The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-15
swtndilinK tho chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad.
SALE OF STOLEN TICKETs-I EXAMINATION
OF CHlLDREY. MOTLEY, STOCKING,
AND TYLER.
The Four Discharged-Who is GuiItr :

The Four Dischnrged--Who is GuiItYe
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad ticket
cases were heard and disposed of by Justice
White yesterday. Messrs. Z. Z. Cabeli and
G. D. Wise appeared for the Common wealth
aud Mr.. S. NJ. Page for j. 81. Childrey and
&C. Stocking. -: i:
TIE case OF ]. Fl. ChiIdrey was called 6rst,
and Detective Knox placel on the stand.
He said: On Sunday, about five or six
weeks ago, Mr.. Motley approached me
and told me about selling these tickets,
but I did not believe him until he
brought and showed me SS7 worth of
the tickets; after that he worked with US
(the detectives). He went to Mr.. Cbldrey's
and found markct-basket full of punched
tickets, which be said he got from Henry
Tyler, but declined to tell me who got the
uppunched tickets that were among them.
/ made no search Of Mr.. Childrey's premises
and found no valuable tickets in his posses
sion. Motley'S statement to me was Voiun-
tary and. without any questions from me.
Mr.. ChiIdrey told me he bought old tickets
from all the railroads; but when l found
none except Chesapeake and Ohio tickets,
he said, "Well, I'm out of the others now"
facts, and said Mr.. Cbildrey had said in re-
ply to question from Mr. Kuox, "I'd rather
not say who separated the unpunched from
the punched tickets"
Mr.. C. Fl. Motley said : Mr. Turner, who
stays in MIR. Chldrey's store, was the first
one who told me about the tickets. Cbildrey
asked me if 1 thought could sell them, and
| said I'd try. He said he would give me
oae-third of what might get for them; told
me TO be quiet about the matter. l got
tickets from him two or three times, and
sold few. / showed them to Conductor
Fiz, who said be thought they were coun-
terieit, and told me to show them to Mr..
Vliet, the general ticket agent. did so, and
told MIR. Vliet where got them. He said
they were valuable and had probably been
stolen. He told me to go ahead and sell
them, and be would try to find out where
the leak was.
Cross.examined: did not think there was
ANYTHING wrong about the possession of the
tickets until found that Dir. Childrey had
uncanceled tickets, too. i then told Cap
tain Fnz. 1 have been running on that road
as news agent since last January. The tick
cts we're given me about the 18th of March.
| sold two or three tickets for full price. One
i i
think, is johnny Bowles he is a butcher in
the market. | lett some at way.stations to
be sold. Have paid over to Mr.. Childrey So
orS4. Igot several lots of tickets from him
altogether, but never more than twelve or
three. The value of all of them was about
S75 or $50. Never received any from him in
the day time. Don't know whether he gave
me $50 worth at any one time. Mr.. Chill
drey kept memoranda of each ticket he
handed Inc on a schedule of the road. paid
him more money than | received for tickets.
10 Mr.. Page: Yes, / think Pm about
SQUARE with those with whom l lett tickets
along the road. l got IS from the clerk of
the Central Hotel at Charlottesville for a
ticket he sold at S3 10.
AIr. Page: 'LeL's put down our account
with our agents"
Witness then made calculation, while
Mr.. Page made memoranda, and it APP
peared that he had received about IS and
had paid Childrey s..
Mr.. Page: "Is that the way Mr.. Childrey
got two.lhirds and J ou one.third!"
Witness attempted a confused eXplana-
ton, and was told to stand aside.
The tickets furnished by Motley as having
been obtained from Dir. Childrey. were then
shown to Mr. Vliet, general ticket agent of
the road, for examination. He said they are
good so far as l know, and their value is
$685.. saw tickets OF this kind in Motley'S
bands about three months ago. He said Cap
tain Fitz had told him to show them to me.
said to him think they have been used,
but have nothing to do With them. for they
are not the company's property until we col
lect them. have no authority TO take up
ticket unless have evidence tnat it has been
used. II makes no difference what becomes
of punched tickets; they are OF 20 value to
anybody.
Mr.. Turner, who is clerk at Mr.. Chill
dreys store, testified that he had never had
any such conversation with Motley as the
latter had said, and had never said anything
to him about tickets. That he had never
seen more tLan three or four uDcanceIled
tickets among The old tickets brought there.
he had returned tWo OF them 10 Master Ty-
Ter. and had destroyed the others himself.
Tyler had asked Mr.. Child-ey to return to
him or destroy any uncancelied tickets we
might find. Tyler never brought anything
else belonging to the railroad to us. He
was paid in money, cigars. and tobacco.
MIR. Henry Meter testified to the good
character of ChiIdrey, and the defence pro.
posed TO introduce other evidence on that
point, but Mr. Cabel said he did not pro-
pose to attack the character OF the prisoner.
Mr.. August Rozene testified that the char.
acter of Motley for truth and honesty is not
good among bis associates.
Mr.. Wise: "Do you Know his assoel-
a.es?"
Witness answered in the affirmative. and
MIR. Wise said: Name some of them."
Witness: 81 don't know that l can do
that. Ny acquaintance with him extends
back about two years. He and belong to
Virginia Lodge, knights Of Pythias."
Mr.. Don Z. Halsey said he had known
Motley when he lived in Lynchburg. and
had never heard his character for truth, ye-
J ,city, or honesty questioned.
Here the case was rested by counsel on
both sides. Justice White said he would
discharge Mr.. Childrey because it had not
been proven that he ever had any un.
cancelled tickets belonging to the railroad
com pany. Also, that the company had evi-
IDENTITY :.been seriously defrauded, but the
responsibility rests somewhere else."
MoTLEY's CASE.
Mr.. Vliet said Motley brought him some
tickets three months ago, whicl he said he
got from Childrey to sell. [ told him to go
on and would try and find out where the
leak was. Afterwards / gave him 50 to give
to Childrey to keep him quiet while the case
was being worked up.
Motley [interruptingl: Idid give him part
Of the So.
Justice White: I believe Motley Is the
guilty party, and would send him to the
grand jury but for the fact that be made his
statement under hope OF reward, and after
wards acted by authority Of MIR. VIiet. Un-
der these circumstances shall discharge him.