Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-10

ing for trouble" was the answer of
the witness.
did you really think that Potter
might give trouble"
Eyes, / think SO yet. / think he will
get in trouble the way he is shooting
his mouth off about Deer Lodge
people; it is not me alone, but it is
everybody in Deer Lodge"
"You were fearful that there would
be trouble if you didn't get this stuff
out?"
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eff you didn't speak to a man for
20 years, and if that man were ap-
pointed to take your place, you would
take your stuff out of there, wouldn't
you. just the same as I did," replied
Conley. "You just put yourself in my
place. l am not looking for trouble.
never looked for trouble in my life"
Mr.. Rankin then switched to the
mater of the farming machinery for
which the state had paid and asked
Conley if he had ever told anybody the
machinery was there and the state
could have it.
He replied that he had told Sauls,
chief deputy warden, about it on two
occasions.
Asked if he had told Macdonald along
in July that he had taken this machinery
for replacements he replied that he
had not done so but that he had told
Macdonald he ought to take it for that
reason. He said he had never told Mac
Donald he would not turn this ma
chinery over to the state but that to
the contrary he had shown the binder
and some other stuff to Macdonald
and told him he could take it and that
MacDonald's W evidence showed that
he had fixed a date upon which to take
it over.
did you aver take some % rim fire
ammunition" asked the attorney gen.
eral.
Appropriated No Ammunition
Yes answered Conley, Il took one
case. which | had paid for. The state
had paid for a lot of this ammunition
as every guard on the walls was re-
duired to fire 200 shots a week"
The attorney general proceeded II
quiz the witness regarding the moving
from the prisO nstore at the time of
the change of wardens of a number of
sheep-lined coats.
Conley replied that no such coats
were moved from the store. but that
there were 10 such coats in his own
garage which he had loaned on two &C.
casions to parties of visitors who had
been in Deer Lodge and who had left
by automobile, one party including
Franklin II. Roosevelt. democratic
candidate for vice president in 1920,
and one including j. Bruce Kremer,
democratic national committeeman,
and which had been sent back by ex-
press.
He said he called these democratic
coats and that he had sent them back
to the prison store on the Sunday
morning that Potter took charge Of the
prison.
In view of Mr.. Conley's statement
that he had never purchased Occident
flour for the prison, the state produced
a bill in favor of the Northern Pacific
railway dated August %, 1920. for
S157.50 for 5000 pounds of flour, and
asked what it was.
flour that had been shipped in a a
been refused by the consignee and the
Northern Pacific asked him if he
would take it.
Mr.. Rankin wanted to know if this
was not Occident flour, and Coniey re-
piled he did not know.
He was then shown a bill against the
Gem Grocery company for 40 ~49-pound
sacks of Occident flour and 40 Al
pound sacks of the same. and asked if
this was not the same flour.
The witness replied he did not know,
but it was a small amount and would
have , been used up in a short time.
He said Occident flour was toe ex-
pensive to furnish for prison use and
he did not remember having bought
any of that brand.
Counsel for the defense said that
if this line Of evidence was to support