Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-04-10
MIG COLLINS BAILED
OUT ON APPEAL TO
The SUPREME COURT
Pete Stewart and Several
Other Henckman Worked
Day and Night to Obtain
Bondsmen

bond Of S5O0O.0 90; his attorneys have
filed notice of appealing the last to
the Supreme Court of Montana after
failing in an oral motion for a new
trial in District Court here.
After being sentenced to the pen
itentiary, or application of his at
torneys he was ordered held here fo-
a week pending the obtaining of the
appeal bond, which was finally OBJ
tanned by his good friends Pete Stew.
art and Rodney Salisbury after b
week of canvassing scores of parties.
The bond as approved by Judge S. f.
Paul is signed by Peter J. Stewart,
Charlie O'Brien, Andrew Johnson
Rodney Salisbury, A. w. Clay, w. D.
Timbrell and Joe. A. Kavon.
Lack of space prevents US from
commenting on the matter of getting
this man out of Jail and having him
foisted upon this community again
after the citizens of Sheridan County
had commenced to breath air that was
not befouled by his communicating
presence. Just what prompted these
bondsmen in signing this bond can
easiest be explained by a remark
made by Ellen Johnson, the house
keeper at the former Mig Collins
Chicken ranch" but which is now the
property of Rodney Salisbury, when
it is alleged that she practically yell
ed ON the street one day last week,
"they are going to get Mig out of
jail and mighty sudden, or there will
be q lot of those birds leaving town
in their shirttails." Well, the bonds
were signed and once again Rodney
Salisbury comes to the front in sup
port of Collins. This shows up just
what kind Of a sheriff Rodney Sal
isbury was, and what kind of a news
paper the Producers Moose is, and
has been, IN backing up Collins and
Salisbury from start to finish.
Whatever mask of hyprocracy that
that alleged newspaper has been
wearing was torn off in their last
weeks wall about Collins conviction.
It shows them up for just what they
are, and it backs up u claims and
contentious that if it were not for the
Producers Moose backing up outlaw
elements the conditions that have ex-
listed in Sheridan County for years
past would never have been tolerat-
ed.
Mig Collins transfer of title to the
Chicken ranch" in order to cover up
his property and prevented the pay
ment of the $4,000. 90 fine imposed on
him in addition to the three year pen
itentiary sentence, is not going to
hold water. Neither the deed or the
mortgage will invalidate the judg-
ment of 100000 which Sheridan
County now holds against Collins, as
there is a special provision in the law,
which has been tested i'm the Supreme
Court of Montana and there sus-
tanned, that a judgment for a ine
constitutes a lien on the property
from the day of the defendants first
arrest.
It merely means some more red
tape for the County Attorney who is
determined that this fine shall be
collected and paid into the County
treasury.
And this appeal to the Supreme
Court will mean a lot Of more red
tape for the County attorney before
Collins is finally ushered into the
Montana ~Penitentiary, which will
merely be a REPETITION of his admis-
sion to the North Dakota P~enitentiary
to which institution he was sent from
Fargo, on Sepember Both, 1921 to
serve a term of three years on q
charge of Grand Larceny.