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

kind of on her knees and hands un-
derneath the counter, near the west
wall of the office. After / came out
of the vault | was required to as
sumo the same position on the floor
again. 1t is pretty hard to tell how
long | renamed in that position. 1t
might have been a minute or two min
utes OF three minutes. / could hear
they were cleaning out the safes in
there and | could hear some silver
jingling and things like that. This
short fellow he was still standing be-
tween Miss Hovet and l, watching us,
while the big fellow was in there.
AS far as / could tell, he was cleaning
out the safes in the vault.
After a while they marched both
Miss Hovet and | into the vault where
those safes were and then they slamm-
ed and locked the doors-the outside
door of the vault, and turned the
combination to the outer door. When
] came out of the vault and was re-
quired to lay down on the floor again
/ noticed the short fellow had a weapon
in his hands. 1t was a revolver or
six shooter, ] believe, and he still had
the same in his hand when Miss Hovet
and | were required to get up and go
into the vault. At the time we were
forced to go into the vault, both men
were out in the main office and each
of them had a weapon in their hands.
When / got up and was required
to go into the vault, / saw they had a
sack; | don't know what vas in the
sack; they had a lot of stuff; they
had some in the sack, and a lot of
stuff piled up on the table, in front
of the table.
Miss Hovet and | were in the vault
about an hour before we got out.
During that time we made an effort
to get out but were not successful.
How we finally got out of the vault,
we kept rafting the door, trying to
call attention to somebody around.
Finally my boy came down to see
about my going to supper. We heard
his voice outside of the main office.
/ hollered to him as loud as | could
and he sent his mother down. ! told
him to send his mother down.. That
was outside of the main office, out in
the hall. That would be about tbs
width of the room from the vault.
was successful in making him hear
me. The next peson | heard inside
| of the office or around the office az
ter that was Frank Dionne. He il
+ the ~janitor. We heard him COMING
through the door, and started Il
5 holler and rafting the door, and wnei
: he come up to the door, | told hin
t that we had been held up, | tried t
call the combination Of the door thrl
to him when he was on the outside
He tried to open it that way and coul'
2 MT make it, so he told me il Their
was any way / could unscrew the Dol
\ in the lock, then he could open tn
e door. There were some quarters lynn
e on the floor that had been dropIe'
!. or something. | took one of thes
n quarters, and I unscrewed the bolt i
a the vault door in the lock. ] got tn
{ bolt out and then turned the handl
+ on the outside and got us out. In m
I opinion, we were confined in the sar'
d about an hour. After coming out,
observed the condition of the office
There were a lot of paper and stuf
n laying outside of the vault on tn
d floor, some on the tables that were i
front Of the vault, and some on tn
e floor between the tables and the van
e where we had been held. | did NJ
il observe the nature of these papers {
If the time but later on when we exam
If med them there were some warrant
.e and there were some pouches whel
~ there had been securities in and stu
f. like that that had been in the rour
ii safe.
he The nature of the securities whit
al were kept or being kept in the rour
lg safe Immediately prior to or on Il
-
". 30th day of November, 1926, we
ct county bonds and county warran
it and school district warrants that h;
f. been accepted from the banks as co
ateral for county deposits. Ny re
a ords at that time show the amount
ne each of these several bonds, securiti
lg that record was kept in my office We
ne at the time the bonds were accepts
v from the banks, a duplicate recei
| for them was issued, which carri
on it showing the particular bonds a.
er warrants and bonds that were acceT
er ed from the bank. Those duplica
ad receipts were signed by both the bal
he those duplicte receipts were sign
ne by both the officials of the bank a
nd besides, myLelf as treasurer, and tn
Iat received one copy and | retained o
on in the office along with the securlti'