The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-07-04

| of the building and told them to go
ahead and search. There was a pile
of hides near one corner, and Her
man looked through this and found
two hides that he claimed were his.
Lang then told them that there were
four other fresh hides in the pile
that had come from the new bunch
of cattle and for him to examine
them also, as if any of the hides
we're crooked all were crooked. Lang
also told him to go down to the cor
raj and look at a particular COW
that was there, for the reason before
! stated in regard to the crookedness
| of the bunch.
Herman loaded the two hides in
sacks and brought them to Kalispell,
while Lang remained on the ranch,
and that evening he was arrested by
officers O'Neill and Therriault
Lang denied Roberts testimony
that he knew the cattle were stolen
and swore that he bought them in
! good faith. He also stated that he
had never told Roberts that he would
buy all the cattle that Roberts and
Robinett could steal. He swore posi-
lively that he had paid Roberts for
the eight head of cattle in the office
of w. E. Daggett.
On examination Lang stuck
to his story and despite the closest
| hn hIIt eli OH 1y rot
tied. At the close of his testimony
the court took a recess until eight
o'clock, when arguments were COM
menced by the respective counsel
At that hour County Attorney Oil
yer opened for the prosecution, and
gave brief resume of the case. He
spoke but a short time and dwelt
upon the alleged fact that Lang was
well aware that the cattle had been
stolen.
He was followed by Sidney M. Lo-
gan for the defense, who made one
of the strongest and most forcible ar
guments ever made in the Flathead
county court room. For two hours
| he held the attention of the court and
/ the spectators, as he carefully went
over the testimony and tore the evil
dence of the state to shreds. Roberts,
the star witness for the prosecution,
was handled without gloves. John
Herman was also roasted to a turn,
and the whole basis of the prosecu-
ton was attributed to spleen and a
desire to send Lang to the peniten-
tiary, whether guilty or not. Taking
up Roberts he claimed that if the
! jury believed it, they would have to
believe that the majority of witnesses
on both sides told lie, as their stor-
les were in direct contradiction. Rob-
erts, he said, swore that Lang had
paid him the money for the cattle on
the road to Kalispell, while Lang's
story that it had been paid in the
meat market was substantiated by
two different witnesses, and Roberts
was unsupported.
Roberts testimony that the entire
bunch of % head were stolen cattle
was contradicted by several different
witnesses, who swore that Is of them
belonged to Lang. Logan dwelt on
the fact that if Lang knew the cattle
had been stolen he would have made
J some attempt to get them off his
place instead of leaving them where
} they could easily be found.
Regarding the hides belonging to
! John Herman that were found in the
J slaughter house, he asked if it was
reasonable to suppose that if Lang
knew they were Herman's and thai
they had been stolen he would have
: left them in the slaughter house after
; Herman's first visit to his ranch. In
stead of getting them out of sight he
threw open the doors on Herman's
second trip and allowed all the light
, possible to enter, so that the eagle
, eyed sleuth of the Bitter Root" a:
, he called Herman, could inspect the
hides. He also spoke of Herman as
the ''hydra-headed monster who eats
/. cattle thieves without salt" He
r scored the Montana Stock association
: for their animosity toward Lang and
: picked out the discrepancy in the
) testimony of the witnesses for th'
prosecution.
, Logan closed at about IL o'clock
: and as it was so late, the arguments
/ of Grubb, for the defense, and Nc
e Intire, for the prosecution. were post
? poned until Thursday morning at