The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1895, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1895. NEW' SENSATIONS IN THE FREEMAN CASE, Peculiar Incidents Described tothe Federal Grand Jury. MARVIN IS STILL FREE. He Avoided the Scylla of Contempt and the Charybdis of Perjury. DAMAGE SUITS IN PROSPECT. They Are Threatened Against the Westinghouse Company by Its Own Witnesses. g the entire afternoon session ye he Federal Grand Jury was en- “in probing into the charges of . subornation of perjury, briber conspiracy and intimidatio is unworthy of belief. He added that he believed that none of the three persons | named by him had ever told the truth in | connection with anytbing that has trans pired here. He a charged Warren F Freeman with having forged his nameto | an alleged affidavit which purports to con- | tradict a deposition made by witness pre- | viously in Los Angeles. s e MARVIN STILL FREE. Declines to Testify on the Ground That He Would Criminate Himself. Marvin L. Freeman refused to answer | questions put to him yesterday morning | before Commissioner Heacock in the | Freeman-Wstinghouse case, despite the | ruling of United States Circuit Judge | McKenna that he must do so, yet he is, and is likely to continue, a free man, as far as any punishment for contempt of court is concerned. Iutin order to escape the penalty for disobeying the order of the | court, the witness was compeiled to con- fessothat he would criminate himself if he | answered certain questions, While the | proceedings had no direful results, they | were intensely interesting. Among the | | attentive auditors was United States Mar- | shal Baldwin, who was evidently present | in expectation of having the task assigned | him of serving a writ of attachment on | Marvin L. Freeman. Attorney Mackaye, counsel for the { ground that he had refused to answer the | by Attorney Mackaye: | b | contempt. | Marvin L. Freema COMNISSIONER EEACOCK, IN WHOSE COURT A GREAT DEAL OF\ IMPORTANT TESTIMONY IS TAKEN. i ched from life by a * Call’’ artist yesterday.] of witnesses brought egainst Attorney H. S. Mackaye, Warren P. Freeman and W but from the trend of the inveati is believed that if any indictments e returned they will be against H. S. Mackaye and Warren P. Freeman for intimidating witnesses. Walter K. Freeman, the plaintiff in the Freeman-Westinghouse patent case, who brought the alleged corruption to the notice of the Federal authorities, was the first witness summoned to appear before the secret investigating body, which since its last sitting has lost the valuable ser- vices of H. J. Summerhayes, the electrical expert of the Grand Jury, because, like the parrot which attempted to take a fall out of the Tammany tiger, he talked too much. The witness reviewed his past work in | the electrical field and gave the general situation in electrical matters to show the importance of the issue involved and the temptation to use every possible means to win. Under the guise of showing the gen- eral reputation of Warren P. Freeman he went into the career oi the alleged con- spirator and brought to light some new and startling testimony. Among other things he charged that Warren P. Free- man was one of the principals in the | notorious and fraudulent electric sugar re- fining deal, the center of whose operations was Philadelphia, and for }mrticipminn in which his co-conspirator Friend is now serving a sentence of nine years and six months in Sing Sing Prison. Warren P. Freeman takes pride in being d as “Doc” and having the gen- atation of being a regu credited healer of the sick, but Walter, in his testimony vesterday, stated that the professional 'title was acquired at short notice and without the slightest right to it. The first the witness knew of the new dignity assumed by his brother through a letler, dated April 21,1881, in which Warren requested to be addressed as Dr. Warren P. Freeman. Then Walter K. told of forgeries he al- leged Warren P. had committed while in the employ of the Wheeler & Wilson Ma- chine Company at Albany, Y., and which, he claimed, were prevented from becoming a public scandal by the father, who sacrificed a competence to pay various forged notes altered by Warren. Witness also went over the present asso- ciation of Warren nd said the latter had urged him to join the Westinghouse Company agzainst the Fort Wayne Eiectri- cal Corporation, asserting there was §50,000 in it for witness. Alexander H. I by means of the *f scheme used by H. 8 liam Steele. The general purport of their