The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-11-11
AFFIDAVIT TELLS
LAMBERT VIEW
LOCAL SHOOTING
In Application for Writ Of Habeas
Corpus, Defendant In Murder
Case RceIses Version Alleged
Happenings.
SAYS WARNED THOMPSON
KEEP AWAY FROM HOME
Planned 10 Sell Home and Leave
chIekasha: Declared Friend Wis
tod Home at Night; Reoites
Tragedy Story.

Charles TX. lnmhrft, uccuheu ol
the murder OF Walter Thompson,
striking Rock Island shopman. Fri.
day afternoon made $1,000 bond for
appearance In district court to
answer 10 the charge.
His bond was signed by himself.
c. H. Bowlware. A. A. Lambert,
brother OF the defendant. and A. s.
Roberts. general manager Of the
Prairie Cotton oil company by which
corporation Lambert was employed
as night foreman. Immediately after
the approval OF the bond by L. G..
Reynolds. court clerk. Lambert was
released from the county Jail. lie
Immediately returned TO his home at
Sl9 III Reno avenue.
Lambert's story Is Told.
Lambert's story OF the affair and
his relai ors with Walter Thompson
his former intimate friend. is told
in an affidavit made D. the defend
ant. The affidavit is a part of the
petition for the writ of habeas
corpus. filed Immediately after the
conclusion OF the preliminary hear
ing Friday morning before Justice
II. l.. Grlgsby.
Lambert states In the affidavit
made part of the petition and filed
in the district court that on or
about the 18th day OF October, 1922,
he obtained information from his
nelghbors that one Walter Thomp-
son, who resided within about two
blocks of where this afflant resided,
had been on exceedingly friendly
terms with his wife, and had made
visits to his home In the night time
when affiant was at work.
"That this affiant and his family
we're neghbors and special friends
of the said Thompson and his fam
ily and had been associated together
for period of five or six years;
that after he obtained such informa-
tion he went to his wife and asked
her with reference to the truthful
ness Of such statements, and on or
about the nth day Of October 1922,
she informed him of her associa-
tions with the said Thompson.
"That on the same day this affiant
saw the said Thompson in the streets
in the Frisco addition, and then
asked him never to come to his
home again and advised the said
Thompson that his wife had told
him of his visits to his home in the
night time: the said Thompson i'm
medately turned and walked away
from this affiant without making any
statement, or any denial or any af-
firmance of the truthfulness of the
statement made by this affiant.
"Wanted Wife to Leave Him.
"That said Thompson, the month
of June, 1921, came to the house of
this affiant while affiant was at
work in the night time, and at
tempted to induce this atlantis wife
to abandon her husband and family
and leave with said Thompson, and
after this affiant's wife had de-
clined and refused to go away with
the said Thompson, the said Thomp-
son stated to this affiant's wife on
or about the 9th day of September,
1922, that he would kill this affiant
and he could then come to affiant's
house at any time without being
molested and without being COM
PEELED to persuade this atlantis wife
to abandon her home, husband and
children"
Lambert also states in the affi-
davit that, after a second conversa-
tion with his wife, they decided to
sell their property here and leave the
city and that a deal for the sale OF
the property was pending at the time
of the alteration.
Tells of Meeting Thompson.
The affidavit tells of Lambert
meeting Thompson on the streets Of
the city on the morning of the shoot
ing. He states that he had returned
from the Junior high school to which
place he had conveyed his daughter
that he came to town and was start
ing home when he saw Thompson
at the corner Of Fourth street ant
Chickasha avenue, where the shoot
ing occurred. Lambert states "tha
he did not see him until he wa'
within 12 feet Of the deceased; tha
when he looked toward the de
ceased, the deceased was looking a
him; that when he got within ST
or eight feet of the deceased, tn
deceased ran his right hand int