Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-08

Am in the auditor Office Of The Central Yer
mont Railroad came down here in October,
1877, and looked into the through freight
business: Paige and | checked the bills ::
he said that there were Il number 10 he cod
lected at Salem and New London. lat on
going there We found that they had been
prepaid here found deficiency OF $4,000
ain the through freight accounts did not c\-
mine the station account Copicd fdigr :
daily report took il to ST Adams AMI i1nnd
many items not reported 10y him | Igadc
out list OF thoS1 not reported to- HIM
and showed il 10 him We tIarcl il "lt and
found that the cars had come hire and had
been prepaid here: Paige couldn't accnrM
for it he admitted that the bills had
them were correct asked him why the
money on cars he did report was not sent to
81. Adams and he gave no reason; hc
thought parties here held receipts VIII" had
not paid their bills
Cross-cxamincd: The records at 81 Al
bans show every car that passed over the
road didn't look through the books at st
Adams and there discover the deficiency
checked Pages reports with our books ;
found one case where a car not prepaid here
was not reported and couldn't swear but
what there were more similar cases.
William Il. Hatch, employed in the audi
tors office at -. Adams. testified; Mr..
Pages reports were not transmitted in full
perhaps onc-twcnticth did not reach st. Al
bans my first visit here was one of cXam-
nation simply, 10 see if there was any cX-
PLANTATION of the shortage in the accounts
Appleton and Paige said there was no trou-
bic and if the accounts were figured up cor
rectly it would he all right went back to
St Adams and made up list of every car
that had come to Burlington and found out
where each one went to all prepaid cars
were drawn off on Il list : Mr.. Page and
then went TO the lumber merchants and found
that in every instance the freight bills had
been paid; my statement showed that there
was p deficiency of 10000 Paige did not
deny the accuracy OF this statement. | went
TO 81. Johns and verified the number Of cars
that had come To burlington the shortage
was in the through freight department some
money was credited To that department
which belonged TO the station account W.
+. llcndcc one of the clerks in the freight
Office, after some solicitation gave me a
memorandum Of S922 collected here for stop
over charges and never reported 10 ST Al
bans there was nothing what
ever to show that this money had
ever been collected lIcndce gave me
this information from a memorandum he
kept for his own protection. Paige admitted
my summary showing q deficiency of SIG
900 to be correct and found no fault with the
way il was made up from Septcmhcr6, 1876,
to October |. 1871, no money from through
freight was sent TO II. Adams or deposited
in the bank it appeared, however, to have
been collected atthe proper time; it amount
ed to S22, 900 of which 5000 was suisse
quently collected by Mr.. Lizard.
Mr.. Hatch was then examined on details
at great length. The Cross-cyamination was
long and exhaustive. Paigc's memoranda
sent into ST. Alhans were so carelessly and
inaccurately made that they were valucless
money was not sent or carr reported except
as on these memorandum blanks the eX-
ccptions Were nc-twcnticth of the whole.
J. : Chamberlain, cashier Tor the Shepard
X Morse Lumber Company, and |. y.
Woodbury.. agent for j. r. Booth, testified
rs TO payments and vouchers.
This closed the testimony for the day.
Mr.. Ballard stated that he was obliged 10 20
to Nergennos Wednesday and the case
was continued until Thursday morning at .
o'clock. The States Attorney stated that it
would take at least half a day 10 get in the
rest of his testimony. The hearing Is in
pTOgrtSS as we 20 to press