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

Then do you pass to on the north side,
or north of the County Jail? A.
Pass north of the County Jail, yes
that is right. Q. Going east? A..
Yes sir. Q. You say you fond this
automobile track over in the vicinity
Of a road OF trail, did you not? A..
1t is a road that is travelled very lit
tie around there. @. But there is
a trail that comes off the hill, is there
toward the east and drops down in
that direction? A. Yes. Q.And is
used at times? A. Yes. Q. And
that is where you found the automo-
bile tracks when you first picked them
up? A. Yes sir. @. And how far
were they from that door? At the
extreme east end of the east and west
corridor of exhibit 40? A. How far
is this road from that door. @. Yes.
A. Well, / would say it would be ac-
ross the Clerk & Recorders office.
across the Commissioners room. and
probably runs about ten or fifteen
feet from the Commissioners room;
/ would say it would be forty or fifty
feet, maybe sixty feet. l don't know
just exactly. but something like that.
@. Now then, after you picked up
this up, you followed that in a south
erly direction, did you? A. Yes.
Q. And still along that road or trail?
A. Yes, running up the hill. @.
Running up the hill? A. Yes. @.
And eventually they got into one of
the strets or roads running south
from Plentywood? A. Yes sir. @.
That road was free of snow at that
time, was it not? A. There was a
sprinkling of snow there. @. The
road showed hat automobiles had been
up and down there during the time
proceeding your getting on it. did it
not? A. There was a light snow
that evening. O. Was it heavy
snow? A. No, light snow. Q. Was
it showing at that time? A. I don't
think so. @. You don't think it
was? A. No. @. Vas the snow
packed when you hit the main road
leading from Plentywood to gilbert
son, that is the road you took? A.
Was the road packed? Q. Yes. A.
Well. there was places where there
would be drifts and there were places
where there was not any snow. @.
There would be places where there was
no, snow and the snow would become
packed by reason of vehicles and au-
tomobiles going over it? A. | think
that is right. @. Now then, you fol-
lowed that road to Reserve, that is
true is it not? A. Yes a mile east
of Reserved. You are familiar, of
course, with tracks which are made
by automobile tires. are you not?
A. Yes, / know. @. And you are
familiar with automobile tires, are
you not, of different makes? A. ]
am not familiar with different makes
of automobile tires. @. Well, of
course, that there are various de-
signs of treads of tires? A. Yes sir.
@. Was there anything in the i'm
print of the tire in the snow which in
dicated to you what kind Of a tire it
was? A. There was not, l couldn't
tell you what kind of a tire it was
@. Not at any time where you picekd
up these tracks, did anything indi-
cate as to what kind of a tire it was?
A. They had chains on and the chains
what showed, showed more plainly
than the tracks; it had a heavy chain
on the automobile. @. Couldn't tell
very much about what kind of a chain
it was by reason of the print of the
chain, could you? A. | could not.
@. You didn't make close enough
examination to determine what kind
of an automobile tire, did you? A.
1t was an automobile tire with,--the
ridge run cross ways of it, you could
see the imprint in the snow. @. So
that if we had a tire in front Of us,
there was a ridge across the tire this
way? A. / don't remember if it
was in the center or not; it may have
been divided in the slot, in the center,
/ don't just recall that. @. At any
rate you know that there were i'm
prints of ridges on the center of tn
tread of tires, do you? A. 1t showed
that yes. @. Did you make any in
vestigation by any method to deter
mine what kind of tires they We're?
A. Wei, my undersherif knows, !
don't know. He is an automobile
man. @. Don't tell what he said?
A. ! lcf' that practically to him. Q.
So that as far as you know, you have
not any information of your own on
the subject? A. i know very little
about automobile tires.
@. All right. We wont go any fur
Their on that subject. Now then, when