Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-03-15

tllS SIdle p~CiltilSlIldly last oulll-
mer for that act, was designated
as he sat in the courtroom under
guard of the county undersheriff.
Lewis was brought from Deer
Lodge as a witness for the defend
ant, although he had been named
in the original information as a
witness for the state.
After establishing the fact of
the robbery, the county attorney
waded through a morass of OBJ
jections imposed by C. C. Rowan
and w. L. Hyde, defense counsels,
to prove the fact that Milo Walk
er accompanied Lewis on his get
away trip from Bridger, that he
was in Lewis company at the
time and place of capture near
Elk Basin.
Three motions to dismiss were
made during the trial by Mr..
Rowan, one at the outset of the
hearing as soon as the jury had
been seated, n as soon as the
state had completed its testimony,
and one before the case was sum-
married. for the jury. The mo-
tons, charging technical flaws in
the states case and general film
siness of evidence. were not sus-
tanned.
Witnesses called upon by the
state were L. j. Colness, F. L.
Clark, motorists on the road be-
tween Bridger and Elk Basin who
~professed to have observed Walk
er and Lewis together in the Ford
coupe later found abandoned near
the scene of the capture; T. E.
Keefer, superintendent at Elk
Basin who sold gasoline to the
pair; Marshal w. A. Chevalier,
who claimed to have heard Walk
er say, after capture, that he
hoped the "shock of this deal will
off my old man; John
Morse, Bridger constable, who
testified that Walker had wished
Sheriff Albert would have come
closer to that shack so | could've
cut his CUTS out with the .38";
James Fairgrieve, former under
sheriff; Frank Blackburn, sheriff
of Park county, Wyo., who helped
in the capture; Howard H. Hall
and L. R. Mondt; John Albert,
former sheriff, who appeared
twice on the witness stand.
AS the state rested its case, At
torney Rowan demanded that Mr..
Conwell place Lewis on the stand,
as Lewis name had been endorsed
as a states witness. The county
attorney objected on the grounds
that Lewis might be not only an
unwilling, but possibly dishonest
witness, and the objection was sus-
tanned.
Tuesday afternoon the court
heard witnesses for the defense,
George O~verstreet, James Lewis
and Milo Walker himself. Busily
gum, the slight, brown
eyed Lewis told his version of the
affair. In a soft, glib voice he de-
scribed his prior acquaintance
with Walker, denying that Milo
had helped him to plan the rob-
On the morning preceding
the holdup, he said, he had set
Milo on the road to Casper, Wyo.,
and had returned to Bridger. On
his way south from Bridger after
the robbery he said that he had
discerned Milo walking alone on
the highway, that he had invited
him to accompany him, that he
had then forced him to drive the
coupe by threatening Milo with a
gun, that he had forced Milo to
accompany him until the time
when law officers caught up with
them near Elk Basin.
Milo, black haired, acquiline
faced man Of 80, took the stand to
c%orroborate Lewis story. On the
morning of July 6, he said, hitch
on the road to Casper was
bad, and he was returning to
Bridger afoot when he met Lewis
driving south on the highway. Ac-
an invitation to ride, he
found himself under influence of
Lewis .38 revolver introduced as
evidence in the court) and that he
could not detach himself thereaf-
ter from Lewis, despite his alleged
complaints that "Jeez, I don't
wanna be seen with you, or I'll be
in it as deep as you are" Driving
on the way to Elk Basin
were issued by Lewis, said Walker.
Courts instructions to the jury
we're prepared in absence of the
IL good men and true, who were
excused while Judge Goddard
evolved a set of instructions from
the lengthy and technical argu-
ments of Counsels Hyde and
and County Attorney Con-
we'll.
This morning the Judge read
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