Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-05-15

rested last term, for doing a policeman
IN. And here was in q box at muir
der trial.
jackson runs a garage at Linn. One
Sunday night in November q mansion
was entered at Wearing, go miles off.
A dog gave the thieves away and they
had to clear. They got clean away by
car, but footman had the wit to ring
up the police. Result-all roads were
watched At two o'clock a. m. q power
full car was approaching Halidon
bridge. Two police stepped out with
torches and signalled the driver to
stop. The car slowed down, and some
one inside let fly. One policeman was
shot through the heart and the other
was winged. And the car was gone. But
the live man had got its number :.
Very well. The car was traced and they
found it eight hours later at Corker
JakSon's place. 1t wasn't his. Five days
before, it had come to him for repairs
And when the police got to the garage,
they found 1t clean and dry, with its
engine out on the bench. Well, that
seemed to prove that the fellow that
got the number had got it wrong, and
the police were just about to go empty
away, when one Of them noticed an
other car being washed. That would
have suited their book, but the numbers
we're wrong. STILL number plates can
be changed And the number plates
of both cars showed signs Of having
been moved. Wen, the second car wasn't
Jackson's-he'd got 1t to sell: so the
police got the owner up and told him
to look her over and say what he felt.
He was out for blood, of course, because
jackson had used his car. "HuIlo," he
says, heres a scrape on the near hind
wing" SO there was Not dent, but
q scrape-running down the edge Of
the wing. The car had brushed against
something doubt about that.
Three hours later, a tree was found
to be bruised-a tree in the drive Of
the mansion which thieves had entered
at Wearing the night before.
Well, they took the car to the tree,
and the scrape fitted In with the scar.
Jackson was arrested for murder that
When they searched him,
they found two keys for which he
couldn't account. One was the key Of
q house by Maidenhead. This had been
entered and burgled three weeks be-
fore. The thieves had got clear.
The first witness heard was the fell
low that owned the car dts wing was
therein court You didn't have to
wear glasses to see the scrape). He gave (
bis evidence pat, but counsel for the /
deIense crosS-examined and knocked
him about.
II know that scrape wasn't there
when left the car"
you hadn't seen 1t, you mean?"
Il should have seen It," says the I
oloke.
aBe careful. You looked over your
sar that Monday. Prior to that, what
was the last occasion on which you
looked over your carp"
II often look It over"
Searching for scrapes2"
Not for scrapes in particular. l
Know If I touch anything"
But you don't have q look II you
,hink no damage is done?"
Yes, I do-n touch anything"
How long ago is It since you touched
anything with that wing?"
I've never touched anything with
hat wing"
~Since you possessed that car, can
you tel me q single occasion, prior to
his on which you inspected that
ving2"
mot that wing in particuIar-no."
do you ever leave your car unat-
Occasionally.
If, during your absence, somebody
sse--S0u1e ether car had touched IT,
low would you know"
u think I should have noticed the