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

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combination while the sheet steel door
had a lock with a key. Whenever
the outside door was closed. the steel
door didn't necessarily have to be clos
ed. The door opens in the center and
the width of those doors weren't much
wider than the partition between the
inside door and the safe door so that
those doors could be practically OPEN
ed on the inside and the sutside door
still be closed. The doors on the in
side of the main valut door opened
outward, the same way as the vault
door.
When you got inside of those two
doors, the square safe was just as you
came in on the left side. almost flush
with the door there. At the time of
the robbery there was some silver
taken out of there but | don't know
the exact amount. | believe that was
all. | haven't any idea at all about
the amount. l made a claim for sill
vert is included in the total
amount. The daily cash statement
will show how much silver there was
in Safe No. 2. The daily cash state
ment for the day before. The burg
lar proof safe l was talking about
this morning was Safe No. 2 and re-
ferred to in the policies as such. That
safe was a manganese or cannon-ball
as they are usually termed. The safe
came up from the floor on a solid
pedestal and there was a short base
with rollers under it, and then came
up a solid pedestal and branched out
into a cannon-ball. All the compart-
ments in that safe were inside of what
we call the ~cannon-ball portion. 1t
had two compartments. The inside
portion was divided something like
that (indicating.) The lower part
was a steel chest and supposed to be
burglar proof, and it had a door clos
ing over it inside of the safe itself, and
that had a combination on it for the
purpose of opening it. The combina-
ton was in the middle-in the middle
below, down in the direction of the
compartment somewhere. When l
worked that combination | lifted UP a
fiat and there was no drawer inside
of that. AS soon as / opened the
screw door outside, | could be into
that portion. We usually followed
the practice of locking the door over
the money compartment if we had a
large amount of currency in there.
On the 30th day of November, all the
currency which | said was taken from
me was taken from that lower COM
partment. The gold was in there too,
but not much silver. | can give you
pretty close the amount of silver
that came out of Safe No. 2. De-
PENDANTS proposed exhibit 81 is my
daily cash balance statement running
from the 3rd of January, 1926, down
to November Both, and December list,
1926. Page 103 shows how much sill
yer was taken out Of Safe No. /. 1t
shows there was $1400 in silver in the
square safe, Safe No. l.. l don't know
how much was taken from Safe No. 2
and haven't any way of telling exactly
from my books. | know there was
$500 in gold taken from Safe No. 2.
There was no gold in Safe No. | and
no currency taken from Safe No. 1.
I can't give you the exact figures
from here as to amount of currency
taken from Safe No. 2 on November
30th. This is the balance the Goth.
1t shows what it wa the 10th, the
day before the robbery. In addition
to the currency shown here there was
also currency taken in on the Both.
| have no way of telling the jury ex-
actly how much currency was taken
out of Safe No. 2 on the 30th day of
November 1926. 1t would be what
was in there on the Goth, the day be-
fore, and in addition therto, the cur
rency that was taken in on the Both.
On the Goth there was SAL 100000 in
currncy in even money, currency only.
On November 30th, all the cash took
into the Treasurer's office in cash,
which of course includes currency,
gold and silver, was $~3,723.3S ap-
proximately. That is about the
amount.
@. You didn't count the money OH
November Goth, did your A. Well.
/. A. Yes or no. (Argument by
counsel.) Q. / asked if he counted
this money on the goth of Novem-
Der. A. l counted the currency. yes.
Q. You counted the currency on the
Goth of November? A. On the Goth,
no. @. You didn't count it on the 18th
either, did you? A. | don't think
| did, no. @. You didn't count it on
the 9th either, did you? A. No. Q.
Nor on the 26th? A. Well M.