The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-05-28

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had been previously arranged for
Dennis beginning that night, but that
he would be back here the next day
and would be surrendered, or deliv-
cred, or something like that, at the
courthouse, promptly at that time,
the county attorneys office consented
to the hiatus. Wednesday passed, so
did Thursday, but without the arrest
and incarceration of Mr.. Dennis.
Sheriff in No Hurry.
Dennis was known to be in Helena
Thursday night, yet the warrant con-
tinued to repose in the sheriff's peck
ct. When Deputy County Attorney
A. P. Haywood was informed yester-
day morning that the dry dick was
here, he instructed the sheriff to
make the arrest forthwith.
Shoots Man in Back.
Dennis is charged in an informa-
ton in the district court with an as
sault in the first degree on Laska
C"Tex") Dawson, a ranch foreman in
northern Lewis and Clark county, at
a dance at Gilman on the night of
April "a. Dawson was shot twice in
the back by Dennis, following a
fight in which Dennis and another
one of Marsters' men, Harry Holland
got the worst of it after they had
tried to break into Rufus IngersOll's
automobile. Dawson was unarmed,
and denies that he was a combatant.
He is still in a hospital in Great
Falls.
Reign of Terror at Gilman.
Instead of making some attempt to
enforce the Prohibition Law in Butte,
where 1000 saloons run wide open and
a ''hcense system" has been estab-
lished by the city authorities there,
Col. Marsters has sent some of his
men up to Gilman to frame up a de-
tense for Dennis. The Helena indie
pendent carries a story about this
latest adventure of the underlings of
the 'Man from Idaho" which reads
as follows:
The report here yesterday was,
that the prohibition spies now work
ing at and around Augusta with the
assistance of the "purity squad" at
that place, the members of which
complained to Marsters about drink
ing and other bad conditions at Gil
man Dances" got young man lock-
ed up in a hotel room and subjected
him to a brutal "third degree" to
force him to sign a false affidavit
favorable to Dennis case. Their vic
time was inexperienced, the story
goes, and ignorant of his rights, and
was therefore easily scared by the
threats and beatings from the dry
dicks into signed their framed affida-
Wit.
The affidavit thus obtained will, OF
course, not be worth the paper it is
written on when it comes into the
trial of Dennis, and the witness re-
pudiates it, as of course he will, and
tells the facts as he knows them
when on the witness stand. 1t will
not prevent the attorneys for Daw-
son to press a charge of perjury
against the witness, however, and OF
course they'll do that very thing.
The dry snOops will leave nothing
undone, short of murder, if they stoI
even at that, to terrify other citi
zens into make fake affidavits, with
which the adjunct of the Anti-SaloOr
league will try to clear their gun
man.
The citizens at Augusta and Gil
man will be informed as rapidly a:
possible by Dawson's friends tina
they cannot be forced against thei-
will to make afidavits for the fedora
dicks; and that all they have to do
when the pressure gets too strong i
to tell them to ego to hell"