whole ar- rangement, he suid, to cause him such great mental distress as to confine him to bed with an attack of nervons prostration. He stated that he knew ‘Warren P. Freeman, his brother, was auite capable of concocting the necessary scheme to make it appear that he had voluntarily, or through offers of money. agreed 1o change his former t Y, but that he had not done so and aid not intend to do s0. He also averred that since he came to San Francisco at the requast of Warren, resumably on a pleasure trip, he had been by trick and device subjected to all kinds of humiliations. He further testified that for a long time after he arrived in San Francisco H. S, Mackaye masqueraded as William Steele and pretended to be a capitalist and able to invest $100,000 in the rubber company. ’ rubber company Mackaye, alias Wil- Warren P. Freeman, Wallace E. Freeman and H. 8. Mack since nis arrival in this serted that he had come to the m that Warren P. Freeman was rthy of belief; that Wallace E. Free- man consented to commit perjury for thé money be was to be paid for doing so, ana that he is merely a tool acting under the instructions of both Warren P. Freeman and H.’S. Mackaye, and that H. 8. Mackaye was | | Westinghonse Company, began by asking { Marvin L. Freeman to answer the question he had previously declinede,0 answer. It | was as to whether or not he had seen nduction coils or a converter in Brookly: | in the posse: the plaintiff, in Chicago. | Aiter a long period during which the | witness was evidently meditating as to | how to best frame his reply he said, much to the surprise of all except the few who | were aware of the course he intended to | pursue. 1 refuse to answer the ground that if I answer ef | would tend to criminate me. | Mackaye—In what way would it incriminate you? on of Walter K. Freeman, , as he had previously testified f“msuon on the ther yes orno it |J. L. Boonme, counsel for witness—Will you | . and Wallace E. Freeman. the witness to show that he had been lured into this district, and further that counsel for witness has no authority for atiempting to state what proceedings might, would or should be taken by the Westinghouse Company. Attorney Mackaye then asked witness whether cr not he had seen Walter Freeman experiment with or use induction coils prior to 1887 and whether he had seen | such apparatus or invention at various specified places. To all such questions witness refused to answer on the same first question. Then counsel for defend- ant tried another tack. He asked witness to state what he knew about the reputa- tion of Walter K. Freeman for veracity. Witness—As I understand that question I cannot say that I know anything about it. It has always been hearsay with me. After a repelition of the question in another form and an objection by Attorney Church, Mr. Platttook up the examination on the same line and finally elicited the following reply : g It bas alw; been bad, as T have heard it diseuss=d only by H. S. Mackaye, War- ren P. and Wallace i, Freeman.” Then came the following interrogatory “State whether or not from your own | experience you would believe his statement | under oath.” | _Witness—I never had cause not to be- hevelhim until coming to San Francisco. This closed the direct examination of witness, and Atterney Church began his cross-examination, taking prompt and full adv: e of going into the history of the events with which Marvin L. Freeman bas | been connected during the past month. | This was accomplished by the opening | made by the defense when it attempted to | attack the reputation of Walter K. I‘reed- i an, man. In this connection all the f incidents detained in k affidavit, published were brought out, and porated in the patent a strong point for plaintiif. As the plea made by the witness that | v answering certain guestions he would | incriminate himself is a constitutional right, it exempts him from the charge of | In view of the facts no further steps will be taken by the counsel for the | Westinghouse Company to force bim to | gally punish him | testify for them or to le; for refusing to do so. | Marvin’s cross-examination will close | to-day, and then Alexander H. Freeman | will be calied to the stand by the counsel for the defendant. 