Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-20
The HALLWAY.

THE PENNsYLvANIA RAILROAD POPULATIONS.
Speculation runs high just now with re-
gard to the amount lost by the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company, through the dishon-
esty of it'd employees, and The extent to
which the different suspected conductors
are implicated. The Company, for reasons
hest known to itself, have thus far studiously
avoided alluding 10 the matter; but we are
assured that any attempt to smother the
affair up will be repudiated by the stock
holders, who will insist on full and search
ing investigation of the whole matter, and
the publication, in due time, of the names OF
the guilty officers, with the amount of their
delinquencies. In the absence of any Off
cial information on the subject, it is impos-
sible to say yet who are the guilty parties
and who are not.
1t is said, however, that all the through
conductors, with the exception of that very
popular and accommodating officer, Mr..
Keller, are implicated, but to what extenJis
is not known. Some of them have centes-
sed their guilt and endesvOred 10 retain their
position on the road by making restoration
of their plunder. We hear of one man dis
gorging s., 500 and another SIS 900. Others
had nOlhlpg TO return-the faro bank and
gaming table having served to relieve them
Of what they had knocked down" almost
as fast as it came into their possession. Re
port has it, also, thai houses have been given
up, real estate transferred, aud stocks mace
over 70 the company by the delinquents, but
to what amount, or by what particular per-
sons, 10 one outside the men themselves,a ,and
the Board, seem to know, Some of the con-
ductors have resigned but they are all run
ming their trains yet, and will, we presume,
be continued in their position until others
can be procured to fill their places.
- so, ho -. e, k,1r,
their detection is really refreshing. One
SAYS that ait was all mistake about him
that he had nothing whatever 70 do with the
matter, and that it was all a fuss about moth
ing anyhow" Yet dame RumOr, if she can
be believed, credits the same man with ma
king eighty-four dollars on a single trip,
which fact was brought home so clearly be-
fore the 6COvode Committee" as the parties
charged with the investigation of the frauds
are termed, that he had to acknowledged
the corn, and maze good the amount, as
well as several other little sums which had
slipped into his possession in the same un-
conscious and illegitimste manner. Then
another tells you that he defes the Compa-
ny, and points to the fact that he is still in
its employ as evidence of his innocence
But so prone is the wOrld to be uncharitable,
and look at the dark side Of everything, that
this man is reported TO have amassed a large
fortune on the road, and that when asked
before the COMMITTEES how, with salary OF
| but $50 month, he contrived in a few years
to accumulate $35, 900, his answer was that
| as soon as the party who put the question,
and who is said TO be worth $500, 900 himself,
would explain how he made his money, he
would give satisfactory reply. The 9ues-
ton was not pressed further, and the con-
ductoT left the stand, still master of his $685.
| OO0 secret Pittsburgh Chronicle.