Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-03
N company with Verne Potter, son Of

the warden.
Witness admitted on questioning
that he had attended a dance in Deer
Lodge without permission from the
warden. Asked If he remembered hav-
ing his picture taken one sunny day
while he was talking to q couple OF
girls on a street corner in Deer
| get his picture. When asked who tried
to get his picture, he replied:
Mr.. Campbell, of the Independent"
Did you 60 every place you wanted
: under Mr.. Conley- and did you attend
any dances then?'
Left State; Way Paid Back
"No," he replied, II didn't have
time"
The witness said his sentence was
reduced ip August, 1921, and he was
paroled Sept. 9, 1921, after which he
went to work for Warden Potter until
late in December when he left for
Wyoming, going out of the state with
out authority and coming back here
from Glen Rock, Wyo., under a sub
poena from the state.
WHO paid your transportation to
the state line?" he was asked.
Mr.. Macdonald sent me transpor-
tation, a slip with which l got a
ticket" he replied.
He testified he came to Helena Aug.
the capitol, that he had been to see
Macdonald several times since in com
pany with other fellows and to get
money for which Macdonald gave him
orders upon A. e. McFatridge, clerk
of the board of examiners.
You knew it was against the law
to leave the state under parole" he
was asked.
II supposed it was all right" replied
the witness, when other fellows went
out of the state. / did not know I
was breaking my parole. | sent a re
port card back every month"
ConIey Kept Cars With States
DO you mean to say Potter knew
you had broken your parole and had
left the state?"
mo, / didn't report to him. I re-
ported to MIR. Swarthout, clerk of the
prison board"
The witness told counsel for the de-
Tense that Conley had three Cadillacs
and three Packards in the same garage
with the prison Fords. but that part
of the time he kept two of the Cadil-
laos In his W garage. He also kept
tools for repairing these cars and cas-
ings for these types of cars in the
garage. Asked if he knew that Conley
owned these automobiles, he said he
understood such was the case.
Asked if he did not know the other
things in the garage belonged TO Con-
ley, he replied he did not know to
whom they belonged, but admitted he
knew the cars stored there were used
on state work.
Saw Tires. Then Didn't
As to the new tires in the warehouse
storeroom, he said he did not know
when they were moved, only that he
had seen them there and afterwards
they were gone. He did not know that
it was generally understood these new
tires belonged to the highway commits
sion.
The witness said he had seen Roy
Martin, the colored affidavit maker,
around about the time the garage ma
chinery was moved, as he tool care of
the furnace. but he could not say
Martin helped move anything.
Story Of a Little Machine Shop
Arthur Wagner. superintendent of
power at the prison, was called by the
state and testified that there was a
little machine shop inside the walls in
February, 1917, when he went to work
there, but that on account of lack of
space it was moved outside the walls
and developed. He said the machinery
moved out consisted of two lathes, a
power drill. and an emery wheel. to-
gether with the shafting and betting
necessary to run 1t. He said he saw
some of this machinery in Mr.. Conley's
warehouse at the time the judge was
over there inspecting the premises.
On cross-examination. the witness
admitted that the big lathe was still
in the prison garage and that the little
lathe, which was moved away, looked
to have been home made and that one
Wilson had told him he had made the
lathe. He did not know If this ma
chinery had originally come from Mr..
Conley's laundry.
He admitted that he was not really
friendly with Mr.. Conley and that both
he and Mr.. Conley were rather in
different"
Ike Cohen. a convict who has been
o the stand several times, testified
to having assisted In hauling from the
prison garage several pieces of ma
q hack saw, a small lathe, sand paper
small motor. together with a quantity
of inner tubes for automobiles. Frank
Whitlock testified that he had assisted
one Fred Wilson in making the hack
saw in 1920 and that part Of the ma
terial used was obtained from the
Milwaukee railway shops on a prison
requisition. He testified that other
pieces of machinery were constructed
partly OF iron obtained from a scrap
heap back of the shop.