Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1905-12-19

all Of his many friends felt that it
would be- 1t became necessary to look
around for someone else. The goods
had been found under the office of the
Fergus County Argus 1t became a
very self evident fact that someone
who was, in some way, connected
with the business establishment must
know something of the entire affair.
The very character of every person in
any wise connected with the business
made it almost inconceivable that the
crime could be located at the door of
any one of them
Manager H. r. Watson. who was
in discovering the identity of the man
who had placed the goods under the
Argus building, remembered that
young jamie Sherman, an employe in
the stationary department had sever
al weeks previously, raffled off a hair
bridel such as are made by convicts in
the state penitentiary. The officers
had learned that Studzinski had III his
possession, such bride at the time
Of his death. All members Of the Ar
gus force took chances on the bride
and Sherman retained two Of the
chances and a few days after dispos-
inc of the remainder he told one of
the boys that one of his chances won
the bride. The attention of the offic-
ers was called to this fact by Mr..
Watson, and Sherman was asked as
to how the bride came into his pos
session and replied that a friend by
the name of Lewis had sent it UP to
him from Wyoming. An examination
of the express books showed that no
Sherman any time within the period
which he might have received il. This
was the first suspicious circumstance
es and the officers started to look up
the actions of the young man since
the first burglary last June.
1t was found upon investigation,
that the young fellow had lost a large
sum of money in gambling house in
the city and that he had tried his luck
where so-called games of chance We're
conducted. The salary of the Young
man was SIS per week and it was
known that he had been devoting the
greater portion of this money toward
the support of his family, Of rathef
toward assisting his father in that
laudabe work. 1t was therefore
somewhat of a mystery how he tame
into possession of the amount of mon
ey which he was known to have lost.
1t was found by Mr.. Watson that
Sherman had made a payment of $3.50
in prominent business establish
ment. This payment was made two
days after the post office was burglar
| ized, which occurred on the 2Sth of
September.
By this time the suspicious circlm-
| stances We're piling mountain high
| against the young man. Those Who
| knew of all of the facts We're praeti-
cally convinced by Thursday tlat
| they were on the track of the nan
who knew all about the murder Of
Samuel Studzinski. The crOwbar
which was used about the Argus
building was taken to the Goldn
Rule and places formerly occupied by
J. c. Bebb. now the c. o. d. store, AMI
the H. c. Brown store, on the coraet
of Fifth avenue and Main street, both
actly fitten in the numerous
places made in the window frames b!
the bar with which those Windows
were opened when the stores wrt
broken into. 1t was found that ShT-
man had engaged AL Kline, the tinri
of the Montana Hardware company
to make key for the back door D
the Argus office. When asked col
J cerning this fact, Sherman fatty d.
! MED ever having had Kline mal'
such key and held to this denial ef
en- after he had been faced by the III
, lner.