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

the bonds numbered from one to
thirty-one of the issue of April LIST,
1925, which were stolen, are listed.
Rodney Salisbury was called and
testified as follows:
have been sheriff of Sheridan
county, Montana for the past six
years and was acting sheriff on the
Both day of. November 1926. On the
30th day of November, 1926, after I
closed my office, | was at the Pro-
ducers News office and left my off
ice about S o'clock that evening, and
l went home a little after 8 o'clock
and about z, maybe 10 minutes to
Z, / received a telephone call at my
house from Bert Tortenson, the coun-
ty treasurer of Sheridan county,
Montana. He stated to me that I
should CON down to the court house
right away and | went down after I
had eaten my supper and | went dir
ect to the Sheriff's office and saw Mr..
Tortenson in the T~reasurer's office
and Anna Hovet. l found papers
strewn all over the floor and the safe
open. The vault doors was also open.
| went inside the vault and saw the
safes open. | had a conversation with
Mr.. Tortenson at the time and after
that | sent calls over the telephone
to Crosby, Grenora, Williston, Minot,
Culbertson and Regina and informed
the peace officers in said towns with
whom | got communication that q
robbery had been committed and to
be on the lookout. Frank Dionne and
| were out and saw some heavy auto
mobile tracks and we followed the
track around by the Court House and
then south about a block and a half
to the highway where the highway
goes toward Antelope and Reserve.
There was snow on the ground at the
time, the tracks were on the road that
went up the east side of the Court
House, and on the east side of the
Jail, and then about 2 blocks south
and we followed these tracks to the
highway about two blocks, something
like that, and then came back to the
Courthouse. l arrived at the Treas
urer's office a little before z o'clock
or about Z and that evening we went
down to Reserve about a half hour
after arriving at the Court House
probably about half past Z, | went to
follow this track to see where it came
in and where it came out on the high
way. You could see it very plainly in
places as there was snow in places
along the highway, but not very much.
An we followed these tracks about Is
miles, about a mile beyond Reserve,
and l wanted to see whether the tracks
at Reserve led south or east from
there. The road from Reserve to
Grenora goes directly east and to
Culbertson directly south and | deter
mined from the tracks that the car
went east from Reserve.
On cross examination the Witness
testified as follows:
GROSS EXAMINATION BY.
MIR. HURD
Q. You never obtained any accur-
ate description Of any sort Of the
supposed robbers, did you Mr.. Sails
bury? A.. Only what | got from
Bert and Anna Hovet. @. Mr.. Tors
t%enson. told you, did he not that \
man somewhat shorter than | am, five
feet eight, with a sheepskin lined
coat, moleskin color, color of mole
skin, was standing out in front of
the vault while Torstenson was in the
vault and said Hands up" Tors
tenson told you that, did he noty
A. Torstenson told me that it was \
tall fellow and a short fellow and the
tall fellow came over the top in the
open part, came over the top of the
wicket, and the short fellow came in
through the side door. @. And did
he tell you about the short fellow hay
ing al overcoat on, sheep lined over
coat? A. Yes. @. And it was Of
moleskin color? A. They both had
that on. @. I am dealing with one
at a time; We are not working with
three balls here. You heard Mr..
Torstenson state that the short fell
low was the one who was standing in
front Of the vault door, did you not,
when he said, Hands up? A. 7
don't recall that. / did not. Q Did
Torstenson tell you that the short
fellow didn't have on any hat or cap
that he noticed?
Mr.. BABCOCK: If the court
please, that is not cross examination.
Mr. HURD: l am entitled b go into
the nature of the information. The
Court: | think so. What he acted
upon. A. Well, the short fellow had
a sheep lined coat on with a hand-
kerchief over his face. Q. Just a
minute. A. Beg pardOn. . You