1t is understood that he will also refuse to testify in behalf of | defendant and will, in_all probability, fol- Jow the course pursued by Mar; Mean- while both witnesses are drawing a per | diem from the Westinghouse Company. g PLATT AGGRIEVED. He Denles That He Ever Attempted | to Interfere With a Jury. Attorney Horace Piatt feels considerably aggrieved over the liberty he claims was taken with his name in the affidavit of in which it was al- leged that Platt had told Wallace E. that he had fixed the Federal Grand Jury so that no indictment would be returned Mackaye, Warren P. or Wal- | In an interview yester- | E. Freem Mr. Platt said : erence to the second-hand statement | eman’s afiidavic that Wallace | hat 1 had arranged | desire to state I have | near any member of the Grand Jury ¢ begun 1o ta i y 1n the maf- n'd not s mber of any . shape or form have I dc \pted to manage this matter be- y entirely upon s in be- Wallace E. Freeman denies having | made any such statement to Marvin L, | Ireeman or to any one, and states he will 2o before the Grand Jury and make such denial, | HEAVY DAMAGE SUITS. | Attorney Boone May Bring Them Against the Westinghouse | Company. Even with the hearing before Commis- sioner Heacock at an end and the final disposition of the charges now pending e the Federal Grand Jury there is to | be no cessation of the legal warfare in con- nection with the Freeman brothers, ac- | cording to the statement of John L.| Boone, the legal adviser of Marvin L. and Alexander H. Freeman. | As soon as the taking of depositions | before Commissioner Heacock is con- | cluded, Mr. Boone says he intends to | begin damage suits on behalf of histwo | clients against the Westinghouse Com- | any, Attorney H Mackaye, Warren He will ask | | | | | ATTORNEY J. [Sketched by a B. CHURCH. “Call” artist.) allow the witness to consult with me before he | is compelled o answer the question? | Mackaye—Certainly 1f you allow your re- | marks 10 go on the récord. | Boone—As counsel for the witness T will stat o > the ground on which the witness now de- | s to answer the question, viz.: that an answer either ves of no wouid tend to inerimis | nate him. In April, 1 ic gave his deposi- | tion in this cese and ed the facts at that | time as they appear on the record. This depo- tion was_faken in a certain district of me[ United States. Subsequently by means of | threats and offers of - ioney he was induced to | come to this aletrict, where by means of undue influence, threats and trickery, he was induced to sign an affidavii in which it was stated that the tes- | timony he had herciofore given was | not troe. He has now heen placed upon the | stand in this district, where the afidavit was obtained, to be re-examined upon the same | matter, regarding which he has twice deposed. 1f Lie should contirm his testimony os hereto- | | the American Kennel Club, at the Six- for $100,000 in each case. It will be| claimed that both brothers were made to | suffer intense mental anguish by reason of | the alleged frauds and misrepresentations | practiced upon them by the parties who | are to be made defendants to the suit, in | the efforts to induce them to change their testimony so as to favor the Westinghouse Company. A LOVER OF THE DOG. The Sceretary of the American Kennel Club ¥s Among Western Sportsmen. Last eyening Clarence Haight and H. Bier, the president of the Pacific Kennel Club, left this City for the purpose of meeting A. Viedenburg, the secretary of teenth-street station, Oakiand. Mr. Vied- | from Mayor Sutro of b | the library,and then | that would be too many with the $2: s the result of his association with | fore given in thi: would _undoubtedly be subject to & criminal prosecution upon the | part of the parties who are now endeavoring | to take Lis deposition for having made an | enburg has contemplated a Western trip for several months, with the object in view of straightening out kennel matters eflidavit contrary to his former deposition, | 0% this coast and meeting the sportsmen jdif be should “answer contrary he would be | Who are interested in kennel affairs. The isble to criminal proceedings on the other P;c!lf‘u;h}(exmel.Clnb has called a meeting ide. 2 of al e prominent sportsmen’s clubs of Horace Platt, assoc v k- | this Ci b 2 pauy desires to state in reply to counsel for | dental Hotel in the near future and ex- witness that in the proceedings before the | Change ideas on questions regarding thor- United States Circuit Court Judge McKenna | oughbred dogs and kennel matters in gen- states there was nothing in the statement of | eral. THE GOVERNOR EMPHATIC Says $250,000 Is the Ultimate Limit for the Affiliated Colleges. AT A MEETING OF REGENTS. Some Doubt as to Whether the Legis- lature Contemplated One or More Buildings. The regents cf the University of Califor- nia