Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-15

who gave him the money with which
to buy the opium, he replied:
Mr.. Potter and Governor Dixon.
Dixon met me one time coming down
to the store and he asked men how
was feeling and ! said / was feeling
pretty bad; that i was weak and he
said: Here, take this money
After reading the affidavit filed by
Colonel Nolan with the board, Governor
Dixon issued statement as follows:
Governors Statement
Il have been expecting something
like this for some time. If the present
affidavit was signed by the same Roy
Martin who made the original affidavit
last May. of course. it discredits the
value of his individual evidence How
ever, the statements made in his orig
inal affidavit are corroborated by many
other witnesses. The present affidavit,
alleged to have been made by him in
that his first affidavit was made in
May before Warden Potter, T. II. Mae
Donald and myself. As a matter OF
fact, | did not even see Potter or Mac
Donald at the time the statement was
made by Martin. Mr.. Macdonald was
in kalispell and had no connection with,
the prison investigation at the time am!
for more than month afterwards.
Martins statement was made a my Of
flee in the presence of Major McFat-
ridge and Miss Mcmillan, my stcno-
grapher
The statement in the new affidavit,
which Mr.. Conley's attorneys say Mar
tin made to the effect that / gave him
money or any other thing, IS not true.
l never heard of Martin before be came
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for parole under the law on April
IA. three days before Warden Potter
took charge of the penitentiary while
j. j. Ryan was clerk to the board Of.
prison commissioners. Martin wrote
me from Portland on December 6 as
follows:
Martins Letters
Portland. Ore. Dee 6. 1921.
Hon. J. II. Dixon.
Governor of the State of Mont.
Dear Sir-I. Roy Martin, your
witness in the case against former
Warden Frank Conley of the III. s. p
| was reading the charges of fraudu-
lent in the Missoulian and thought it
was time for me to get in communica-
tion with you. Now, I'll come when
you want me at any time.
Yours Respectfully,
"tSigned) Roy Martin. 10o1s n. 9Th
Il do not recall having replied to
his letter.
"On December seventeenth, he wrote
Warden Potter from Portland saying
that J. ]. Ryan, the former clerk to
the board. had been in Portland to
interview him and told him that Con-
leys attorneys were going to get him
into trouble and threatened him with
ten years in the state prison. In his
letter to Warden Potter, he also stat
ed that William Gillis, former con-
vict at the state prison, and who was
in charge of the commissary. had, on
the night the alleged looting took
place, also visited him in Portland as
the agent of Mr.. Conley. This man
day before Warden Potter took charge.
The letter from Roy Martin to War
den Potter follows:
Portland. Ore. Dee. II. 1921.
Mr.. Nj. W. Potter,
"Dear Sir-I, Roy Martin. once an
inmate in the NJ s. T. and witness for
the state of Montana in the case
against former Warden Frank Con-
Portland. Oregon, and I win come
whenever you or the governor Of the
state wants me.
s.'Now, Mr.. Potter, have been con-
fronted by two people here. one Mr..
]. ]. Ryan and Mr.. William Gillis, for
mer storekeeper and ex-convict from
Deer Lodge, Montana. Their busi-
ness here in Portland do not know,
but it must be to get me to make other
affidavits, concerning the case Of Mr.
Conley and l did refuse to make any
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two. Mr.. ]. Ryan said that you
people ttere are going to- bring ~
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