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

serve, you say you could have kept on
going? A. We could have kept on
going, we were not making time.
Q. That road led into Grenora? A.
Yes. Q. That was over in North Da-
kota? A. Yes sir.
@. That was the first place you
thought you might com into contact
with the automobile, is that true?
A. For the reason that the road
was blocked other directions.
Q. All am getting at is this. Did
you start out from Plentywood to
keep following the tracks as long as
you could follow them? A. I did.
Q. And by reason of a bent axle.
you couldn't make very good time, is
that right? A. That is right.
@. There were garages at Reserve.
were there not? A. Wei, there was
not any garage at Reserve at that
time, ! don't think.
@. Did you stop to impress some
body else's car into service, and let
you gon on with the investigation,
borrow a car, or hire a car of any
body? l did not. You simply turned
around there and went back to Plen-
tywood? A. Turned around a mile
east Of Reserve. @. That was the
only trip that you made that night.
or to any point, or did you make
others? A. That was the only trip
! made that night by car.
Q. Did you make any by foot? A.
Yes. Q. Where did you go? A. |
was over to Charley Kings house
somewhere about midnight.
@. That was not on this investi-
CATION, vas it? A. 1t was not on
this car investigation. @. How?
A. 1t was on investigation pertain
ing to the robbery. @. Vel, he lives
right there in the town of Plenty
wood? A. Yes sir.
@. So that the only investigation
you made outside Of the town Of
Plentywod, was the trip that you have
just told us about that night?
A. That night. outside Of teIe-
phoning, telephone calls, and things.
you know. @. Now. then the county
to the west of you is Daniels? A. 1t
is. @. You didn't telephone to the
Sheri of Daniels County at Scobey.
did you? A. | did not. Q. And
then the county to the South of you
is Roosevelt? A. 1t is. @. You did
not telephone the Sheriff of Roose-
welt County, did you? A. did not.
Q. The road leading from Plenty
wod to Culbertson, was perfectly pas
sable, was it not that night? A. |
think it was passable that night, | be-
live it was.
@. And you have given us then, SO
far as your trip out of town is cor
cerned, all Of the facts which you nov
recall, have you? A. As far as tn
trip out of town, yes, yes.
Q. OF course, you don't know what
kind of an automobile print the tires.
the tracks of which you saw, do you
A. What did you say? @. You
don't know anything about the make
of the automobile tires, making the
tracks that you followed? A.. Only
that it was a large tire? @. Simply
a large tire. A. Yes sir.
Q. Was it a ballon tire? A. Yes.
| believe it would be a balloon tire.
@. How is that? A. II would b.
a balon tire. yes. @. Was it as large
as thirty-two, or thirty-three by six
twenty? A. / would think it would b.
a large one, like thirty-three. @. And
six-twenty, six hundredths, or what.
A. / cannot say close enough for
that. 1t would be a large casing what
l would consider about a thirty-threa
by six hundredths.
@. And that is all that you know
about the matter as to the car? A.
Yes sir.
Q. You never inquired, you didn'r
get any further information about thu
car, did you, the tires of which fl
those tracks? A. Oh yes, / did.
@. About those particular tracks.
A. Yes, / done some more talking
about the different things, / done Sc
much talking about the different
things / don't recall everything | SAID.
@. Well, to get at it in anothe-
way. You never experienced with any
tires in those tracks, so that you coulc
determine what make of tires hao
made those tracks, did you? A. Well
of course. Q. How is that?
A. Of course, the track was q deer
imprint and we thought at that time
that they had the back end of the car
loaded down with something, that is
what the undersheriff suggested or
account of the chains going into the
ice and snow so den.