, 1924-03-05
MUCKL.OW NOT GUlL-TY0F
STEALING COW and BR!NDLED
Steer FROM JOSEPH ANGUET
Everybody Knew Bossy-Had a Ring Around Her
Eye and Was "Breechy'-Tria] Had
,. No Dull Moments

There probably never was n COW
that was known and beloved by so
many people as the COW which figured
in the case of the State against Mike
Mucklow and which ended on Satur-
day with a verdict of not guilty on
the second ballot.
This COW with the wide circle of ac-
quaintances, is worth about $40 and
it cost the county S519.30 in witness
fee alone to settle her ownership, one
States witness being brought from
Fort Bliss, Texas, by Mr.. Goppert,
the prosecuting attorney. The state
called 81 witnesses while as many or
more appeared for the defense.
Most of Powell and all the Pat
O'Hara country were present when
France and England went to war, as
it were, over the COW and "A brindled
steer claimed by Joe Ganguet of the
Two Dot. The trial lasted from
Thursday until Saturday, and there
were few dull moments.
Nike Mucklow, who is a stockman
and rancher, a likable person and
popular with his neighbors, was
charged last year with appropriating
a cow belonging to Ganguet and
Barth and was found guilty. He OBJ
tanned a new trial and the additional
charge of taking the brindled steer
was brought against him. His friends
contributed toward the expenses of
the new trial and II. c. Bronze, of
Basin, was retained to represent him.
1t developed during the trial that
all the a Dor so witnesses knew the
COW with the ring around her eye
with varying degrees of intimacy,
shading from a mere speaking ac-
|quaintance to n feeling hat was like
n child for is mother, or vica versa.
The plaintiff and his daughter, Lea,
knew the COW as well as if she were n
member of the family, while Paul
Haratyk had acted as nurse girl at
the critical time when us a calf she
was being weaned from her mother at
the Two Dot ranch on Pat O'Hara. ,
John Kirkpatrick, Jesse Lowe,
Louis Lowe and others had a bowling
acquaintance from seeing her on her
summer range in Pat O'Hara basin.
They knew her by the ring around her
eye and recognized her as the prop
erty of Joe Ganguet.
The state called the following i'm
posing array of witnesses for one our
pose or another: Fred Beismeier, G..
c. Dillavou, J. +. Bowling, Orlando
Loftsgarden, Joseph Ganguet, Lea
Ganguet, Louis Lowe, Jessie Lowe,
Clarence Nay, II. A. Richardson, AL
len Richardson, c. A. Davis, ODER
rtAga Darn,r rrA,lnr rVtt.f CL,ap,,l
err, Paul Haratyk, Clyde Bell, Bert
Mecklinberg, Allie Towsley, Chas.
Phillips and Ed. Brown.
When it looked as if the COW could
not possibly belong to anybody but
Joe Ganguet, the defense started in To
prove that the COW must have had a
twin and intimated hat the person
who should really be on trial for
grand larceny was Curt Shoemaker
who had sworn that he bought the
brindled steer with a b on it, jaw at
the Mucklow auction.
Glen Sheets, the Powell butcher,
who looked like Fatty ArbuckIc's
little brother, was the first witness.
He sat bolt upright, his eyes popping,
and sweating like the proverbiul Afr
can at election, but sticking atoutlv
to his story that the three steers sold
in n bunch ut the close Of the sale
were two reds and a Holstein and that
thee was nothing remotely c7cmbliuF
a brindle among them.
Then came Bert Mccklinhcrg who
srid he was a cowboy and picked up
the brindlci steer outside the MUCK.
low place and drove il with other Co.,
the home OF Curt Shoemaker. He WA
30 scared that he called counsel Tor
the defense, eyes, ma'am' and h.
face had the expression OF a person 800
the water who suddenly finds he can
not touch bottom. His face was an"
color Of his red shirt md he had tu
swallow his Adams apple before
answering, but no amount Of bullying
from the prosecuting attorney could
wiring from him amy admission con
flictng with his first testimony Tho
steer had horns when he first turned
il in with Curt Shoemaker and ~
WIS dchorned there n day or tw"
later. The Precipitation stood out on
him under cross-o examination but he
planted his feet like a balky mule ni
a crossing and nothing could bulge
him.
At one point when the judge sn.'.
collection sustained" Bert thought
Il was over and was u third of the
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