Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-02
WOULD QUASI
PERJURY COUNT
AGAINST NOBLE
Motion Made by Attorneys to
Free Four to Be Passed
on Monday.

Whether Harvey Noble, Charles
Zuckerman, Alext Stuart and Martin
Ernest will face a trial jury on
charges of perjury will depend on the
outcome of a motion submitted IN ted
eral court Friday by Freeman, The
len & Frary, their attorneys, Tor
ouashing of the indictment returned
against them by a grand jury. The
defendants counsel holds that the in
dictment will not stand because each
defendant is accused of a distinct Of
fsnse in the same bill.
The motion was set for argument
next Monday and will be disposed OF
then unless postponement is taken
over Labor Day. Noble, Fucker
man. Stuart and Ernest are accused
of perjury in connection with testl-
mony given at the trial, last spring,
of Noble on a charge of unlawtully
transporting liquor. Noble was ac-
quilted, there figuring in the trial
testimony given by him and his pres
ent c~o-defendants which the govern
ment alleges to have been false.
Four Messengers Fined
With the opening of the federal
court term Friday, four employees Tor
the World Messenger service, now
claimed to be defunct, pleaded guilty
10 FlDldtIth VI Lht wv"
law and were each fined 500 by
Judge George NJ. Bourquin. The de-
PENDANTS were Carl Peterson. Robert
Fulton, Ike Colvin and Fred Bush;
Fulton and Peterson having been
once convicted on a similar charge.
Both were warned by the court that
another ~offense would bring a penal
ty more severe, but that on this oc-
casion all four defendants would be
punished alike.
A fine of So was assessed Jointly
against Earl Stewart and Alex Mon
roe of Browning upon their plea OF
guilty to a liquor charge. The prose
cution was brought under the Vol
stead act instead of the law relating
to possession of liquor on an Indian
reservation, and the court told the
defendants that had the latter enact
ment been invoked the penalty would
have been more severe. AS the story
of the offense was told, Stewart and
Monroe were with a party o. men
who were passing a bottle around
and when an officer appeared ar et-
for was made to empty the contents
ouor remained in the flask when Ii
was seized and Stewart and Monroe
were placed under arrest
Five Forfeit Bail
Lorenzo White, Owen Williams, {.
T.. Smith. Robert Lavalle n n. X.
Cobelle, all liquor defendants, forfeit
ed their bail by failing to appear for
~srraignment. Harry Volta, arrested
with W. E. Ralph last spring at Nlr-
pelle, denied the charge of transport
ing liquor. Ralph is alleged to have
shot at a federal officer at the time
of the arrests and will respond to
that charge during the present term
of court. G. A. Judson is attorne!
for Volta.
A. j. Super, A. L. McClanahan
and J. A. Sheperd, all of Billings,
pleaded guilty to a charge or trans
porting liquor and were given a JOINT
fine of $3.50, with costs. They were
arrested at Geraldine and their auto
mobile and it's cargo of liquor we're
confiscated by the court. Clarence
HYDE, accused of theft from a Great
Northern boxcar in Glacier county,
pleaded not guilty and will be tried
September Z. Joe Magee, an Indian,
denied that he stole merchandise
from a freight car, his case being set
for September 8.
William G~uardeppe, an Indian ac-
cused of grand larceny, pleaded not
guilty and was given until Septem-
Der Z to procure ar attorney. de Is
charged jointly with John Red FOX:
represented by l.. $. Irvine OF
Browning, who will also appear Tor
trial Sentember z.