The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-13

Strange Traffic in Railroad Tickets
ARREST OF wELL-KNowN PERSONS |.
CHARGED WITH SERIOUS
OFFENCES. ",

OFFENCES.
On Saturday morning c. H. Motley, who
has until lately been engaged IN seiiing
newspapers on the trains OF the ChesaDeake
and Ohio railroad, was arrested by Detec'
tives Knox and Wren. charged with having
in his possession and offering for sale stolen
Observation-Disclosures Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company. Upon being arrested
Mr.. Motley represented that the tickets In
question were purchased by him OF j. ii.
Childrey, druggist, doing business on the
northeast corner of Main and Eighteenth
Streets He HeaccefdingIy made complaint be-
fore Justice X. Fl. Allen that Mr. Cbiidrey
.sdid unlawfuily and feloniously have in his
possession about SO worth Of tickets of the
said company, knowing the same to be
stolen - and upon this Mr.. Childrey was
also arrested. Mr:: Childrey asserted that he
had purchased the tickets from Master Henry
II. TYLER, who is employed as messenger in
the telegraph office here of the railroad
COMPANY, and he at once had Tyler ar
rested, charged with "unlawfully taking and
stealing and carrying away one lot or TICKETS
of the value OF about S70 the property of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
pany."
This case has been In the hands of Detec.
tives Knox and John Wren for three or four
weeks, aud during that time they have been
quietly working it up. Mr.. Motley has been
seen selling tickets on the platform at the
der6t, and is also said to have disposed Of a
good many to passengers on the cars, and
some he placed in the hands of parties at
points along the line of the road to be dis
posed of for his benefit. He atlirms that the
tickets were bought by him from MIR. Chill
drew on TWO different occasions, and that he
was to pay therefor one-third OF what he
realized from thir sale.
Mr.. Childrey denies the most Of MIR. Mot
ley's statement, and alleges that he bought
several lots of old cancelled tickets from
Young TYLER, with the purpose of using
them in packing bottles, and says that mum.
Der of uncanceled tickets were found
among the cancelled ones, and passed into
the hands of Motley, who was frequently
about his store. When arrested MIR. Chill
drey delivered up a drawer containing
probably 1000 or 5000 cancelled tickets
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
panv. These came into his hands through
Young T,ler, who told him that he was au-
thoriZed to sell them-that they were given
i
Motley (the uncancelled ones) and those
found at Mr. Chidrey's store Cancelled
oneS) were sold to and from various sta
lions along the line Of the road, and
were nearly all issued Wltnln tne
past six months. 1t will be understood
that the tickets sold by Motley were genu-
inc and had been once used, but not cam
celled. 1t is the habit of conductors when
they make their first round through the cars
to take passengers tickets and punch two
holes through each of them. On their Sec
ond round the tickets are taken up, and,
with the memorandum Of the trip, are tor
warded to the office of the company here.
They are rtexamined at the office, and then
backed away 10 be destroyed. 1t appears
hat notwithstanding the examinations made
by the conductors and officers, tickets un-
cancelled were sometimes put away with
ones.
Mr.. Motley some time ago told one of the
officers of the railroad company that he was
selling these tickets, and from this informa-
ton the case was Investigated and the ar
rests resulted.
From information in the hands of the de-
tectyes Mr.. j. G. Stocking, formerly OF the
Southern Express company, but now en-
ployed in clerical capacity at the depot, was
also arrested. charged with having in bis
possession tickets OF the same character. A
search of his desk was made and about $40
worth of tickets were therein found. All
but one of them had been used, though they
had not been cancelled.
The accused will be brought before tie
Police Justice for eXamination this morning.
They were allowed bail in the sum Of sou