The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-02-20

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return, which she did about 1880.
She appeared to the witnesses to be
very excited and exhausted. En-.
tering the apartment, she said, "On,
| want to go to bed, Pm awfully
tired" She went to bed and after
about thirty minutes took a bath,
again retiring. About nine o'clock
she got up to telephone. it was
testified, but did not talk, collaps-
ing at the instrument.
Placed back in bed, she soon said
she was all right and asked for a
drink Of water. She said Mrs. Ar
not left about $50 the next morn
ing.
Grossman Demanded Money
During conversation with Mrs.
Arnot, Mrs. Lindh said she declared
that since the March previous, Sam
Grossman had demanded money of
her several times, and once had a
gun and became angry because.
she would not help get it for him
and threatened if she would not
he would use the weapon on him
self. She seemed very nervous
during the evening, moving her
body, rolling her head sidewise,
rubbing her head and rubbing her
hands. For several months pre-
vious, the witness said, Mrs Arnot
had not been as tidy in appear
ance as had ben her custom.
On cross examination of the wit
ness. Attorney John S1attery
brought out that Mrs. Arnot had
brought a bottle and spoon to the
apartment with her and that at the
time of her bath had taken a tea
spoonful of the medicine in the
bottle, supposed to be bromidia,
which is said to have been pre-
scribed for her husband.
Glenn Crawford, district manr
ager for the H. Earl Clack com
pany, testified to a meeting with
Mrs. Arnot at the Grossman Motor
company at a time when an attach
ment was being served on the place
for Arnot. He said he was parked
across the street and Mrs. Arnot
climbed over him into the car and
demanded that he drive me home
quick" He said he did so and re-
turned totown only to find that she
also had returned, almost as quick
ly as he, though apparently on foot.
said he had told her part
of the property mortgaged to Ar
not had been removed from the
Grossman place and she had urged
him to try and find her husband.
She told him, Crawford said, that
Grosman had about all they (the
Arnots) had including the life in
5urance, and was trying to get
their home. He said she had be-
come increasingly nervous during
the year he had known her and
"the oldest woman he had
ever had any experience with"
Samuel l.. Rugg, secretary of
he chamber of commerce, told of
conversations with Mrs.
during one of which he said,
she wept. This, he said, was dur
ng a conversation regarding the
of d bank in which Mr.. Ar
lot was interested. He said her
sentences were connected.
WE Arnot On Stand
w. E. Arnot, mayor of Conrad,
vas on the stand all day Wednes-
lay as a witness for the defence.
Arnot said he based his belief
hat his sister-in-law was insane
her statements to him regard
ng his brothers death and SAID
knew she had a sister who was
He testified that, when he told
Irs. Arnot the insurance compan-
es required an autopsy before
hey would pay on his brothers
policies, she immediate
Y went upstairs and to bed. Later,
lie said, she called him and told
i'm:
THAT shouldn't be done. The
-ody is full of poison"
He said he asked her how she
new and she replied:
1T is. 1t is" and asked him 20
own and remove the body. He
aid he telephoned the officers at
ark River, n. Oak, and asked
hem to place a guard over the
He said, after telling him the
ody was full of poison, she ask
d.: why didn't we cremate that ,
ody? We should have cremated
lat body" /,
Arnot testified he had not men,
oned to the county attorney the !.
,atement Of the defendant to the
that they all have their
and on redirect examina-
explained that the reason was .
ecause there were so many ru- |
.ors he wanted to do a little in !
estigating of his own.
Five policies on the life of Ar :
1t, payable to Mrs. Arnot and ag- :
'egating $4,000, were placed in :
-idence, together with five fire in !.
policies on the Arnot :