Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
CONLEYS PAID CASH
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| goods winch the SCdtc THRILLS ID Co'cA
ed in the various causes of action of
the Conley case. These. consisted of
| claims for horses, farming and road
implements, machinery, tools, a Ford
car and automobile tires.
One Of these claims was for four
horses purchased in 1917 for 500, an
other for a binder bought in 1918 for
$500, another for q lumber planer cost
ing $3.50. As to the latter, Colonel
| Nolan said there vas no need of such
| acknowledged the state owned the saw
mill for which the planer had been pur-
chased.
Judge O'Connor objected to the in
PRODUCTION of a claim Of March, 1915,
for an engine lathe, on the grounds
that it had been shown by the states
| evidence that this lathe is still in the
prison garage and machine shop.
"ChIcken Charley" Car Up Again
A bill of 1917 for $414 for a Ford
car was also objected to by Judge
O'Connor, who said the state had after
wards billed the insane asylum for e
half the cost of this car. This car, he
said. was afterwards known as the
Chicken Charlie, car.
Bills were then introduced by the
state, covering a period of several
years, for new automobile tires and
retreaded tires, the totals of the claims
being $2S1.76; $222.1O; $2O5.O5; $685.
80; and $461.17. Examination of this
witness was not concluded, he giving
way on the stand to permit Of the
examination of Harry Holland. under
sheriff of Powell county, who had been
called to s~ubstantiate the testimony
yivor hu nthor uvifn0ecoo po1otiuo IN The
alleged feeding of prison milk to hogs
owned by Conley.
Halt MIX Into SwIlI, Says
Holland said be had been a guard
under Warden Conley from 1910 until
1917 and during a part of that time
had inspected milk coming into the
it contained no co%ntraband. He said
that If 90 gallons of milk came in he
had seen as high as 30 gallons 60 out
in the swill, and that if so gallons
came in he had seen as much as 40
| gallons go into the swill.
When questioned as to other sup
plies going into the swin to be fed the
hogs, he said he had seen as much as
30 pounds of oatmeal put into the
swill and when asked about hominy,
he said that this class of food was
served about four TINES a saeek in
patches of about 100 pounds and that
almost all of this went into the swill.
Sunday Increased Bread Demands
Asked about bread sent out to the
lake ranch, he said that nearly every
Sunday afternoon q telephone call
would come in for 20 loaves and some
| times as much as 80 ~loaves, although at
| other times no more than five loaves
| would be sent OUT Upon being cross
examined by Colonel Nolan, he said
bread was sent to the lake whenever
| there was a picnic there. Upon being
pinned down, he said no one had ever
| told him the bread was for picnics, but
he had supposed it was for that pur-
pose. He would not say that the bread
was sent up for the use of convicts at
work getting out rock at the lake and
that he. himself, was in charge of a
bunch of nine convicts which was sta
toned at the lake for about a month
in the fall of 1912, getting out rock
for a building at the prison.
Was on MIX Shift
The witness said that during the
first five months he was employed at
the prison. he worked nights, then went
on the shift from 2 p. m. until 10 p. m,
where he worked for about a year. He
said he saw the milk then and that the
receipts varied from five to eight can
He did not see the transfer of milk to
the swill barrels while On this shift nor
| until he went on the morning shift in
November, 1912, but later corrected
himself and said he saw the milk de-
posted in the swill barrels when he
was off shift. He was in the Bear
mouth road camp for three months
and when he came back was put on the
morning shift, 8 a. m. until = p. N.
| He said he worked on this shift about
two years and had to look after the
incoming milk and the outgoing.
Did Not Report Waste
When asked by counsel for the de-
Tense if he had reported the waste Of
milk, he replied he had not, that Mr..
Hirst, deputy warden, was in charge of
. the kitchen, that he supposed it was
| the custom to dispose of the milk in
this way and it was all right with him.
He said a convict driving a mule to
a cart hauled the swill from the prison
to the hog pens, that he worked at this
| all day, made about five trips daily, but
he was unable to tell how many barrels
he hauled.
| He said he was fired by Conley early
in 1914 but about two months later
was taken back and was employed out
| side the prison for four months and
| then sent to Livingston in charge of a
| road camp, from which he was called
back by Conley in two months.
ConIey Discharged Him
When asked if he was brought back
from Livingston because the prisoners
would not work with him, he replied
that some of them would not work
with him.
He said he was then placed on duty
in one of the towers on the wall, where
he remained about two and a half
years, during which time he had moth
ing to do with the kitchen or dining
room, but could see the wagon hauling
swill from the kitchen.
He admitted he was then fired by
Mr.. Conley but insisted he bore no i'll
feeling towards Conley because of that
fact.
The witness said he then went to
Bismarck, n. D., where he was en-
ployed for several months as a guard
at the penitentiary.
Were you fired from there?" he
was asked.
mo, sir, / quit"
Weren't you fired for beating a
negro?"
negro"
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