August – Sometime during the month, Orion wrote Sam with accusations that Charles Webster had defrauded people with the Watch Co. stock, even his own mother-in-law, Pamela Moffett, Orion’s sister. The Independent Watch Co. was exposed as fraudulent in July [Powers, MT A Life 466]. Sam did not want to believe that Webster was a thief but pressured him to make the investments good, which eventually he was able to do (See Aug. 29 entry).