The Kusko times., 1927-03-05

aCeQ, Scnermeyer OeCl3EeOs
 There the money rested until the following spring, Schermeyer said.
 The prosecutor halted. the narrative here and asked Schermeyer if "any of. the men were intoxicated"
 "They had drunk quite a. little, the witness replied
 'Was the mail sack completely de- stroyed by fre2" questioned Ellis..
 "I think so," answered Schermeyer-
 "Did it contain mail matter?"
 "Not that noticed" Schermeyer answered.
 The government attorney asked the witness if he had heard about the registered sack being taken to Flat to be opened. and Schermeyer said he had not.
 On the 4th of May in the spring; of 1923 Schermeyer testified that he took up the sack containing the money and moved it to the roadhouse. That evening o rthe following morning, he said. he placed it among several mag azines,. tying the bundle up. Scher-. meyer said he closed his roadhouse and went to Idikarod, taking the money with him. There he stopped mt the Adams House, and in order to prevent any suspicion attaching to him the witness said he carelessly threw the magazine bundle on a. billiard table and left it there for sev- eral minutes. The next day Scher- meyer said he went on. down to Fat. He testified he saw Mrs. Bates that night and told her he had, the money with him. The next morning, he. said, she came to the place at which he was stopping. There they opened the. sack and Mrs. Bates counted the currency, the witness declared. He said that he took no part in the counting and that, the defendant told. him the, pouch, contained $28,O00. Schermeyer said he then hid the money in. his bed. They discussed the problem of how. to, dispose of it, and Mrs. Bates suggest ed that she bring pieces of rubber. coats and the currency. be buried in them, the witness asserted. The next day 'Schermeyer. said he, buried the bills in the greenhouse at Flat. It appears that the witness had be be- come interested with, or was working for,. the greenhouse owner.
 Some time later Mrs. Bates told him that Starr T. ,Pinkhan,, posta. iin- spector, was coming to the Iditarod district, presumably to investigate the robbery, and she asked him what he intended to, do, according to the testimony offered; by Schermeyer.2 He said he replied that he might. be sus- pected and so he moved the money from the greenhouse and buried itsin the garden Insathea faH the witness said Ne agin changed the hiding place, hurying the package in a-roothouse under. two tans of .tarrots...
 | spring Schermeyer said he had diff culfy, in locating it. The place. in whieh! he, claims to have buried the money was damp, he said, and while using crowbar to feel flor s-it+, he struck the package and z mutilated l.somes of the $50 bills. =. Sclermeyer declared he told Mrs. Bates of this and that she suggested ironing the money. This suggestion was followed outr He.took the bills to her house in punches of about 20O,, thegwitnessvte. tified. He said that she ironed, them | and that the currency was then placed in fruit jars. The moneyswas left in the garden until ear1y in September of 1924, the witness said.
 At that time Schermeyer; said he once again cached the loot in a.new place, hiding it this time under the barn. About then, the witness said. he had made. up his mind to go Out