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

of leading into my office, one leads into
the Recorders office on the west and
another one into the Recorders office
on the east. l should Judge the small
room where the customers com in 70
transact business is | should judge
about six or eight by maybe ten or
twelve feet. First there is the coun-
ter around and there is a wicket above
that reaching up, ! should judge, about
twelve feet-no, about ten feet. The
top of the wicket is about eight or
ten feet from the floor. The counter
upon which the wicket is placed, !
should judge is about four feet, and
the wicket extends three or four feet
above that. There is no entrance be-
tween this wicket into the main off
ice. There is no door entrance in that
room.
When a customer comes in to trans
act business, hand his receipts out
through q cashiers wicket and that
is where they also pass the money into
the office. There is no door to that.
1t is open wicket and is about eight
cen inches by four or five high and
about eighteen inches wide, / should
judge. There are two of those open
ings right on the counter and they are
both about the same size.
| was present in the Treasurer's
office on the 30th day of November,
1926 and was there throughout the
entire day except the time / was off
for the noon meal. This Treasurer's
office was occupied exclusively by my
self and my employees at all times,
no other official or other person hav-
ing offices in there, and that included
J the vault as well, which vault was a
part of my office. AS County Treas
:. urer on November Both, 1926, ! had
two safes. They were kept in the
vault. We had one quare safe and
one of those round screw safes-onc
| of those round steel safes. II is what
: they call a burglar proof safe, and
they were the same safes / had in
I my office at the time / made appli-
: cation for this insurance. They were
= the same safes which ! had the day
/ made application for insurance and
= which ! have used up until the pres
e ent time. The round safe is one made
5 by the Carey Safe Company. To OPP
: en- this round safe, you open a combin-
: alton and then turn a handle half
e way around and the door would come
: open. This safe had a Time lock. II
:. has a clock on the inside of the door
l that you car set to open at a tern
q time and as long as that lock is OF
e that safe cannot be opened by the
q combination until that time is up. Il
). can be set for any time you desire
y and until that time is up it cannot b,
l. opened by myself II any one. Aftel
} the time is up it opens by the use O.
, my combination and after you hav'
! used the combination, you turn th'
e handle and then pull the door open
. AS to the interior of the safe, Their
is a round compartment in there AM
the door is probably about sixteel
, or eighteen inches in diameter, TIL
: room inside is wider and kind of i
a circle on the inside. That room in
: side is divided into two compartment
= with a steel shelf in the center an
the lower compartment also has
: door. This steel door is opened by
combination on the door inside, Their
being a combination both in the il
side door and outside door. The low
- err part of the interior Of this SAT-
which had the door on it, vas in m
general use and practice and used I
keep currency in and likewise gol'
if ! had any. On the upper part {
that compartment, top of that shell
~ we usually kept bonds and securitie
=. That was the custom in vogue on tt
:. both day of November, 1926.
The square safe was used to kee
,;r change in usually few hundre
or dollars in currency and silver. A
the money would come in from Il
nj days business we used to put in in
the square safe until such time as v
GA would put it in the round safe whC
No. it had accumulated in sufficient ar
or cunts. / and my deputy had acces
to them. My deputy and knew Il
l,v combinations Of those safes. AM
To- Hovet was my deputy throughout Il
fall of 1926 and she knew the combi
no atoms Of both safes. As a rule VIZ d
ter not use to lock that inner door of t
To- round safe but l knew the combin
lin ton if it was locked. / don't kno
cd if Miss Hovet did or not but / pr
all sumo so. The clerks had access
nd either of these safes in some insta
.st ces. If the clerk happened to Wa
70 on som customers, they might p
re money in the square safe because
L. a rule. the suuare safe was left op