The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-07-08

crime.
| When asked why they had shot
Hannah he replied that when men
undertook job of that kind they were
| prepared to do anything to escape;
| that the officer had sought to arrest
them and they shot him.
! AS Related by Moser.
In his confession Moser lays the
blame for suggesting the rosaerey
onto the two Gradys. He said that
ED" Grady broached the subject OF
rcbbing the, Owl saloon to him two
fcr three months ago, but he had
refused to go into it, Subsequently
Jim Grady had taken up the mat
| ter and repeatedly urged him to join
them. Finally he consented, but with
the understanding that no one was to
be hurt, saying he did not want to
! kill any one.
( Last Thursday, he said, 'Jim'' Grady
!. had ridden to the Newman ranch,
where Moser had been working, and
told him he had looked over the
ground and it would be dead easy"
/ Friday night, he said, he came to
town and went to the Davidson house,
where he met the two Gradys and
/ which was his first meeting with
Ed" who told him he had been under
cover for a couple of days and tha,
IL the robbery was to be committed
1t would have to be that night or not
at all. Preparations for the job were
at once begun They secured over
coats and made the masks they wore
a. the time Of the robbery.
At about IL o'clock he and ED
Grady came up town, cutting across
the Northern Pacific yards, and took
up a place in the alley in the rear
OF the saloon that was to be robbed.
They had been there sometime when
Jim" Grady appeared and brought
them bottle OF beer. He left them
and went to the Northern hotel, where
ia dance was in progress After the
dance was over he came back to them
and told them he had been in the
saloon, saying, "now's the time. It's
pickings." With this Jim left them
and they undertook the robbeey.
Moser's account of the events that
occurred in the saloon and III the
alley is practically the same as that
given by the bartender at the inquest
and to the newspaper reporters. He
claims that Grady fired the first shot
at Hannah and that then he shot The
officer with the shotgun he carried.
After the shooting, he SAID, they ran
north to the Burlington tracks and
then west to near the brickyard, cross
ing the drainage ditch in their flight.
Into the latter they threw the shot
gun and also the masks and part OF
the clothes they wore.
Money Is Recovered.
Moser told where the money taken
from the saloon was cached and to
aid in it's recovery drew rude map
OF the locality where he said it had
been buried.
Supplied with this information, Mr..
Potter came to Billings tuesday ev-
ening. Accompanying him was Doc
tor j. A. Crum of Chance. They went
to the place indicated and securing
rake made careful search of the
ground, raking up every spot that in.
dicated recent disturbance Of the soil.
The search proved long and tedious,
but was finally rewarded by Doctor
Crum striking the exact spot with his
foot. Some of the loose coin was un.
eErthed first and then the bag came
into view In all 1910 was recovered.
The place where the money was
buried is northwest of the city about
a mile, near the brickyard.
Moser said that after the had buried
the money he and Grady passed west
of the Sisters hospital and south to
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the Davidson house, where they ar
rived few minutes before Sheriff
Hubbard appeared. He furthermore
said that he had not seen Grady since
the time they jumped out of the win
dow, as they separated as soon as
they struck the ground.
Had Another .Inh IL ViAxu
In his confession Grady said they
had expected to make no more than
$500 or $500 as the proceeds of the
Owl robbery and had undertaken it
merely for the purpose OF gaining
stake" to tide them over until the
time was ripe for another "job" they
had planned He refused to say what
the other was, but said it was a big