Imperial Valley press., 1920-03-30
HYDE'S STORY LNDICTS HILLS

9. Ike is ro, IL the sheiiff's office
now is he?
4. No.
Q, Did you ever luv the matters that
You have discovered before the dis
trlct attorney then after you had dis
co%e1 Cd these things
s. No.
Q. If you were out to catch him
ana protect yourself when YOU dis
covered this state of affairs. why did
! you leave the state and valley with
out making ii known?
A. Well. / had a book, they have
the book at the jail now, with line
drawn with every house on Broadway,
and the time would go 10 these places
! | had the time down and the money
marked and everything and | had 1t
where | had turned IN car, slips for
! driving on the streets and all that,
and S3.25, and | have had as high as
/ $50 was my grocery money where
was going to pay my grocery olll' ana
! | had that in there, and 1t stayed there
three or four davs and nothing ever
bothered it, and just before dinner |
put it in his box and ! came back.
went to get slip and my money was
| gone and all the books | had IN there,
and the first thing | thought of was
! him burning them up, and l goes to
the basket, the paper basket. and 1t
was sitting by the side of the stove
with this one book in it and that was
in the bottom of this waste basket, and
left it with these other books IN
there. and it had rubber on it and
it had hung on the bottom of the bas-
! ket and did not come out and looked
in the stove, and there was the paper
where it was burned. and after this
came up | heard they was going tel
watch me the night I got the $3.50
at the Riverside, and thought it was
the sheriff's office.
! Q. How did you hear it?
! A. The chief told me and then |
went over there and went in and she
paid me and | came out with the
money in this pocket rattling it. |
thought if it was the sheriff's office
they would come and arrest me, and
then l had the stuff could show them
and what | was doing and | come out
and nobody showed up, but why ] did
rot come the first time Rudy Elder
come in and paid the chief for protec
ton for the poker game in this room
right here
@. Do you know how much was
paid?
A. | could say something over two
hundred and fifty or three hundred
ollars he counted cut on the desk.
@. In the city hall?
A. Yes, sir.
| O. When was that?
A. That was just about two weeks
fter Kemp had told me he was going
20 get some of US deputies into it. and
knew Rudy was in the sheriff's Of
flee, he had been taking prisoners 20
san Quentin.
Q. Rudy had been taking prisoners
to San Quentin and he was running
this poker game?
A. Yes. And | seen him come in
and pay the chief and | says -
is the sheriff's office in this, what
have | got into; | cannot go and turn
it into the 'sheriff's office" and l laid
low, and before this the chief came to
me and told ME, he says Hyde they
are onto all this racket and he says
! the best thing you can do it to quit
md leave, don't let ne see you bacf:
|
no need of me quitting, and they will
know ! am the fall guy sure enough" ,"
and he says 'l want you to quit and
leave"
O. Did you ask him about who
burned those books?
A. | never said word.
@. Did you have tip that this raid
was going to come off on Saturday
lI"ht by Mr.. Hill?.
A. did
, q. Did YOU leave because Mr.. Hill
had ordered you to leave?
A. Yes, sir.
5 O. Where did you go?
A. | went to Tucson and | got off
there train there at Tucson. | was
running an engine there. firing for the
: S. T. and got let out because | would
not dead head on the caboose of 70
cars and | was going back there to
: work the 10th OF this month, and when
T got off there a man says "the sher-
ifs office is here looking for you"
and in the meantime when left / gave
/ Slaughter my address that if any
thing showed up here | wanted him
to wire me or write me Box "a Tue
son, Arizona. and | goes down and
told them where | was from, that a
little trouble | expected would be start
ed, and | wanted to wire the sheriff's
office where | would be, and he says
1--WE have a telegram here for you. !"
and he says you stay around and
} don't go away" and | gave him all my
money and stuff and stayed there in
the office in the Jail.
Q. Did you ever collect any money
from the Riverside rooming house
yourself?
), A. Yes, sir.
Q. From whom?
A. From Teddy and the landlady.
Continued Tomorrow