The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-21
Now coming to recent events:

Now coming to recent events:
The murder and robbery of Mike Kennedy wa.
played up and Sheridan county was mentioned il
the head lines and at every possible excuse but the
bold daylight robbery by unmasked bandits of the
First State Bank of Frod at half past three in the
afternoon, after the cutting of the wires and re-
moval of the spark plugs of Sen. Schnitzler's air
plane, the most sensational state news of the dav
received about inch single column of space ii
boxed feature at the bottom of the front page
then the story went at once under single column
heads in obscure places in the back pages of the
paper.
Why this done?
The robbery of the bank at Froid was much
more audacious than the robbery at Plentywood a
year ago. but barely received passing notice in the
columns of the Tribune Tuesday afternoon about
three o'clock the State Bank of Flaxville was rob
ped by five bandits, well dressed fellows who an
peared as If they were members of the Kiwanis
or Rotary club IN some small town metropolis, who
dd the Job without bothering to mask or disguise
Ihelr Identity IN any way, and then took the road
toward the main line of the Great Northern over
the Reservation Sheriff AL Lawrence did his best.
Sheriff Anderson did his best and Sheriff Sails
curry dld his best, and Sen Schnitzler scared over
the reservation in his airplane, but the bandits
simply disappeared. The report of the sensational
holdup was reported to the Tribune under a Wolf
Point date line, presumably by the Wolf Point Her
aid. The report was quite accurate and was prom
mently played up in black face box article at the
top of the column front page
The FIaXvie news was featured better than the
report of the Froid robbery.
1t reported the city of FlaxvilIe as being in
Daniels county and not in Sheridan county as the
reports of the Froid robbery was worded to lead
the readers to believe Froid is the principal town
In eastern Roosevelt county, in one of the richest
farming sections of tire state The bank BELONGS
to Sen Schnitzer and is the biggest and richest
bank IN northeastern Montana, in the wav of re-
sources and deposits. John Anderson is the sher
III OF Roosevelt county and not Rodney Salisbury
as the Tribune so cleverly insinuated, although
oherf Salisbury co-operated in every way possible
with Sheriff Anderson in the effort to locate the
bandits as he does in every case where his assist
ance is requested in spite of the differences of the
Tribune However in the Flaxville bank robbery
report, the Tribune took considerable pains to tell
that Flaxville was on the road to Plentywood a
lew miles out of Scobey in order to connect the
AFFAIR with Sheridan county, and in both instances
1t was lnslnuated that these bandits likely made
their home in Sheridan county which every sane
man knows is absurd, and which the Tribune knew
to be lie.
In the reports of the Kelly-Ibsen car stealing
cases tried fortnight ago in the federal courts
at Great Falls when Kelly was convicted of having
d stolen car IN his possession and Ibsen was ex-
posed as fence for and dealer in stolen cars
ana other prominent men, businessmen, good re-
publlcans and democrats and not Farmer-I ,abor-
ties, were involved, the Tribune again demonstrat-
Ed It's proclivities for the wful perverson of the
Facts. In every report of this case the federal
officers were mentioned and were given the credit
Tor the apprehension of these cars at Plentvwood
and 1t was insinuated that brentwood was clear
ing house for hot cars and about the worst place
IN the northwest Sheriff Salisbury was never
mentioned In connection Herewith unless abso
utely necessary, when as a matter of record as
disclosed by the testimony, Sheriff Salisbury re-
covered and seized these cars and the matter was
IN the state courts three months before Officer
Eoersteln of the y. S. Department of Justice came
INTO the case at ALL and then he came in after the
case had been reported to the Department by Sber-
III Salisbury, who had gathered all of the evidence
and given it to the officers, after having prose
cuted one member of this gang of hot car operators
10 Che courts, where he was acquitted by iurv of
hu hIuXers in the courts of Roosevelt county
where the case had been taken on a change of
venue.
The Tribune gave all of the credit for this case
70 officer Eberstein If that mandacious sheet had
told the truth as it knew it, it would have had to
nave given this credit to Salisbury and that would
not have harmonized with its policy of perversion
d facts as far as this officer is concerned. The
rloune never misses an opportunity to misrepre
sent the facts concerning Sheriff Salisbury. No
doubt the news editor of the Tribune is being maid
tor this by some interested party
These are the facts in regard to the Tribune
as newspaper it is becoming absolutely unre
able and no reader should take anything he reads
n It's columns too seriously
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