held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, and in addition to the transaction of a large amount of routine business, discussed the number of buildings for the proposed Affiliated Colleges to be erected on the site given by Mayor Sutro. Governor Budad made hisappearance and took his seat among the regents. Califor- nia's chief executive was bundled up in a heavy naval overcoat, and his sallow face and disheveled hair added to the general effect of a weakness which has lingered since his severe illness. All other business was suspended for im- mediate consideration of the prospective building or buildings for the Afiiliated Colleges. J. B. Reinstein, the new member of the board, expressed his opinion that the dis- cussion of expenditures upon the recently ucce_rted site ought properly to be deferred until the title to the property had been more thoroughly investigated. Judge Wallace declared: ““There is not a piece of land in San Francisco with a cleaner title than that, and there are abso- lutely no claimants. It was derived by Mexican grant, that has been passed upon by the United States, and there is no doubt about it whatever.” As to the ultimate erection of the Sutro library building near the site for the col- leges, Governor Budd thought it would be a good idea to get an expression in writing intention to build n the event of his | death the Sutro heirs would not be able to | avoid the Mayor’s present purpose. The Governor added that he has the utmost confidence in the sincerity of Mr. Sutro’s ntentions, but he said there is no telling what heirs may do. It is his impression that an agreement on the part of the uni- Vi v to erect buildings to the value of 000 on the site, with the understand- Mr. Sutro is to build a library on joining lot, would in 1tseif form an agreement that could be enforced. or Sutro told me,” said Judge ‘that he was willing that he should be enjoined from putting his library some- whe & The regents turned their attention to the interpretation of the legislative act | providing for buildings grouped together for the Afliliated Colleges. The “voint raised by Judge Wallace was that, if the wording of the act were not conformed to, the appropriation might not be paid. To this, Governor Budd said: “‘Couldn’t we, Judge, have one great big building, with a little building on one side for a dissecting room, and on the other side another little building for a tooth-pulling room? Then we would have buildings grouped to- gether.” The attorney of the board was very em- phatic in his opinion_that the Legislature intended that there should be one building for each of the colleges, or else what did they mean by saying ‘‘buildings for the Afliliated Colleges, to wit,” and then enu- merating them. Such an interpretation would necessitate seven buildings, but | nearly all the regents were agreed {hat at their disposal, 3 Governor Budd was on his feet again and made the surprising announcement that in accordance with a sort of hurry-up act of the Legislature matters must not be allowed to drag. “lwanttocall the at- tention of this board,” he said, ‘%0 the fact that the statute says that half of the 0,00 must be expended during the forty-seventh fiscal year or before January 1, 1896, and the other half before January 1,1897. The granite for the buitding can be obtained from the quarry at Folsom at cost and the brick from the State Asylum’s bricl rd at Napa, so we would get practi- cally a $350,000 building for $250,000. “I will say now that I will never sign a bill to expend a cent more than the $2: on the Affiliated College buildings.” “Well, Dr. Cole,” jocularly remarked Judge Wallace when the accustomed calm bad settled upon the staid regents after the Governor's stirring little speech, “you would like to lave your building as close to the law building as possible, wouldn’t you?” No, sir,” replied the head of the medi- cal college, “I would not.” I would want it as far from it as possible. The less we doctors have to do with lawyers the better.”” Then the man who would avoid lawyers held & chummy, whispered conversation with Judge Havens, after which he an- nounced that the law college and the med- ical college favored the erection of three buildings. But further discussion was stopped by a motion to request the Attorney-General to send as soon as possible his intepreta- tion of the act. A deputation from the Mechanics’ In- stitute and from the Merchants’ Associa- tion was informed that the board would be too busy. So the attempt to urge the acceptance of