The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-01
RODGERS GUILTY,
2 TO 4 YEAR TERM
MUST DO TIME IN DEER LODGE
FOR ASSAULT ON j.
VAHRENKAMP
Continued From Last Week.
Mrs. Strife's Story

Mrs. StrIfe'S Story
Mrs. Lee Strife was a good wit
ness. She told of hearing the noise
and vile language near the bunk
house on the night in question.
| Then she heard James call: Come
quick, Lee, Rodgers has killed the
blacksmith" Her husband then
went down to the bunk tent and
was gone long time. She stood
in the door of the Strife tent, look
ing out and waiting for her hus-
band to return, and while standing
she saw Rodgers coming running
toward the tent from the direction
of the blacksmith shop. Buck Rod
gers met him and said something
to this effect: you aren't going to
leave us here alone are your ia
ther", and the elder man had an
swered, ''Oh, I've killed him, and
I'm gone, I'm gone for good. You
stay and see how he comes out
Goodbye, sweetheart, goodbye"
Mrs. Strife also told of taking
Vahrenkamp to Wolf Point the fol
lowing day and said that he went
to the Office of Dr.. Larson who took
an X-ray of his head.
j. T. Owings was called to the |
stand and said that he had first |
seen Rodgers early the morning of
August %, when he came to the
Owings place and wanted Rattle
snake Pete" to take him to Chel |
sea. He was in too much of hur-
ry to eat breakfast in Wolf Point, |
so they ate in Poplar When they
got near Chelsea, Rodgers decided
he wanted to go on to a road
camp just west of Culbertson. Mr..
Owings said that he did not know
where Rodgers had come from
that morning.
Doctors Examine
DR.. G. B. Larson told of Vahren-
kamp's call at his office on the
forenoon of August % and said
that he had taken an X-ray photo
of Vahrenkamps head which
showed serious skull fracture
He identified an X-ray photo, one
of the States proposed exhibits,
as the one which he had taken. He
told of the operation upon Vahren-
kamp's head at the hospital in
Glasgow the following day, and
identified pieces of bone as those
which had been taken from the
injured mans skull.
DR.. Mark D. Hoyt of Glasgow,
5old of the operation upon YAH
'enkamp at the Deaconess hospital
1T Glasgow on August "a and iden- /,
.iffed an X-ray photo as one which ,,
1e had taken at the time. He said ,
hat Vahrenkamp seemed some ,
What hazy in his mind before they =
lad operated He described the
racture and the depression on the ;
)rain resulting from the blow that ,
lad caused the fracture. He said +,
hat severe fracture might cause ,
leath, and that the fracture of YAH !,
skull had been caused
)y a considerable blow, that it
,ould not have been caused by a
)low with fist. +
Dorr Helping f
Tom Dorr testified that on the '
light of August q he was in Os- l
vego and that he saw Rodgers '
nd Vahrenkamp there. He cor Z
oborated the testimony of Vahren- t
amp that although several Attempts I
lad been made TO get Rodgers to f
20 home with the rest of the par
Y, he had been unwilling to do so. d
lie said that as far as he knew
he men had not had any intoxi
ating liquor. Asked on cross ex-
mination if he were not tending !
ar" in the Oswego pool room on Y
he night in question, he replied
hat only soft drinks were sold :
here.
Archie Council, son of undersher- &
f Charles Council, described the
rrest of Rodgers at the Reiss place
bout 10 or u miles northeast 3
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