El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-23
SwindIer Of Ell Paso Mer-
chants Comes To Grief.
THE SAME OLD GAME
Worked At A Store In JuareZ, But the
Proprietor Was Too Shrewd To Be
Taken In and Caused the Arrest Of
the Culprit.

The exposure Of the fraud perpetrst-
Williams, printed exclusively in the
columns OF this paper last Wednesday
evening, has resulted in the arrest of
Williams at Juarez.
Before crossing the river, however,
Williams committed numerous offenses
on this side and the latest to be report
ed comes from the smelter.
THE SAME GAME AGAIN.
Williams or Dem went out to the
smelter yesterday and called at E.
Ssmbrano's store. He ordered q bill
of goods to the value of several hund-
red dollars from Sambreno and among
other things ordered Q large
quantity of Clipped beef
price charge for the sbeef and he
and Williams came to town to consult
Charley Lawrence.
Just before reaching town Williams
became nervous and said he would get
out OF the conveyance and meet the
merchant at the bank later. Sambrano
called on Lawrence and interrogated
him: m:concerning the beef He was much
excited on account of receiving such q
about it. Lawrence asked him to des-
cribe the man and he did 30. The des-
criptiOn fitted the man who had
swindled Lawrence few days
ago. Lawrence told SambainO to keep
the appointment with the man at the
bank and he would telephone the chief
of police and they would nab the man
at the bank.
Contrary to expectations the man
Juarez.
CAUGHT AT LAST
Williams, or w. Dem, which is the
name he gave in Juarez, appeared yes
terday morning, at the store of D. J.
Rich. Rich is also proprietor of the
Mexican Central hotel.
williams introduced himself as w.
Dem and explained that he had been
employed by Mr.. Spreckels to survey
q road "clear through" and his re-
marks indicated that the new road
Msaso Was to be an extension OF the Sierra
ssHe said he had five men in his party
and wanted to purchase supplies for
them. He wanted to know if Rich
would outfit him. Rich agreed and
goods to the value of $780,, were pur-
chased.
The Surveyor" asked for a duplicate
bill saying that he would take 1t to the
bank and get the money. He made an
in Ell Paso today. He also asked for q
room at the railroad hotel, which he
engaged, and he ate two meals at the
hotel.
The self styled civil engineer called,
a. Rich's store again this morning and
asked Rich to accompany him to the
bank in Ell Paso to receive the money
for the goods. He then went out on
business but said he would be back in
twenty minutes. During his absence
Rich telephoned to the First National
bank and was told that his customer
was fraud so far as was known.
The stranger came back to the store
at the appointed time. He came in
hurriedly and asked for the loan of
81 80, saying that he had bought q few
goods and needed q little change.
Rich refused to accommodate shim.
Williams became angry and walked
out of the store. He went north along
the railroad track toward FL Psso.
Rich sent a clerk after the man. He
was halted and an officer called,
and he now occupies cell in the Jua-
rez prison.
AS he was being taken
to the lookup Mrs. Goodman,
of the Hotel Porfirlo Diaz,
pointed at the prisoner and remark
ed:
'That is the man who beat me out
Of q board BILL I'D