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inventories of prison goods always
checked out he never had occasion to
investigate the goods belonging to Con-
ley.
Under cross-examination he said be
visited the prison every three months
furnished the prison said he was not
positive that he had ever heard Conley
was to sell pork below the market
price, nor could be recall if he ever
audited any bills from Conley for pork.
HIrst at Pen Is Years
Tom aHirst, postmaster at Deer
Lodge, was examined by Attorney
OConnor. He said he had been at
Deer Lodge SO years and was connect
ed with the prison 26 years. first as a
then as deputy warden for from IL to
10 years. He said he voluntarily left
the prison at the time Conley was re-
lieved as warden. As deputy warden
he said he was in charge inside the
walls looking after the cell houses,
seeing that they were kept orderly and
clean, that there was no waste and
that discipline was maintained.
He visited the dining room for five
or 10 minutes before each meal to see
that the food was properly prepared
and placed for the prisoners, and as to
the serving of excessive or unsatis-
factory portions of food testified that
no excessive quantities Of milk were
served, he having to order extra milk
two or three times a week; that he
never found any substantial portions
of oatmeal or any other foods left by
the convicts; that new prisoners would
not eat hominy until they became ac-
customed to it but that he older pris-
oners demanded it and usually ATE what
the new men would not consume; that
his instructions were to give all the
good. wholesome food the prisoners
could eat but to allow no waste; that
the cook was directed to increase or
decrease the quantities as conditions
required. and that naturally there
would always be some portions OF the
food left over and wasted.
DIscredits Witness Dean
He said that no spoiled meat had
ever been served in the dining room
and that the convict Dean who had
testified to the cooking of spoiled meat.
had worked in the kitchen but mostly
In the bakery and never had anything
to do with the cooking of the meats.
As to the milk supply he said about
half was whole milk and half skinned
milk, the whole milk being served to
the hospital and diet patients. who
usually averaged about % persons.
Hirst made q positive statement that
not a drop of milk went into the swill.
not even soured milk. He said it was
the custom to use all of the sour milk
in the making of cottage cheese. which
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during the warm seasons.
Under cross-examination Hirst said
there was but one swiIl barrel inside
the walls. which he saw two or three
times a day, and thought it contained
on an average of 20 gallons per day.
He thought there might have been two
swill barrels outside the prison; that
from 80 to 60 gallons of milk came
into the prison daily; and that it usual
ly took the prisoners about a year to
get accustomed to the eating of hom-
my. About 40 per cent of the prison
ers were in the penitentiary under one
year. he said.
Hirst was questioned as to the OBJ
tanning of supplies from outside the
prison for use in fitting up a machine
shop inside the prison walls for the
use of the convict, Wilson, and said he
putaiJcu tNp pieces VI cuiiAluE. IINt
pulleys and two pieces of betting which
belonged to John Berne and which he
was permitted to use. He said this
equipment was afterwards moved out
side the prison walls and he believed it
went into the outside machine shop
where Wilson worked.
Denies Convict Testimony
J. n. Dubie testified that he was
ar,pInro1 oc SrnortntanAonS ~ the |
prison plant at the prison from April.
1920, until October II, 1921. being
under both Warden Conley and Ward
en- NJ. W. Potter. He said that during
about three months of the winter. when
the brick plant was not in operation.
he worked as an outside guard from
6 a, m. to 2 p. m. and from 5 to 6 p. m.
each day. He said that as an outside
guard he was in charge of the truck
drivers. that no trucks were driven to
the Lake place during his shift OF
was driven to the lake by either ellis
or Doyle. as testified.
He said that Pearson drove a truck
to the Walton ranch each day because
he had to haul the convict laborers
back and forth. but that he did not
know of any large quantities of beef or
flour being taken to that ranch other
than the regular rations for about IA
men.
Dubie told of the moving from the
warehouse of a quantity of
.ormy flour and the cleaning out of the
between April 1 and 10,
1921, this being done to make room for
a car of flour which arrived on April
10, containing 1000 sacks. He testi-
fled that at the time OF first cleaning
the warehouse. about April 1. there
was not TO exceed % sacks of flour
left in the warehouse, hardly more
than enough to supply the prison for
one week, as Is sacks were weekly
inside the walls. He said
that on the morning the car of flour
Mr.. Conley told him if the
flour did not come in that day he would
have to send a truck TO the insane
asylum to get some flour he had ar
ranged to borrow from DR.. Seauland.
Dubie was questioned at some length
regarding the movement of other arti-
lies from the prison but added no
light upon these subjects. which had
generally covered by previous
witnesses.
Gives Lie to Whitlock
To impeach the testimony of the
Frank Whitlock, that Mrs.
Conley had used automobiles during the
second week in November, 1920, DR..
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