the Wilmerding School of one of the sites offered by Mayor Sutro was not made. President Kellogg informed the board that J. H. Rosewald had left the university $300 a year for the assistance of worthy students. Dr. Charles A. von Hoffman, formerly adjunct in the medical department, has been made assistant professor of gyne- cology. Director Holden of the Lick Observatory has been given a leave of absence for one month without loss of pay. He is at Santa { Barbara under medical care. Mrs. Walter Magee, wife of the physical director at Berkeley, has been made in- structor in the woman’s gymnasium, with pay at $395 a year, her services being re- quired three days in the week. The financial committee of the board offered some little time 2go the sum of 350,000 for the Johnson property on Sut- ter street, between Kearny and Mont- gomery, and the executors of the estate accepted the offer, subject to the approval of the Probate Judge. The regents sanc- tioned their action yesterday. If the pur- chase is consummated the income from the building will be added to the fund for the Wilmerding school. Proiessor Harold Whiting, who met his death with all his family in the Colima | disaster, has by the terms of his will left $20,000 to the university, to be used in the | pbysics and science department,with which he was connected. Professor Corey, head of the electrical department of Berkeley, in a communica- tion to the board informed them that the college buildings on the campus could all be connected for electrical lighting from the plant now in use and at a cost of only $560. The board accordingly decided to appropriate that amount. Arthur Rodgers, President Kellogg and Columbus Bartlett were appointed a com- mittee to draft resolutions upon the death of George J. Ainsworth, formerly a mem- ber of the present board. A long discussion upon the advisability of exchanging a piece of land in the Lick Observatory domain remote from the ob- servatory for a similar amount of land very near the buildings on the west slope of Mount Hamiiton came to no head. It was argued by Judge Wallace and others that the exchange would remove the line of private property a half mile from the buildings and make provision against fire more complete. The following regents were present: Governor James H. Budd, John C. Lynch, Martin Kellogg, J. B. Reinstein, Columbus Bartlett, A. S. Hallidie, J. F. Houghton, J. West Martin, G. T. Marye Jr., Albert Mil- ler, T. G. Phelps, Arthur Rodgers, Chester Roweli, C. W. Slack, W. T. Wallace. LARSEN’S FATAL RAZOR. Suicide of a People’s Home Savings Bank Depositor Under Curious Circumstances. Frederick Larsen, a former employe of Fair’s ranch, was fonnd in his room, in the rear of 279 Jessie street, yesterday after- noon with his throat cut from ear to ear. He had locked himself in, 2nd it was nec- essary for Policemen Fraher to break open the door. Larsen had used a razor, and the head was almost severed from his body. For some time he had been out of work, and he had hired a room for $1 per week. At one time he was a laborer at the Pacific Rolling Mills. A singular thing about Larsen’s self-de- struction is that he had considerable money and was not in any fear of im- mediate want. There was found on him a | certificate of deposit on Wells, Fargo & | Co.’s bank for $120. Besides this there was a receipt from Attornev W. W. Allen for two accounts with the People’s Home Savings Bank. Larsen had turned these People’s bank claims over to Mr. Allen just the dav before. It is thought that his fear that he would never realize anything on his deposits in the insolvent bank made bim despondent. He was about 45 years of age. CALIFORNIA MERCHANDISE, TheMariposa Leaves To-Morrow Loaded With Products of This State. + The steamer Mariposa will sail for Syd- ney, N. S. W., via Honolulu, Apia and | Auckland, to-morrow, with an un-| usually heavy cargo and a full passenger list. There is nothing unusual in this, however, were it not for the fact that nearly the entire cargo is the product of California. There is not a hundred tons of Eastern goods in the entire ship, and this | is all the more remarkable, as great quan- tities of stuff from New York and Chicago £0 monthly to Australia, New Zealand and | Samoa. On this occasion, however, all the places mentioned have ordered their goods of California manufacturers. Among the cargo there are over 200 bales | of hops and an immense quantity of | broom corn and broom handles. There | are also 3500 doors, manufactured in Cali fornia mills, and 600 