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Surnames: Chambers, Stanely, Wilson
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Cheney Free Press, Cheney, WA, Spokane county, August 21, 1908.
CHENEY BOY GETS WISE IN SPOKANE
This is simply a case of a country boy from near Cheney wearing his sweetheart's watch
to town, getting drunk, meeting smarter people than he and being robbed, said J Stanley
Webster, deputy prosecuting attorney, in police court yesterday when Pearl Wilson, a young
woman who has managed a shooting gallery next to the Kalispell saloon on Front avenue, was
arraigned on the charge of having commintted larceny from the person in stealing a
woman's watch and chain from Roy Chambers, a bashful, verdant-appearing lad from near
Cheney.
The testimony of young Chambers was that he had become intoxicated and had met the
defendant in the Kalispell saloon, had bought drinks for her, and later adjourned to the
Coeru d' Alene saloon and had finally landed in the Pioneer lodging house, Front
avenue and Howard street, where he awoke to find the woman missing and $8 and $10 in money
and the watch and chain gone. He found the woman later and she did not return the
property to him. Then he told his troubles to the police.
Detective George Miles said he found the woman in the lodging house and obtained the watch
from her, she explaining that she had intended to teach the young man a lesson. The
defense contended that it could be proven that the accused had stolen the watch and that
on the next day, Saturday, the complainant was too much intoxicated to be postive as to
what had become of his watch.
The court bound the woman over to the superior court in $200 bonds--Spokesman-Review.