The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-27
LONESOME" TELLS HIS STORY
Turns States Evidence in Bridger Bank ROBBERY Case
Was Sent to Warn i<irley.

meet Jack Kirley and warn him of ,
what had occurred, and that officers
were looking for him.
Lindsay Holds Horses.
Hughes said Reeves told him that
Murray and Countryman robbed the
bank while Lindsay held the horses
outside. He said Lindsay told him
the men stopped on Shane's ridge to
divide the money, and he, Lindsay,
wanted to leave the others there but
Murray and Countryman insisted that
they stay together; that Lindsay also
told him that the night of his arrest
he put his share of the money in the
stove in Rainey McDonald's cabin.
Hughes declared that Murray and
Countryman tried to fix up a scheme
for laying the crime on William jude
man and a man named Beckhorn,
western Carbon county ranchmen.
During a rigid cross-examination by
Judge Goss, Hughes held to his orig
inal statements. According to the
statement of Lawyer l.. B. Reno, just
before adjournment, the case of the
defense will be almost entirely con-
fined to an attempt to prove an alibi.
The state continued the develop
ment Of it's interesting case against
Countryman Murray and Lindsay,
the alleged Bridger bank robbers.
Lindsay seems to possess face which
every one remembers and he was sew
eral times positively identified in the
courtroom.
| Several residents of western Carbon
county testified to having seen the
three men riding toward West Rose
bud canyon, but could not identity
them or their horses. One said they
were so far away they might have
been women. Mrs. James Hyem,
| however, saw them pass her place
and accurately described one gray and
two dark he ses. e. S. Beaman7 the
Gebo liveryman, told of exchanging
the horses the day of the bank rob-
berry, with TIE man who, he said, eX-
actly corresponds with Lindsay, whom
he pointed out.
Identifies Bay Horse.
Beaman also positively identified
the leg and hoof of the bay horse he
let the man have, describing the pc
cularities of the hoofs, in which he
declared on cross-examination, he
could not be mistaken.
w. R. Saffell, who lives three miles
from Bridger, told Of seeing three
men mounted on horses, as previous
ly described in the testimony, ride
slowly into Bridger, and ride back
| again at a swift pace an hour later.
He described the clothing and horses,
but could not identified the men.
/ j. w. Smith, living five miles below
Bridger, saw the same men. He point
ed out Countryman, as the latter sat
in the courtroom between his mother
and sister, as one of the men VINO
turned and looked at him.
Frank Miller was working in the
Bridger livery stable the day OF the
robbery. He saw three men ride into
town and out again, describing their
horses, which he has since seen IN
/ Red Lodge and recognized.
Passed Three Men.
I Bulon Zachery of. Bridger passed
three men on horseback as they were
riding into Bridger He accurately
| described the horses, positively identl-
fed the saddles and pointed out Lind
say as one of the three who turned and
said good day to him. Ernest Robin
son identified one of the saddles in
court, as having been stolen from him
ir Park City last Thanksgiving eve,
and Joe Basset, also resident OF
Park City, declared positively that he
! saw Lindsay in Park City that night.
He identified him in the court room
today.
The most interesting part of the al
ternoon session was when Deputy
Sheriff Smith told of making the trip
to the western part of the county,
armed with searchwarrants and the
finding of the saddles and clothing,
which were identified in court, at Mllt
Runners and w. w. Reeves places,
and in Rainey McDonald's cabin; al
so of the finding of the mutilated body
of a horse, from which he took the
! fore leg and another part of the body
in evidence in court today.
Marks Are Positive.
The leg was the one positively
identified by Mr.. Beaman of Gebo this
morning. as belonging to the horse he