The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-09-03

action, according to Scott, until the
tall stranger had, had, by pyramiding
his profits, worked it up to paper
profit of some $4,000. About this
time the stranger went to Scott, ac-
cording to the former brokers' story,
and pointed out that he had large
profit. at the same time asking if ne
could take his Liberty bonds back. Inc
bonds. according to SCOTS story, had
been kept in the safe In his ottlce IN
THE Placer. He says he told his al
legged customer that while it was un-
1s1al To return security until dea!s
we're closed. he guessed it would be All
r;0bt under the circumstances and ne
.gIve he turned the bonds back 70 the
customer. -
1Davs passed and cotton was stag
,.,,+ an the market. One afternoon,
eaid Scott. "the cotton SPECTATOR ca1i5
ed me up and said he was, compeiIeSu
to leave town for a few days ana SS9 =
ed me to protect his cotton DEAL ~
then being too late in the day 70 sc
cure his bonds from the DsnK. l
agreed to do so. A few Gays IaCeI'
tbe bottom fell out Of the cotton mar
ket. e.. - the
red So much so, in fact that IL car ),
RED the brokerage house to failure
The tall, dark stranger, described
bv Scott, has not been seen hereaDouCS
since, he says.
While nervously pacing ms cell az
the county jail, with clenche0 list EN-
nbasizing denunciations, w. 5. Good
Tnr confessed embeZZler of approx
matelv 100000 funds of the Farmers
and Mechanics State bank, today We
bementlv denounced critics who have
accused him of planting" money sur
reptiously removed from the instltu-
ton.
'Tve got Just one lone nickel in my
pocket, and that's all the money l
have in the world" declared Goodyer,
whose arrest Monday night following
admissions that he had looted the bank
startled the entire community.
Robbed Own Family
1.-THE whole story is ridiculous" he
continued "Why, l even robbed my
own family, l stole my wife's money
dllu bOOh llCl lllOIllCL = lNl4NAS III q FctAAA
attempt to cover up my shortages. If
l had wanted to- have planted the
money, why wouldn't it have been an
easy matter for me to have gone out
and bought negotiable bonds, had
them at the bank when the examiners
came and then removed them after
their departure? No sir, l have not
sailed the money away. Beside the
nickel in my pocket l have my car,
which is in my wife's name, and she
intends selling that and turning the
money over to one Of the more de-
serving depositors of the bank"
Attention of the prisoner was called
to. the history of the failure and clos
ing of the J. S. Scott brokerage house
in Helena last March. When the
books of the defunct brokerage house
were taken in charge by a committee
of creditors, the books were taken to
the offices Of the state auditor for a
check to investigate possible blue sky
law violations. When the books were
examined there, the discovery was
made that two entire pages had been
torn from tn ledger. These pages
according to- later Developments car
A4CN Viz AA4kobO4y VI Vic AOOuyCI u dis
actions under the name of Mrs. Good
yer. According to developments re-
vealed to creditors at a final meeting
in the offices of Referee Sam Ballet
an account credited to a mysterious
81. H. Campbell" who was shown as
having speculated On 600 bales of cot
ton, carried a book shortage of ap-
proximately $4,000.
What about that dummy account
carried in SCOTS books showing a loss
on 600 bales of cotton ?" asked a rep
resentative of the Montana Record
Herald when interviewing Goodyel
today.
81 wonder if that wasn't my ac-
count" Immediately answered the
cashier, who then switched to another
subject.
Asked SCOTS Aid
Did you have anything to do with
tearing out those two pages of the
records of the Scott brokerage trans
actiOns?" he was asked.
why, yes" he replied, 'I asked
Scott to cover up my dealings. I felt
that If word got out of my losses thai
trouble would result at the bank"
"Did you at any time gamble in any
other brokerage house or bucket shoI
aside from Scott's?" asked the inter
viewer.
Every dime that took out of the
bank, with the exception of one dea
IN American Wooden, I lost in Scott,
place." declared Goodyer. 81 tool
one loss of $4,000 two years ago OF
May wheat. On another occasion
i0st $4,000 on oats. was, perhaps
the only Spectator doing bushes.
with Scott who dabbled in oats, anC
l aWeke up one morning and decided
70 play with oats. Before night
mad dropped $4,000. Surely Mr.. Scot
remembers at least these two bis
losses beside all the smaller losses
took while playing the market in his
place. There were vary few dav,
during the last two years that 7 was.
n IN the market. All nv friends
knew that / was playing heavily.
pald my losses in bills of large demon.
Inatlon which l withdrew from my
bank. accounts and nearly always paic
IN currency. On few occasions 7 naiC
them with cashiers checks l am pos
1--WE that for months at a time I paic
all Of Scott's expenses through m
losses, Why's one. evening when MaX
wheatcwas up. around 81 [ walked out
into the dobby of the Placer hotel anC
met AN old fellow we all called Col
onel.' He is from ,Rimini. He asked
me how'll stood on wheat. l told him
lrhad 10000, bushels but that in