Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-03
LAMBERT THROWN INTO JAIL
Charge Against Former Davenport Man
is SubOrnatiOn of Perjury,
BOND PLACED At TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
Prisoner Was Released Once and Says
His latest Arrest IL the Result
of Refusal to Testify
Under Threat.

Frank w Lambert of Davenport, Neb.,
but more recently of Portland, Ore, is
again an inmate of the Douglas county
jail, on the charge of subornation of per-
jury in connection with the /. b. U. ranch
land fraud cases. He is being held in
$1,000 bonds on this charge in addition to
5000 bonds on his Indictment for con-
spracy in securing soldiers filings on the
lands in question, with Rev. George G.
Ware and Harry Welsh. Lambert's bond
is. therefore. now $4,000, which he is unable
to secure.
It will be remembered that Rev. George
G. Ware, president of the /. B. L. Ranch
company, gave bond in 5000 under the
indictment, and that Harry Welsh, also Of
Davenport, who was placed under similar
indictment, entered a plea OF guilty to
six of the nine counts against him, but
that sentence was deferred It is now
learned that Welsh has, on the advice of
his attorney, decided to withdraw his plea
of guilty, owing to later developments, and
will enter a plea of not guilty to the in
dictment in its entirety.
Lambert Charges Coercion.
The Lambert case has recently assumed
a new phase. in that he asked permission
of the federal authorities on Thanksgiving
day to be permitted to go to Deadwood,
ostensibly to see Mr.. Ware. This permlsL
sion was denied him, and about the same
time, according to Lambert's statement he
was asked by one of the special agents of
the land department to sign certain state
ment. This statement was in effect that
he had testified before the grand jury that
the soldiers whom he had secured to make
alleged illegal filings on lands within the
!. B. U. ranch enclosures were informed
that their leases were conditional, with
the additional feature that the filings were
for the benefit of Mr. Ware or the 1. B. u.
ranch, and that they should sell the lands
after proving up on them to Mr.. Ware for
$3.50 each.
Lambert maintains that he did not make
any such statement before the grand jury
but that all he did testify to was in effect
that the lands were leased to Ware, and
that there was no talk about the absolute
sale of the lands to Ware by the soldiers
| after final proof had been made. Lambert
| further intimates that when he fatty re-
fused to sign this prepared statement he
! was threatened with a little gun play by
the special agent. and that he was there
! upon placed under arrest again. arraigned
4 before Commissioner Anderson and bound
/ over to the nsxt term of the federal grand
| Jury under $500 bonds.
|, Lambert Was Released Once.
! 1t will be remembered that when Lambert
! was brought back from oregon it was TO
| appear before the grand jury to answer
| to the charge Of subornation of perjury. He
was placed under $1,000 bonds, which he
gave, and was released from arrest Upon
| his appearance before the grand jury the
/ bond became a nullity and the bondsmen
!
| even examined upon the matter Of suborna-
| ton of perjury, his function being merely
that of a witness before the jury in the
| Ware and 1. b. u. ranch cases. He was
subsequently indicted with Ware and Welsh
as a party to the conspiracy.
1t now appears that Lamberts re-arrest
| is based on the old charge of subornation
OF perjury, for which he was brought back
/ from Oregon.