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

datiOn and methods resOrted to by
Brown and Lang. which doubt that
even Col. Marsters will approve of.
If his outfit, including the Attorney
General, have affidavits. why don't
they use them instead of talking about
them like a bunch Of lOcOed chip
hunks?
Browns demurrer against the in
formation filed in Judge OlsOn's court,
was set for argument, Tuesday, Janu
airy 9Th, right after the New Years
celebration in Helena, where booze
flowed as freely as flows the ANA
zOn. On Monday morning, January
4th, Assistant Attorney General Col
Inns arrived in PIentywOOd. accOmpa-
MED by Earl Welliver, head of the
government Prohibition Enforcement
department, with an understrapper
named Hill. and about a dozen stool
pigeons and dicks. In fact the town
was lousy with them. They were go
ing to clean up PlentywOOd. They
were the GOldust Twins. Brown
came in Monday.
Monday evening General Collins
and Officers Welliver and Hill and
the stOOlpi geOns had a conference
with Burley Bowler and Al Lawrence
of ScObey, who came down for the
occasion and stopped at room 80, Lee
land hotel without registering, Oscar
Collins, Ray Lang, L. 5. Olson, John
/ O'Grady and others over in Ray
Lang's basement. This conference
lasted some time. Another confer
ence occurred Tuesday and Wednes-
day and Thursday. They talked over
plans-nOt to enforce the prohibition
laws, all, no; but plans to get the
Sheridan county officials. Lawrence
could have gotten bOOtleggers over in
ScObey if that was what he wanted.
The prohibition dicks could have
gotten bOOtleggers and mOOnshners
in Helena, probably in the very places
where they eat, if that were What
they were after.
Tuesday the argument on the de-
murrer came up. Onstad & Greer ap-
peared for Brown, also Gen. Collins.
Judge Olson looked to Collins for adj
vice, and Collins told him the infOr-
nation was deficient and should be
dismissed. Collins was acting in the
capacity of an attorney for the de-
Tense instead of a prosecutor of "a
man who had committed foul crime.
Olson Dismissed Collins. but Sheriff
Salisbury arrived at that moment
from Judge PauPs Office with a war
rant issued on information filed in
the district court direct and arrested
Brown and Lang on the charge OF
bribing a witness. The Joy was thus
quickly turned to sorrow. The jaw
/ of General Collins dropped. The
dicks in the room commenced to chat
ter. They said, "amOng themselves, .
and in range Of the Sheriff's ear
'SThis is going too far. We will 60
the limit now. This is the straw that
broke the camels back, and other
remarks calculated to make the Sher-
if nervous and figity. Salisbury took
his prisoners before Judge Paul and
Brown and Lang by their attorneys
Onstad and Greer, demurred to the
new information and Judge Paul sci
the bonds at $1,000 each which were
furnished by Leo .Ziedler and Nick
Rueter, and the hearing was set fol-
Monday, January, 18th.
All the week rumOrs were set aflOat
every few hours that Sheriff Sails
bury and County Attorney Erickson
had been arrested or were about t.
be arrested upon some serious charge
based upon the mysterious affidavits-
: that the warrants would come in or
each train.
On Saturday, January 9Th, Deput,
United States Marshall Curt Den
p mis- arrived on the morning train witt
q warrants and handed one to Sheriff
Salisbury, Undersheriff StOner anC
County Attorney Erickson, and theI
went to Medicine Lake to get ANDY
. Holm. He told these officials to ap
pear before u. S. Com. Belensl1i ant
give bonds. The warrants charged
/ these officers and Andy Holm Will
the obstruction of Justice a copy
of which information appears else
i where in these columns. The bonds
were furnished and a hearing asked
. for. Com. Belinski did not like tn,
, idea of the hearing and tried to per
{ suade the officers to waive eXaRina
ton. They insisting, Belinski set the
hearing for January 28th.
Weird stories of these arrests were
Immediately sent out to the press.
The charges of Constructing Just
ice" filed against the above officers
/ are the variest rot. This is what
comes after all this talk about in
eliminating affidavits and all these
conferences in Ray Lang's garage
basement. Now the state press are
/ reporting that Attorney Genera
FOOte has been carrying on an inves
tigatiOn on his own hook and that h
/ may if he finds anything to substan
2 tiate it, bring actions of some kind
+ His comment is very weak and seem;
, to grow weaker day by day.
| Col. Marsters in a statement to tn,
! press says that the officers arrested
: Brown to get his affidayits, but tina
. the afiidavits were in his hands all o.
? of the time. If they were then Brown
and his friends lied when he said tina
! he resisted arrest in order to keel
. them from falling into the Sheridan
, county officials hands and destroyed
, Col. Marsters and his stOOlpigeOl
: should get together on their stories
: Thus allegations against the Sheri
dan county officials seems to be
tissue of misunderstanding con
I iured in the minds of those driven b!
hatred, and encouraged by thOs
: grafters and explOiters who would re
: turn the old regime to Sheridan cOun
: ty and a bunch of vultures who ar,
l hanging around here biding their tim
' to pick the bones Of the farmers whel
} they have officers who are willing
2 tools to their designs.
Monday, when Brown should hav
: appeared for the argument of hi
5 demurrer, a writ came in from TIL
{ United States District Court at Grea
Falls, citing Clerk of Court Olson t.
e send in the records to the Fedora
2 Court. The papers were sent up. l