred him to a room oc-
cupied by Hugh R. Wagner. He had
remained there one night and then
taken another room. Mr.. Wagner
testified that he had taken Kemp
in at first a sa persona. friend ana
asked him if he had registered. An
affirmative reply had been given.
Kemp had worked at the Butte re-
duction works. Two nights ago he
failed to return to the house and wit
ness wondered what had become of
him. J. C. Brummett, an expert in
penmanship testified to the similarity
of signature to affidavits signed by
Kemp at two places. The registra-
tion agent gave as his opinion that the
two had been written by the same
person. Kemp told his story and
let it go at that. He admitted hav-
ing registered twice, adding that he
had been led into it by Stone and
that he did not know he was doing
wrong. Il told him at the time l
did not think was doing right, but 4e
had influence that would protect me-"
said Kemp. II was promised moth.
ing for registering twice. l did 4.
because l had changed my place OF
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