tons of canned goods, | principally fruits grown and packed by | | California orchardists. A peculiar feature of the shipments is over 500 cases of green apples, which the shippers expect to_be Tipe and in good condition by the time they reach Auck- land and Sydney. Then there is lumber for Samoa, onions for every port on the route, California wines.for Sydney and Melbourne and a large quantity of fruits | and vegetables for Honolulu. A foolish story was started last Saturday and published in some of the papers to the effect that the Mariposa was going to take 1000 tons of wheat to Australia. In the first place there was not room on the steamer last Saturday for lifty tons of any | kind of merchandise, and in the second | Australia is shipping wheat to England | herself in large quantities. Purser Smith | of the steamer laughed when he heard the | story and said some one had been having | a joke with the boys. *‘The Marivosa isa full ship,” said be, “and we cannot take | all the freizht that is offering. California | is in the lead and 1 hope and trust she will | stay there. Our goods are gaining in pop- | ularity in Australia every day, and I think the time isnot fardistant when the Oceanic | steamers will be carrrying nothing but | California-made goods.”” Dr. Milan Soule will 2o out as surgeon on | the Mariposa. He was for years on the | Alameda and latterly was on the Australia nmm“F to Honolulu. His ‘ylace on the Australia was taken by Dr. W. A. Grover. | vestigation that the stock had been trans- AGAINST AGENT STATELER, Special Trustee Chetwood Asks the Federal Courts to Enjoin Him. USE MADE OF THOMAS' STOCK. Grave Charges Against the Ex-Presi- | dent of the California Na. tional Bank. Injunction proceedings have been com- | menced in the United States Circuit Court | by the California National Bank and its spedial trustee, John Chetwood Jr., against Thomas K. Stateler, general passenger | agent of the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company, to prevent him from acting in the capacity of agent for the styckholders. In support of the complaint Chetwood filed an affidavit yesterday, through his attorney, A. W. Thompson, which charged | Stateler and R. P. Thomas, ex-president of | the bank. with conspiring to prevent the | collection of a judgment against Thomas | for about $200,000 on his stock. | According to Chetwood Stateler was | elected agent at a meeting of stockholders in July, 1894, by the vote of President to 1020 shares out of a total of 2000 shares. The judgment against Thomas was ren- dered last November and Chetwood avers | that *‘to evade the collection”” Thomas | filed a petition in insolvency in December ings for the time being. On a certiorari hearing Chetwood was ordered by the Su- preme Court to desist from further in- solvency proceedings against Thomas. Subsequently Stateler had an order is- sued by the San Francisco Superjor Court requiring Chetwood to show chuse why Stateler should not have all the money of the bank turned over to him as agent for the stockholders. The Superior Court of this county, however, decided adversely to Stateler and he promptly appealed again to the Supreme Court, the last appeal be- ing still pending. in his charge of conspiracy Chetwood recalls a voluntary visit once made hy Thomas to his office, Chetwood’s attorney being present, and also Thomas’ conversa- tion at the time. According to Chetwood Thomas expressed his belief that Chet- wood would recover judgment, but that it would be collected out of the other de- fendants—two other ofhicials of the bank— and that he would be execution-proof him- self in case judzment was entered against him. Thomas added, Chetwood avers, that he owned about one-half the stock of the bank and would divide it with Chet- wood provided he was dismissed from the action. The proposition was that Chetwood and Thomas were to profit equaily by any jusgment_obtained out of the other défendants. This proposition Chetwood says he refused to entertain and thereupon Thomas threatened that it would be impossible to coliect anything from him as *‘he was execution-proof,” and ‘as a stockholder would control matters and dispose of all his stock,” so that nothing would be recovered from him, and, besides, he would get ore-half the benefit of any judgment collected from the other defendants anyway. The charge that Stateler was elected by the vote of Thomas’ stock is supported by the affidavits of Receiver S. P. Young and Stockholder W. K. Vanderslice, who were resent at a meeting of stockholders in May, 1893, when Thomas and his friends | Thomas’ delinquent stock, which amounted | first voted the delinquent stock in favor of Thomas’ choice despite the protests of Chetwood and others. The part in the bank’s affairs finally taken by Attorney R. B. Mitchell, on be- half of Thomas, Stateler and Dowling, is in the Alameda County Superior Court | also referred to by Chetwood. and that ata meeting of Thomas’ creditors | subsequently he was chosen as Thomas’ | -assignee. | The judgment was for about $140,000 principal and $60,000 interest on unpaid assessments. 