The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-01-15

lace and Judge Olson knew this war
rant was issued. But Brown was i'm
mediateIy notified of the fact, and
panic stricken he was taken By Lang
in a car, fed from PlentywOOd and
Sheridan county.
1t is believed that Justice Olson in
formed Brown that the warrant had
been issued for him. Olson stOutly de-
nies this but subsequent events seem
to justify the conclusion.
According to a story inspired by
Brown, and his friends, appearing IN
the Wolf Point Herald, Brown and
Lang fed to Sheriff AndersOn's farm
near FrOid, and that Anderson prom
ised Brown his protection: that An
dersOn advised Brown that the Sher-
iff of Sheridan county had no jurls-
dictiOn in Roosevelt county and that
he need not submit to arrest: that he,
Anderson, would support Brown IN
that policy. The same paper says
that Brown claimed he had important
afidavits on his person, at the time
the warrants was issued. incriminat-
ing Sheriff Salisbury and County At
tOrney Erickson, which these officials
wished to secure to destroy and that
he was trying to get away with them.
Of course this excuse is the weak
est sort of piffle and is only used Tor
propaganda purposes. Brown could
have turned the affidaVits over to his
friends in this county who would have
mailed them on the afternoon tram
to whoever might have been interested
in them. He was bound to be able
tO get bail in a few hours and would
have been free to have proceeded
with lbs work if it had been legal.
He did not need to fee like scared
rabbit if his work here had been le-
climate. But Brown knew that ne
was engaged in a criminal work
that he was trying to procure peO-
ME TO commit perjury and being con,
sciOus of his guilt and being pursued
nv guilty conscience and being tun-
damentalIy a yellow, cOwardly cur, ne
fled like a cur.
The world knows about the efforts
to apprehend Brown and his assault
upon Undersheriff StOner with a
deadly weapon at Poplar, the act of
a criminal and a coward, in resisting
arrest and his final arrest.
On the way down to Poplar to get
Brown who had been turned over by
Under-Sheriff StOner to the Chief o.
Police of Poplar and one of Sheriff
AndersOn's deputies, Sheriff Salisbury
stODUed to see Sheriff Anderson at
his ranch and asked the Roosevelt
county sheriff to go with him to Pop
lar to get Brown. Anderson declined,
saving, "YOu have jurisdiction in this
county, take your man back, it's al
right with me-" Salisbury said, This
is your county, John, and | want to
treat you with the proper courtesy"
John Anderson, no doubt, knew at
that moment that Brown was on
the way with his deputy from Poplar
to his farm.
On the way across the reservation
to POpIar to Join StOner to get Brown
to bring him to PlentywoOd, Salisbury
passed a car. Arriving he found that
Brown had been taken to Anderson ;
farm. He and StOner returned to
AndersOn's farm, arriving there al
five o'clock in the morning. Ander-
son made a fuss because they came
so early in the morning and disturb
ed his peaceful slumbers. Salisbury
asked for Brown and the warrant
which had been turned over to him
Brown begged Anderson pitifuily
not to turn him over TO Salisbury.
saving 81 am in your protection,
while he cringed and crawled under
the covers to hide away from the
Sheridan County Sheriff. Anderson
refused to turn Brown over saying
that he would bring him to Plenty.
wood Immediately after breakfast
This was unnecessary as Salisbury
was on his way to PlentywOd and
Anderson must make the trip up.
In the middle of the might, aftea
Lang had returned from his flight
with Brown, a party composed OF
Lang and others, got Judge Olson out
Of bed about midnight and had him
telephone to Medicine Lake TO see ii
the sheriff had passed through town
with Brown. Also immediate arrange
ments were made for bonds in order
that Brown might be taken at once
before Olson and released. In order
to get bonds a call was sen to SEQ.
hey, Antelope and other places, but
Brown did not arrive and his local
henchmen went to bed.
Anderson arrived in PlentvwOOC
with Brown after dark and took him
to Onstad and Greer's office. which
attorneys had been retained bv At.
tOrney General FOOte bv wire to de.
fend Brown, it is said, where Judge
Olson was called and there filed q
demurrer to the complaint, and Brown
was turned loose. The bonds had al.
ready been prepared. Sheriff Sails,
bury and County Attorney Erickson
were not notified though both have
phones and Deputy Sheriff Gallagher
was in the sheriff's Office at the time
waiting Browns arrival. Anderson
and Brown Immediately fed from
PlentywOd as if pursued. No date
was set for hearing the demurrer
Lang and Zeidler and Endfeld of An
telOpe signed the bonds.
Brown then gave to the press Z
story which appeared in the Helena
RecOrd-Herald and the Great Falls
Tribune, and other local papers, t.
the effect that when he, Brown, ap
I peared for arraignment, the case de
faulted as the Sheridan county off
GERS did not appear, insinuating thai
because of this he had been turned
/ loose.
Browns excuse for resisting ar
rest was that he was protecting Ger
tain afidavits that he had on his per
son which he asserted the Sheridan
county officials wanted to secure By
arresting him and to destroy. tt
back up this idea he gave out The
above false story to the press, try
ing to make it appear that the off
GERS being unable to get the affidavits
were willing to drop the case against
him which was a pure frame-up.
This was the most obvious tWaddl,
for Brown could have gotten more