The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-21
NEGRO HELD FOR
GRAND LARCENY
WILL WILLIAMS, WHO RODE TO
HOSPITAL IN AMBULANCE WITH
NEGRO KILLED WEDNESDAY
EVENING, CHARGED WITH TAX
ING MONEY.

Will Williams, a negro living at 214
Third street north and who rode in the
ambulance with Allen Johnson to the
hospital after that negro was shot on
Wednesday by Officer Charley Ander-
son, is held on a charge of grand
larceny. His preliminary examination
will be held this afternoon.
Williams was found with the wound
ed mans watch on his person after the
latter had been taken to the hospital.
and when asked about 1t by ChieR of
Police Bingham alleged that johnson.
a given 1t to him before during a
conscious interval. However the
police says that Johnson never talked
after being shot.
The prefering of charges against Will
liams grew out of his having posses :.
sion of the watch in question and testi-
many brought out at the inquest, held
yesterday afternoon.
Chief of Police Bingham went to
Williams after he learned that john
sons watch was missing and asked the
negro for it. He turned the timepiece
over to the chief and stated that john
son had $50 or $50. When Johnson
was taken to the hospital Williams
told the doctors that Johnson had that
amount Of money:
On the witness stand yesterday
liz dShSu dpOuC Ills lSlIlDR Tie CulGl
and the doctors about the money, VIII
liams swore that he had heard that
Johnson had that amount but did not
know for sure n did not see the
money or In fact any money that
Johnson had. Both the dead man and
Williams were together earlier in the
evening according to Williams testi-
mony.
When asked about the pocketbook
that was found away down in the
opening between the exterior and in
terror sides Of the ambulance, where
the window slides down when it IS
desired to open it, Williams testified
that the pocket5ook had dropped out
of the dying mans pecket onto the
floor. Williams sale that he was hold
ing Johnson on the cot with one arm
and reached down with the other and
recovered the pooketbook and laid 1t
on the window sill and that it fell in
to the opening. He stated tha: he did
no. have az. opportunity to look INFO 1t
and see if there was any money in 1t,
his n arm being engaged.
He testified, that when ne told the
doctors about the money Johnson had,
he spoke of the pocketbook and that
one of the doctors told him to go down
to the ambulance and get 1t but that
the driver said it would be impossible
to fish it out of the opening until the
ambulance was taken to the stables.
I took considerable fishing win a wire
to recover the pocketbook according to
the statement of the police.
Williams said he did not see a
watch chain with a charm made of a
$40 gold piece. but officer Anderson
testified that when assistance came to
him after he had shot Johnson and the
man was turned over on his back, he
saw the chain.
When asked at the inquest yesterday
why he got into the ambulance with
Johnson, Williams said that he and
Johnson were like brothers, being born
at the same place in Mississippi and
had known zach other personally for
twenty-five or thirty years.
williams preliminary was in pro-
gress this afternoon at the time of 60
ing to press.
When the police visited Johnson's
room at the Clements place they found
that everything had been removed,
even to the bed and that not n of
the mans possessions had been To-
Gated.