7 The startling allegation is made by Chetwood tbat in the list of Thomas’ A RAILROAD MAN'S FALL. E. M. Railton, Agent at East Oaklana, Loses His Position. Edward M. Railton, agent of the South ern Pacific Company at East Oakland, has assets the 1020 shares of the bank stock did | been dismissed from the company’s em- not appear, and that he discovered on in- ferred after the July meeting to D. E. Dowling, an employe of Thomas—a trans- | counts. ploy on accourt of a shortage in his ac- Last April there was found a s_hurume of $800, but he then told the Na- fer beld to be void because made without | tional Surety Company, which had given consideration. In his efforts to obtain possession of this stock and to have Dowling punished for contempt, Chetwood represents that he has been hampered and thwarted by State- ler’s pretensions of being the agent and trustee of the stockholders. With the fol- lowing paragraph the list of offenses charged against Stateler is given in the | document: And your affiant respectfully avers that the following acts and proceedings of T. K. State- ler clearly show and evince open, palpable, deliberate and scandalous opposition to his alleged and assumed trustand to the interest and welfare of the bank and stockholders whose agent he claims to be. Then he proceeds to charge that Stateler and Thomas were found to be concealing valuable propertv in January, the month Stateler qualified as agent; that Stateler only began to act as agent when he could be of service to Thomas; that Stateler went into the insolvency court and tried to have a petition substituted for that of Chetwood, and that Stateler was ruled out bv the court. It was learned, Chetwood alleges, that Dowling had conveyed Thomas’ stock to another employe named Parker, and when affiant ‘tried to trace up this transaction Stateler again appeared in court in an at- tempt to prevent him by filing a claim against Thomas on an unsigned promis- sory note to a third person and appealing to the State Supreme~Court. Stateler's appeal put a stop to all farther procecd- | bonds for him, that he had lost the money out of a pocket just after he had cashed a | check for that amount. He made the amount good at that time and retained his position. About the 1st of last month it | was found that he was again short, this | time for $520. The second shortage, the surety people say, they suppose was caused | by his being pushed for the money ad- {vanced him to make up the first. The money has been paid up by Railton, but the | railroad officials refused to retain him, and | his place was declared vacant on the 5th of | last month. | . Railton was one of the oldest and best- kaown officials in tbe railroad’s employ. | Fifteen y ago he was a train dispatcher | on the nd mole under Superintend- | ent Fellows, and while there acted asa | mentor to Fred and George Crocker, who | were given positions in the office on the mole to learn the business. At that time | he was a favored employe and finally was | appointed master of transportation under Superintenaent Fillmore. | . A few vears ago, however, when Presi- | dent Huntington gained control of the road and began to inaugurate his econom- ical methods of railroad management, he discovered that the road could well afford | todo without the services of Mr. Railton in the capacity of master of transporta- tion, and he accordingly abolished the position. |~ After engaging for a time in other busi- | ness Railton returned to the employ of the ‘{ company as agent at East QOak. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. 3 Columns of Comparison! OUR WHOLESALE COoST PRICES. THE RETAILER’S PROFIT PRICES. THE SAVING IT | MEANS TO YOU. 4 to 14 yrs. $2.00 3.00 5.00 $3.50 - $1.50 2.00 i2 to 19 yrs. $3.00 4.50 5.00 8.00 2.00 3.50 JUST A FEW PRICES ON BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S SUITS THAT WE SELL AT MAKER'S COST TO YOU WHY AT COST? 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