The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-25

officer. The gang well knew this but
they wanted to soil him by making II
appear that he would sell his lntlu-
ence for money-they wanted the
moral effect on the public. Inc case
was a frameup from the very start.
O'GRADY A CHEATER
TAYLOR went on to say, "This man
O'Grady is a cheater and a short
changer and takes pride in the fact.
He never pays anything. de IS
probably the best specimen of a bull
con artist in Montana When the
league was organized, he joined II
and gave his postdated check, when
it reorganized he gave another and
when it reorganized again he gave an
other none of which he ever paid.
Bridget 0Grady was elected auditor
in the fall of 1918, and the candidates
paid into a campaign pot certain
sum each to reimburse the Producers
News for the money that it had ex-
pended, and while the O'Grady's vol
untered $780, they did not pay a
cent. When the money was raised
from the farmers to fight Bridget
O'Grady's contest, Jack put down his
name for S25 but he meyer paid it.
The contest was won by the money
that the farmers subscribed, and
the next election Bridget was made
Clerk & Recorder, and while the
other candidates paid their share Of
the election expenses, except Link,
Bridget O'Grady and Jack O'Grady
did not pay, although Jack presided
when the arrangements were made,
and volunteered 5000 as their share
of the expense. In the fall of 1922,
it was the same old story. The outfit
has even beat the Producers News
out of their subscription money for
the paper. In January, 1919, when
the Elgin Cafe attached Bridget's pay
check for her restaurant bill, being
unable to collect, Bridget came to
me cry ing and begged me to loan her
$4,000 till the end of the month when
she would turn over her warrant. |
let her have the money. but she did
not turn over her warrant, and she
has never paid me yet. At that time
l was getting $4,000 per month and
had a wife and a couple Of children to
keep. In the fall of 1920, Jack touch
ed Clair Stoner for a hundred dol
lars for couple of days; Stoner has
not gotten the money yet, besides he
has taken Up several bum checks
which Jack had peddled, which Jack
has never taken up, even though he
had been steady upon the pay roll as
well as has Bridget, and part of the
time the daughter, and in spite of
the fact that the records will show
that he stole three or four thousand
dollars from the farmers of the coun-
ty and stole his coal from the Jail
coal bin. Nearly every month Bird
get is short in her fee money. She
told me once that Jack stole it. On
several occasions Oscar Collins told
me that during the time he was in
the sheriffs Office he loaned the
O'Grady's enough to make good the
shortages and that they had hooked
him and hooked him good, and that
he had loaned O'Grady money to buy
seed grain and feed oats with and
that he had had the same luck col
lectlng as other people. In the sum-
mer OF 1922, in August, when Col
Inns needed some of the money
O'Grady owed him, for his campaign
for congress, O'Grady promised to
raise for him $500 to pay him, and
he went to the bank to see Mckee
and dickered with Mckee for several
days, when he came to my office and
told me that he had arranged to get
the money and asked me to come to
the bank to get it as he was going
to pay 1T over to me by arrangements
with Collins to be used in getting out
his publicity. When l arrived Nc
Kee refused to loan Jack the money
unless l signed the note with him,
as Jacks credit was no good. Well,
l signed, and Jack promised to pay
the note just as soon as he sold some
OF his fall crop. Jack never sold
any of his fall crop, l guess, because
he never paid this note Part of this
money was paid over to Oscar Col
Inns and the rest was used for post
age. In February when l was at the
regular session, Mckee sent the note
to me to be renewed | sent the
new note back to him with the IN
derstanding that OpGrady would sign
It. O'Grady did not sign the note.
Sometime in June, I jumped O'Grady
about this note. | asked him if he
was going to make me pay this too.
told him | would not stand for it4
and | would go to court with it. He
said | will attend to this note. / Will
pay it when the final settlement
money comes from the pool. Along
the latter part of June O'Gradv came
IN the office and asked me if I had
gotten the note / had signed with
him back, and l said no, how could
| get it back. Jack said | have paid
1t and as soon as Mckee gets It
back from the federal reserve bank. |
he will send it over to you. told
him to send it to you in order that
you will know that it has been taken
care of, seeing that your name is on
1t. About the first part of August
the note came to me, and a dav or
SO shortly after l received it. I met
w Mckee on the street, and he asked. |
Taylor, did you get the note I sent
0VerT | answered, yes, and went on.
| never heard a thing about the mat /
ter further, except O'Gradv asked |
me two or three times before I oot
the note whether I had gotten if or
not and wondered why Mckee was |
so slow with getting it from below
until finally when it arrived. I fold I