Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
CON[EY GIVES
BRICK FIGURES
ABOVE CHARGE
Defendants List for
More Than Alleged
Shortage Presented.

Helena, June 1O-For the purpose Of
meeting the states claim OF 5,694,240
brick which it alleges Frank Conley
has failed to account for in his man
agement of the prison brick yard while
warden of the state penitentiary, Con-
ley. on the stand Saturday in defense
of the suit brought against him by the
state, presented figures for a total of
6. 764. 900 brick which he testified had
not been included in the figures pre-
viously presented by the states prin-
which he held would more than offset
the shortage claimed by the state.
This came up in his examination
which the state demands an accounting
for 5,694, ,240 brick of the estimated
value of $50. 942. 40, and for a judgment
Of S4.O72.0S upon the grounds that
Conley sold to Conley & McTagus
1920 brick at 81 per thousand.
whereas this brick was worth $13 per
thousand.
The witness, under examination by
Attorney j. F. O'Connor for the de-
tense, read list of buildings into
which prison made brick had been in
ccrporated and other disposals of brick
which he said was in addition to the
quantities testified to by Miss Rath-
bun, assistant to the state accountant,
as having been shown to have been
disposed of by the records and delivery
receipt stubs retained at the prison
brick yard, agregating about 5000, 900.
The additional list as read by the
witness, was as follows:
Warm Springs asylum, 105. 900: cell
house No. 1, $4,000: prison theater
1GS 00a0.
shop. 10000; outside boiler room and
stack, 10000; store room. 103, 1000;
garage and machine shop, los, 900: cold
storage plant, 107 900; prison office,
1O4. 600; highway commission buildings
and on state ranch, 21S,0OO: bunk
house and dining room. 10000; barn
and addition. $4,000: brick yard con-
struction, 1908, 900; on hand in kilns
at time Of change of administration.
100000: creamery boiler room and
stack, 10000: Brown clothes room and
ice house. $4,000: turned over to John
Berne. 10000; to Conley & McTague,
100000: Walton ranch buildings, 17S,-
900. and 10 per cent allowance for
breakage, $4,000.
Total. 6,764.O0O.
Thinks List Not Covered
The witness said he did not think any
of the brick he had enumerated had
been covered in the list presented by
Miss Rathbun. He was under cross
examination as to his list when court
adjourned for the day and Attorney
General Rankin will complete the
cross examination Monday.
AS to the quantities of brick includ-
ed in the buildings enumerated by him
he said they had been obtained by him
from Mr. MacCalman, state architect at
the prison and Warm Springs, who had
obtained them through measurements
of the buildings within the past %
days.
Through the witness bundle of
was entered as exhibits.
showing buildings at the prison, insane
asylum and tuberculosis hospital In
which prison made brick. artificial
stone made at the prison and lumber
sawed at the prison sawmill had been
used.
These included cell house No. 1. cen
house No. 2, store room and cold stor-
age, guards kitchen and dining room,
c0nvicts' kitchen and dining room, pris-,
on warehouse. garage and brown
clothes house, prison brick yard, power
house and stack, theater. stable and
loafing shack and office, all at thei
prison; garage, kitchen and employees
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