Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-10-25

amount of securities from each bank
l have those checks l speak OF. l
have these check books with me-.
Prior to the robbery, | had not COM
pleted my check of the business done
on the Both day of November, 1929.
l had merely taken the currency that
was. taken in that day and counted it
and vas starting to place it in pack
ages, and was ready to put in in the
safe when the hold-up and robberg
occurred. During the days business
| also received checks and drafts in
payment for taxes. We had some
checks there from the previous day
and the checks from that day the,
were in the square safe. At the time
the robbery occurred, / had not made
a list of the receipts for the day.
The way we could determine what the
receipts for the days business were
we determined from t~abulating and
adding up the receipts-the duplicate
receipts. There were a whole lot of
receipts now for that day, and from
also adding the disbursements made
during that day and counting the
cash that had remained in the office.
That was the manner in which |
determined the loss. The receipts for
the day remained there; they were
not taken. | mean the duplicate re-
ceipts were not taken. ! did not mean
the money received. ] meant the tax
receipts.
While Miss Hovet and | were locked
in the vault, we did make an examin-
alton of the contents of the safe for
the purpose Of determining whether
or not any property OF the county. or
any money securities had been re-
moved from the safes. The round
safe was empty. We examined the
contents of that safe and found that
it was empty. All the money and Sc
cruities had been removed. Prior to
the robbery the last time ! looked in
the round safe was when / put the
money in there, the currency taken
in that day, and the contents of the
safe were intact at that time. | had
put into the round safe the currency
for the day at the time ! was held uI
and / was just ready to close the
safe. The safe had not been CLOSED
/. at the time | was held up. At th'
time my attention was first called Il
the robbery by any word spoken b,
: them, or any action made by tn,
robbers, / had walked into the vaul
) TO put the money in the safe. / wa.
Z in there and had the safe open whel
) was commanded to raise my hands
i The money was not in my hands
! had just put it in the safe but ha'
. not closed the door.
While Miss Hovet and | were locke
J. in the vault / also made an exami'
4 alton of the square safe. There wa
e in the lower compartment we pu
t some nickels, / think, and dimes, an
e some of those hal been taken, bu
z otherwise there was in the squar
compartment-there were a lot o
e checks and they had not been touched
n lots of checks and drafts bundled wit
e receipts attached to them, that we ha
G not been able to clear through tn
banks. They We're not taker
t There was a small bundle of currenc
in one of the drawers in the squar
safe which they evidently had over
looked. All these transactions whlc
Ie have related, took place in the of
n ce of the County Treasurer of Sher
lie dan county.
After | was let out of the vault,
1t Immediately afterwards-anyway wit
in a very short time, ! called up II
L. Shelf and asked him to come dow
Immediately. | reached him at h
re home, and in response to that call !
IF came to the court house. That Wa
I'd the sheriff of Sheridan county | Gale
His name is Rodney Salisbury. Vi
n on his reaching the T~reasurer's of
I'd ice / told him the circumstances of ii
ne robbery; that we had been held IL
re He looked around and he walked o.
IS of the office, | believe, shortly aft
adj we checked up on the sacks. ! d
H. not go with him. | remained in Il
C. office. Well, before that-before
of arrived, | also called William Ericks,
es as he was the cashier Of the Ri
IS. State Bank. ! thought | ought
ed have someone there to check besid
ut myself. Erickson arrived shortly a
ed ter Salisbury arrived. After Ericks,
nd arrived we started to check up on t
IT. tax receipts, duplicates, we had in I
.te office. The other receipts also chez
nix ed up what warrants had been pa
ed that day and other disbursements, al
nd counted the remaining cash. Mr.. T
ey ickson assisted me doing those thing
ne From the computation made at tn
es. time, together with other recor