Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-13

ured that SIX quarters or beef wer(
, used in the prison weekly and that, al
told. about 48 quarters Of spoiled bee
had been sent in during those two o.
| three months.
Asked il he had reported the matte,
| Of the spoiled beef, he replied that b.
had not, but hat all the guards around
there knew about it.
An effort was made by the defense
to bring out that, possibly, this BAG
beef had been used in 1921, unde,
Warden Potter, when it was suggested
the cold storage plant was out Of order
but he insisted that the bad beef hat
been used in 1920, although there was
June, 1921. He also admitted tina,
meat was taken away from the conyicts
entirely for eight days in 1921.
Ten Year Termer Tells Of Milk
The witness, in response to questions
said he had come from Deer Lodge to
Helena in company with Guy l.. Greg
DRY, another convict, without any offic-
ial escort, but that he was being &C.
companied around Helena by Warner
Fried, a prison guard, who is here also
as a witness.
Guy L. Gregory, 35. who testified
that he had been sent up from Phil
lips county in June, 1919, to serve
from 10 to 20 years for murder, tes-
tilted briefly upon direct examination
that he worked in the prison dining
room for about 10 months and that
probably 10 to ID gallons of milk from
the dining room was daily put into the
swill.
Under cross-examination, conducted
by Judge O'Connor, he said he was
made a trusty by Warden Potter July
6. 1921, that Potter first asked him
about working in the dining room and
handling the milk and then Sent him
over here to see Macdonald. He said
his conversation with Potter had not
taken place until might before last
Convicts Wouldn't Eat Oatmeal
In response to questions by the de-
Tense counsel, he said he was put in
the dining room in 1920 as waiter and
helper and he handled the milk as il
came from the kitchen in the elevator.
He poured the milk into three-gallon
buckets, one of which went to each
waiter for serving 80 men. He said
the milk left in the pans by the con
victs was put into the swill cans and
that most of the oatmeal served for
breakfasts went into the swill as the
men would not eat it.
Did the men complaint" he was
asked.
Yes"
Did you report it to Mr.. Conley?"
did any of the men eat any of the
oatmeal?"
"Not many"
Asked how the refuse from the table
was taken out of the dining room, he
replied that it was carried out by the
walters, about six five-gallon buckets
full after each meal.
He testified he had worked in the
dining room under Mr.. Conley about
10 months and he had never seen any
milk other than from the dining room
put into the swill barrel. He was then
questioned at length regarding the kind
and quantities of food served to the
convicts for dinner and supper.
Got Car Of Spoiled Meat, He Said
Another story of tainted beef was
related by Frank Whitlock, a convict
who has been on the stand several
times, and who was recalled by the
state TO tell that in September or
October. 1919. he WAS directed to assist
in unloading a car of beef and to place
it in the cold storage plant at the
prison. he said this meat was packed
in boxes. that it was spoiled and the
odor made him sick. He said he told
CoDley about it and that Conley said:
Put it in the cold storage: II we
can't use it. it will make hog feed"
Fed Five Loads meat to Hogs
The witness said he afterwards haul
cd four or five truckloads Of the meaf
out to the hogs.
Under cross-examination, the wit
ness said the meat came in a car bear
ing the name of the Hansen Packing
company, that some of it was after
wards served on the table in the dining
room outside, but the men could not
eat it, as the odor made them sick. He
said he had never told Investigator
Macdonald about 1t until yesterday"
at which time he had also told Lyndes
about it.
". A. Wolf, a dairyman Of Deer
Lodge, who had testified on Thursday
as to having made an offer of 81. 900
a year for the swill from the prison,
was placed under gross examination
and questioned as TO his experience
with feeding hogs. the price at which
he had sold dressed hogs in recent
years and as to how he expected to
make any money on hogs after paying
$1,000 a year for the swill.
Says ConIey Ordered State Car Taken
W. A. Logan, deputy state auditor,
was again on the stand introducing
claims for automobile tires sold the
prison and for freight on logs hauled
to the prison saw mill. He said he did