Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-09
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the change. He was a two-gun man."
said Conley in referring to NJ. w.
Potter.
He said he went to the prison office
about $50 D.. m. and opened the safe
to which he only had the combination.
He said he took out his insurance
policies and personal papers and his
wife's jewelry and put them into q
~valise, in which he carried them home.
There we're some deposit slips belong
ing to prisoners which he turned over
to the bookkeeper. He told of also
removing from the office some pictures
he had bought. some he had won in
shooting tournaments, and some mount
ed game heads, Of taking them to his
house. Then, he said. he got the men
and went to the store to move stuff
belonging to himself and to McTague.
consisting of guns and ammunition,
paint in gallon cans, nails, harness,
collars, brides and saddles, ~pitchfork
Besides these articles, he said, there
was a photograph, a large tent and a
Delco lighting plant. He said he told
the guard, Ackley, to move all his
stuff and that they took nothing not
belonging to him. He said he after
wards sold the commissary supplies to
one Myhre, at Warm Springs.
Shows Blankets Loaned
number Of hunting blankets belonging
to himself, w%hereupon Attorney O'Con-
nor offered in evidence a receiving
book and called attention to an entry
in lead pencil upon the last page, cred
iting ConIey with 60 pair of blankets
loaned by him to the prison. The wit
ness said this was in the handwriting
of Sam Haas. He said these 60 blank
cts were retained by the state aud that
he took the 20 Farwell blankets in
their place.
Mr.. Conley branded as untrue the
testimony previously given by Foster.
the prison butcher, that ne had stopped
at the meat market the night of the
moving and ordered ham and bacon
sent to his home.
He likewise claimed to be untrue
the testimony of the states witnesses
as to supplies sent to the Lake ranch
at the time of the change in wardens.
He said he had put one of his "
out on the ranch the following
Tuesday and there were no supplies
there then. so he had to send out sup
piled the following day.
Conley also denied the states testi-
mony as to provisions sent to the
Walton ranch. The witness Curd had
told OF Occidental flour and two quar-
ters of beef going there. Conley said
the prison had never purchased Occi-
dental flour and it was unlikely that
two quarters OF beef would be sent
in April to a place where but one man
was maintained.
To show from whence had come the
found by the state in the
warehouse at the time the
inspection was made by Macdonald
time in July the defense intro
duced bills and Conley & McTague's
cancelled bank checks for large quanti-
cidental flour, canned goods, baking
matches and other supplies
to nearly $1,000. He said
provisions were all put in the
warehouse and distributed from
there.
Conley denied that a quarter of beef
and sacks of sugar had been taken to
his residence at the time Of the change
of quarters of beef being taken to
Mullan's residence. He said Mullan
had only a small place with no ice
box and no ice.
Says No Flour to Steal
Questioned by his own counsel as
TO the states testimony that Mullan
had hauled away about 80 sacks of
at the time of the change of
Conley said this was impos-
sible as he had ordered a car Of flour
and on April 10 was so nearly out of
flour that he planned to send to Warm
the following day to borrow
flour. However, he said, the car con-
1000 sacks of flour came in
the next day. About a week later
McFstridge came over from Helena
and took an inventory. finding go
of flour on hand. He said the
prison used about 81 sacks of flour
so there should have been no
shortage.
The matter of the states claim of
1914 for two automobiles purchased
BY the state was then brought up and
said one of the cars, known
Is the Chicken Charlie" car, is now
the scrap heap on the Bratton
he other. He explained this second
,ar BY showing by means of a bill of
sale and a bill of lading that he had
a Packard car for 5000 in Cali
'ornia at a time when he was shipping
lis own car and G. FL. Williams car
rack from the coast and learned he
,ould ship three for the same price as
.wo. He showed that he had paid
he freight on his own and the Will
ans car, and that the state had paid
he freight on the Packard, amount
ng to $s9.O5.
After it reached Deer Lodge the
tate architect, Lac Calman, wanted it
d place of the old Ford he was driv-
ng and Conley let him have it, the
tate in lieu Of the Packard buying q
lew Ford for $601 IN May, 1918.
1onley said he bought smother old !