Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-28

frusty. and is it possible that / am
going to be kept in and miss my pa
role?' I said: I don't know but per
haps you will eventually come out all
right. and afterwards when j was
talking to him he said: I want to see
Potter, the warden. # 1 have to make
| a false statement to get out / am ready
TO 90 It. l am ready to do something
of that kind to get out He said /
want out told Potter the next morn
ing that Pierson wanted to see him.
view, and / think he made some other
statement different from the one first
made by him, and in a short time af-
ter that he was put outside as trusty.
Pierson was dicharged on parole. I
don't know where he is now. There
was another man by the name of Mar
gelin. He is the fellow who got killed
in Spokane.
Talks With MargeIIn
About fifteen or twenty days be-
fore he was killed in Spokane-that
was last year-Margelin came to the
office. | saw him in the office.
said to him: What are you doing
here, Margelin?' He said: i
want to. see Potter Well / said,
just wait few minutes and you will
have a chance to go into see him
rms conversation was had with him
IN the outside office in connection with
the count that I was making. 1 just
pushed the door open, and Margelin was
in there with Mr. Potter. I heard Pot
ter say: 1 will give you one hundred
and fifty or two hundred I didn't
catch it exactly right, but Marrelin
put something in his pocket. I wouldn't
say that he put money in his pocket.
but he put something in his pocket and
then he came outside. / met Margeliu
afterwards and I said: What are you
going to do now?' This was the same
day: Margelin said: I am going to
Spokane to get an affidavit from Mr..
Giilies 81 les, tor Pm, Mr.. Potter ! said; How
davit?' He said: 7 will make him
make one l said: He is a pretty
tough man if you 80 at him in that
way. Well he said, Potter has giv
en- me one hundred and fifty dollars to
pay my expenses and I will fix him TO
make the affidavit
Reads of Death
The next thing that heard of Mr.
gelin was that l saw in the paper that
he was killed. At the time that was
talking to him said: You are fixing
to get yourself killed. AIargelin was =
tough. hard man himself and I knew
the other fellow was tough one, and
that was how / came to say 'You are
fixing to get yourself killed
When Macdonald came over here.
this was after McFatridge was there,
they proceeded in the same way with
listing the men. Mr.. Macdonald
would come in and ask for these men
and We would send out and get from
three to seven men at time at the
outside. and they would be brought
from the outside to the inside office.
We had seven or eight chairs set there
a purpose for that, and they would
sit there and wait until they would
be called into the inside room. While
they were. sitting there they would be
talking about the investigation them
selves They would be there for two
or three hours. starting in in the
morning and then at neon they would
be taken away and brought back at
one. They would be talking amoug
themselves, and l heard quite num-
Der of them say: If man has got
to make some kind of an affidavit I'M
der the new administration to get out,
we win 60 after it.
Shows Prisoners Records
"That was the general talk among,
the fellows, We, want to get out I'M
one particular instance MacDonaMl
asked me about man by the namsj
Of NJ. J. Meaney, who was making q
statement. asked him Are you
going to talA this mans statement !.
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