Williams news., 1905-11-04
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS
Chas. Lambkin Works Off Forged
 Orders on Local Merchants

Last Saturday evening one Chas. Lambkin, who for short time past has been in the employ of James A. Johnson, one of our we'll known cattlemen, came into town and pro- ceeded to get busy with pencil and paper. So far as known he wrote an even half dozen orders purport- ing to be from MT. Johnson to our local merchants and professional men. Between 8 and 9:3O that evening Lambkin, whose name be- lies his acts, made tour of some of the business houses: presenting his bogus orders.
 It appears that last Monday week he came to town from the Bar Cross and going to Salzman's store, pre- sented the following order:
 Oct. 23, 1905. MI
 Give man a pair of shoes and five dollars. 1 am at Bar Cross and have no check book with me.
 Jim Johnson.
 No hesitancy was felt about the matter and the amount was charged up to MT. Johnson's account.
 During the week Lambkin had been employed by M. Reneke gath ering his potato crop. On Saturday night he became bold and the fraud he had perpetrated as above not having been discovered, started out on a wholesale scheme to get rich quickly. Going to Poison Brothers store the order he presented called for $5 and a suit of underclothing. At Joe Johnston's his order only called for $5 cash, while at Babbitt Brothers he secured the regular $5 and some choice steak. The order presented there was as follows:
 Oct. 2S, 1905. MT. B. Brothers
 Please give man $5 and 50 cents of good stake. I am out in the country about 9 miles a hunting beef and I will be in Monday
 Jim Johnson. P.S. This man is working for me. Being asked to sign his name on the order he did so, signing Sam Free. (It may here be stated that there is man in MT. Johnson's employ by that name).
 Shortly thereafter John Doyle, one of the employees under Manager Teeple, confided his misgivings to MT. Teeple and followed the Lamb kin down the 'line." He soon be- gan going the pace on the money he had procured, and after he had been watched time by MT. Teeple also, the latter went to the opera house where the marshal and the justice of the peace were enjoying the show and told them his sur misses as to the orders being fakes. In the meantime Messrs. Teeple and Salzman began comparing notes and they were thoroughly con- vinced the orders were forgeries. Marshal Kennedy at once proceeded to hunt up the man and discovered him sitting in the Delmonico res taurant busily engaged in writing. Thinking he might be writing more orders the marshal waited till he had finished and left the place, when he placed him under arrest, and upon searching Lambkin, found two more, which read as follows:
 Oct. 28, 1905. MT. Melick-
 Please give man $5 and some medicine for a fever. My wife has a fever every other day. I will be in Monday to settle for this. l am at the Bar Cross.
 Jim Johnson. P.S. This man is working for me.
 Oct. 2S, 1905. MT. Dr. Raymond
 Please let man have $5 and some medicine for d fever. 1 have fever every other day. I am at the Bar Cross and have no check book with me. Jim Johnson. P. S. This man is a working for me. Being seen in the act of writing tho 1atfarc fhara wac m cho pca for