Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-10
DOUBLE MILK
DEAL CHARGED
.70C0NLEYF|RM
Guard Says 8 to local
Ions a Day Sold Prison
Fed Warden 8 Hogs.
Clerk Swarthout Says
There Was NoAuthor-
ity to Use Supplies.
(Tribune's Helena Bureau)

| (Tribune's Helena Bureau)
Helena, May 9.--Feeding of refus'
milk from the state prison kitchens tt
| the hogs raised by former WardeI
Frauk Conley and later dressed int
pork which was sold back to the stat,
for consumption at the prison was Gov
cred generally in the evidence adducet
by the state Monday in its CASE
against Conley for the recovery oi
large amounts alleged to be due the
state In the operations of Mr.. Conley
IN the long period he managed the
penitentiary.
The state placed two witnesses upon
the stand, their principal testimony
having to do with the mixing with the
swill from the kitchen of milk which
had been delivered by Conley & Nc
Tague to the prison and was paid for
by the state at the rate of eight cents
per gallon.
Later in the day, some of the old
records of the board of prison com
missioners in the way of minutes of
the boards meetings, were produced
by the state and served as the basis
for an afternoon Of examination at the
hands of the defense. but from which
no evidence of material value to the
case was elected.
Two Convicts Tell Of Milk
r. J. Manley, a former convict who
acted as chauffeur for Warden Potter
for several months both before and
after his parole, testified to having
taken T. III. Macdonald and +. r.
Dodds in the car to the Mullan garage
at the time they were looking for
state-owned automobile. He said he
went inside the garage and saw four
cars there, two with truck bodies. one
q touring car and one Highway COM
mission car. He said the engine num-
bers had been removed from two of
them. the highway commission car
and Chicken Charles" car. He said
the latter was in very bad shape and
of not much value
Two witnesses, "Shorty" Fried,
guard, and Owen Toohey. former
were put on the stand by the
state for the purpose, as announced
by Attorney General Rankin, of
showing that large quantities of milk
bought by the state from Conley at
eight cents a gallon went into the
swill to feed the hogs from which Con-
ley afterwards sold pork to the state.
Moro Sold Than Needed, He Says
Fried, who testified that he was de-
,ailed to look after the convicts'
kitchen and dining room and who said
ne had to examine all the milk which
,ame into the prison to prevent con-
articles from being smuggled
nto the prison in that manner, and
likewise examined the outgoing swill
% prevent letters or other contra
'rand articles from being smuggled out
# the prison. said that from five to
line cans of milk came into the prison |
laily, the quantity depending upon the |
'eriod of the year. He said this was
eparated milk. and that there was |
considerable waste, as sometimes the |
milk was sour when it came in. some
ines it soured shortly after it reached |
he prison, and sometimes the convicts |
,ould not drink it.
He testified that he had seen as high |
S half a barrel, % gallons. of milk
brown into the swill barrels in
ay. but this happened not often, and
hat from seven to 10 gallons of milk
-ent into the swill daily. He said
lore milk was brought into the prison
han was used.
Four Convicts To Quart
Fried testified on cross examina-
on quart of milk sufficeN for four
,nvicts and that about $50 were fed
ally in the main dining room and 25
} 30 in the kitchen. He said that
lring the months of May. June and
lly, about 20 gallons of milk were
asted daily and that in the hot
Gather. when the milk spoiled easily, ,
was good for no other purpose than
feed the hogs. He thought about
70 and half barrels of swill was ,
mt out of the prison each day. II
Owen Toohey. who said he was a :
usty turnkey on the back gate during !
uch OF the time he was in the prison, !
I'd he had to open the gate when !
llk. meats. coal and other supplies !
me IN and that from six to nine
ms OF milk came in daily. He said
IS was al! separated milk, the same
was used in the guards kitchen.
One Waste, He Says
He also had to help in sending out
swill and that two or three bar
Is was sent out each morning and
I'm three to five barrels each noon. q
said there was usually a lot of r
Tx in each of the swill barrels and n
I'm the appearance he judged that e
out third of the milk sent into IN
prison came out with the swill. ic
ToOhey testified that he had been II
ut up from Silver Bow county, Oc-
'er IA. 1915, for manslaughter, for Il
term of nine to 10 years, that he p
$ eligible to parole in four and b
II years, but spent four years and m
e months in the prison, being ii
rolled July "a, 1921. He said Pot
got the parole for him but that he G
not made any affidavits in this
tier n,
When questioned as to the offense n
which he was convicted, and if fu
had killed man, witness replied: al
Well, l don't know If I did or not r.
was an accAent. There was q wom- 4,