Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-01-23
mig" COLLINS ARRESTED ON FELONY
WHAT MORE EVIDENCE is
NEEDED TO CHECK CRIME?

of facts occasions n surprise. However, to some people in this county
N @in %ss s5'9S Of :? sSsri Sn"se esnss aas 8 s" + certain sra 3 Blind st fa1sx e Of Of s r.
i pgGdu'e n d Sews and fr it's tm ed dsTspu IT ,s a o anans'ss '' Their honesty n
To be brief, let US present a few well known facts first.
Who is Mig Collins?
of three young girls, ali students at the he Fleetwood 1s y high sch, school !, who r. have
ON a. the outskirts Of Fis en- VOC giving tSs me. Haus1 and attempting iSsr-
Collins is also sef-acclaimed boss of the bootleg business in north
eastern Montana He is also known as a promoter Of gan, game {. sss .ssis
dan county treasury.
Who is Rodney Salisbury?
wa s, for years ar ia and %rs still is, Snsss a he T ssIss s, withi It, the ns,5 gsst f" weeks
a afec saris n N at It ~ ieb bon dn for Mig Collins. Yes, he signed
a $4,000 bond to keep Mig out Of Jail.
Is More Evidence Necessary?
this sine1 ht the eg p1sssa5 Pvb Sed tsa a the 0T pfedue ea sh N sHs'l Nr 'S Collins ans. and
held that the ss enforcement for essmass11tssesf.1ls law sn und der the aDde TSy1GTl Salisbury regime was
would HI he, saf fermsr sheriff f. who stt has SWORN sr't to uphold Sod the ia law, now Dess' jump to
the defense of Collins, who is charged with a most loathsome crime?
The Growing Proof
Every scheme possible TO say Mig as gone over. no Sc,d doubt, and
or our so-caned respectable citizens.
bootleg graft, the treasury robbery DOODLE, money that had been paid for
special e,aa privileges Na sr and %d lm hnd nj y xh these sen \ AOde h nsur . m be n e se SaSs
ing NJ Sa a wicked de lash 81 'S "''' '' '"p manu. N 49,
The prosecuting attorney is being beseiged with callers, urging,
to ave Mig as to save their own names ), from b being s brought st, into d%t
those who have slipped from the straight aiigha and d narrow in Ng IS presence pre- nee
% . s4 his knowledge are not $ sure that # he be convicted he will not
4. we " state stated l.. Mig s.s is welding sslass, =. i. lash H. If /. .. go to tn the u big hos use
squirm. Family skeletons will be locked as safely As possible in the
vault of responsibility. while manhood goes begging to the county attorn-
ey not % "str up a mess" by convpting Mig Collins.
viii, IT., The s, fact that a. Others slsss,r may y, be :. g aassst with vi h. the o same ne. crime pn.. as Mig
In fact, that has already been done. There will be more of it.
May Demand a Grand Jury
However, the big majority pf the people in P1entywood and Sheri-
dan county are law abiding. They want the fostering cancer of this
community removed once and for all. II they cannot get action in this
case they have declared themselves as favoring the calling of a grand
jury to probe graft and crime and corruption in this county to its very
roots.
The people want the sacredness of their homes and their families
protected from the underworld element If our young girls are to he
toted off to a king bootleggers dive and there have booze and insults
showed at them, there be subjected to lustful attacks, and our courts do
not protect them when they ask it, n o home and no young girl is safe.
The people of Plentywood are a decent and as respectable and
law-abidng as any on earth. They have been forced to watch and wait
until the county was rescued from the clutches of the Producers News
and its cohorts before any action could be taken to stamp out lawhss-
ness and gang rule.
For months the Producers News, claiming to be a farmers news
eral officers.
it's hyprocracy, a poor degenerate weaklng, doing the bidding of one
whom decent cnizenry shnrs.
1t is only a matter of time until any gangster oversteps himself
There is always a day of reckoning. The Producers News editor knew
this and it has assaied the officers with all the venom it could muster in
order to stave off the reckoning day as long as possible
Crooks may WELD a whip hand over their own, but they cannot
WELD it over the public longer than the public wishes to stand for it.
Public patience is now exhausted. "The mills of the Gods grind
slowly but they grind exceedingly fine" The public asks for n more
than Justice. That demand cannot be ignored.
Petitions praying for the sunnnoning Of a grand jury are in readi
ness, awaiting the result Of the pending action.