, 1907-07-24
HE PROVES
THE AL|B|
DAVE WILLIAMS, ALIAS cHILEs,
SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN IN KAN
sAS CITY JAIL IN MARCH.
County Attorney and Attorney for De.
PENDANT Return from Kansas City,
Where They Examined Witnesses
Touching Abb, Both Being Con-
WINGED of Its Correctness.

County Attorney Downey and Will
McMurray, attorney for Dave vii,
liams, returned this morning from
Kansas City, where they had been to
take dispositions in the motion of Will
liams for discharge under alibi. Will
liams is in the county Jail charged with
~confidencing a couple OF Swedes out of
of March 81, while on a train between
this city and Cheyenne, and claimed at
the time that he was innocent of the
crime, alleging that he was in Jail on
that date.
Both Are Convinced.
The attorneys went to examine the
prison officials and others At Kansas
City touching the claim of Williams,
and when they returned this morning
both expressed the conviction that
Williams was indeed there at the time
of the commission Of the crime here.
1t was shown to the satisfaction of the
county attorney that the man was in
Jail there from the 21st to the 25th
and could not have been here on the
night of the 23d. His partner, Charles
WATSON, who is also charged here, is
now out on bail for the September
term of the district court. Williams
could not give the bail required.
Worked Confidence Game.
The two Swedes were on their way
to Cheyenne from the tie camp at
Keystone. They were approached on
the cars by a couple of strangers, who
asked them for a loan of $3.50 for a
few hours, saying that the money
would be returned at Cheyenne, as
they had a debt to meet there and
could not wait until time to get the
money. They gave the tie camp men
a check on a bank in Butte, Mont, for
s. 1000 as security for the loan. Later
it was shown hat no such bank ex,
listed.
Parted With the Cash.
The Swedes gave them the money
and at Cheyenne they disappeared.
Later Williams, alias Chiles, and Was
son we're arrested at st. Joseph, Mo-,
on a lesser charge, the officers agree
ing to deliver them to the Wyoming au'
thorities. Deputy Sheriff Thirkeldsen
went first to st. Joseph n then to
Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri.
with a requisition from the governor
of Wyoming, Governor Folk signing
the requisition and the st. Joseph
chief Of police delivering the men into
the hands of the officers.
"Queer Stuff in Grip.
At st. Joseph the room occupied by
the two men at a hotel was entered
and their valise taken. In this were
blank bank forms on a large number
of banks, with rubber stamps, dating
and %cancelling machines and practi'
cally a whole bogus check" outfit, the
banks running from British Columbia
to the Gulf Of Mexico. WATSON and
Williams claimed the valise did not
belong to them, but it was found in the
room they had been occupying, and it
was considered tirst-rate evidence.
One Positively Identified.
The two Swedes positively identified
Williams as one of the confidence men,
but were not SO sure of WATSON, and
the latter was allowed to go on a small
bond. He Immediately left town. VIII
liams was held and is still in the coun-
ty Jail.
County Attorney Downey was not
prepared to say at noon just what his
course would be. He was convinced,
he said, that the alibi had beer estab'
lished, and that it would be his duty
as an officer to discharge the men IN,
der the information upon which they
are held, but he would not take action
for a day or two, in an effort to find
some other means Of holding Williams.
Has Court Record.
The latter has a court record, with
out doubt, and is familiar with legal
processes. But for the trip to Kansas
City, his attorney believes the man
would have beer sen to the peniten-
tiary for the confidence game.