The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02


playing in the basement at the Dahl
quist home, and one of the boys Jump
ed off barrel and landed on the 9th
er boys head and hurt him.
Mrs. Dahlquist demonstrated with
/ the boy, telling him he might have
killed his brother. "What do they
do with people who kill other peo-
ple?" the boy asked.
"They put them in JAIL" replied
Mrs. Dahlquist.
Elsie, standing alongside Mrs. Dahl
quist, spoke up and said, "they don't
always put them in jail"
eyes, they do" answered Mrs. Dahl
quist. WhereupOn Elsie again de-
MED that they did, and said her
"Uncle Joe killed a man once and
they did not put him in jail" Mrs.
Dahlquist did not care to pursue the
conversation any further in the pres
ence of the children, but on Wednes-
day morning she asked the little girl
what she meant by saying that her
uncle had killed man.
The girl then stated that "about a
year ago there was a man over to
their place (she was living with Joe
KittOck at that time on a visit from
Poplar) and he and Joe got terribly
drunk. ice told him that he had
not repaid him for a bottle of whis-
key that Joe had bought for him, and
they quarreled quite a while. At last
old Mother Kittock rushed into anoth-
er room and secured a revolver, which
she put in Joe's hand, and he shot the
man, and he fell down. / got awfullv
scared and ran outside, where l wait
ed while, and at last went over to
Tom Kittock's house. After a while
Aunt Carrie came over to Toms and
got me home, and told me l must not
say anything about the shooting"
Then the girl told that she was sent
back to Tom Kittock's TO spend the
night. She said she watched quite
while and saw someone take Joe's car
out in front of the kitchen door and
a man lifted the body of the victim
into the car. She also said she heard
them talking about taking the body
down to the creek.
Mrs. Dahlquist had been away at
the time of the Siegert murder, a lit
tie over a year ago, and thought the
girl was dreaming. Seeing George
Johnson go by the house She called
him in, about 900 o'clock in the
morning, and told him what the girl
had said, wondering if the girl was
crazy.
Mr.. johnson recalled the Siegert
murder, and told Mrs. Dahlquist not
to say anything about it till he could
repor the conversation to Mr.. Nyuuist.
Mr.. Nyquist had the girl brought to
his Office where he questioned her at
great length. She was positive about
the main points, but seemed hazy in
her memory Of many minor details.
She could not recall the gun, whether
it was long one or a short enc. She
thought it was Joe who loaded the
body into the car, but was not posi-
tive.
After going through an hours grill
ing, Joe Kittock was seen outside and
Mr.. NyQuist had him called in. He
said he had been looking fer the girl
around town. The girl was asked to
repeat her story before her uncle, and
she did so. Her uncle became vio-
lently angry, and ordered her to shut
up. "Ycu don't know what you're
talking about" he said, and frighten-
ed the girl till she cried, but stuck
to her story, and told him that he had
done the shooting.
Kittock was held at the county
Jail, while the county attorney check
ed up en- some of the details in her
story, and is said to have received
sumo damaging admissions from one
of the members of the family. He
felt that the only course left for him
was to issue warrant charging man
slaughter, and this was done Wednes-
day night.