Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

rOwed money of me for other purposes
while was there and when wasn't hav
never omitted or made false reports that
was required to make to St. Adams: wa
required TO made only the station report
the cash book was the only book in the officj
it was my particular duty TO keep the olhc
clerks also made entries on this; witncs
shown number of receipts and idenific,
two as being in his own handwriting l. don
know whether or not | collected the money
might have made the bills for some othc
clerk witness shown another batch of re
ccptS and identified several ]; have not 90
the $4,000 | am charged with, nor any
part of it own Il house bought five wear.
ago; | agreed to pay 800; it is morlgag
ed for $40 have no other property: my
salary was S15 a month at first and so tn,
last year: | earned one year as leader of tho
band $3.50; earned as nigh as so night
for playing: picked up good deal of money
that way; made some money playing Will
other bands; have been in Burlington al
the time. practically; have heard that two
detectives have been following me.
Mr.. Ballard here stated that he wished ic
show that a high railroad official had told
respondent that they were satisfied that he
had not got the money. Objected to by the
prosecution after discussion by counsel, oh,
lection Overrulcd.
Witness continued; A St. AlbanS ap-
pcared twice before Messrs. Smith, Hobart.
Lucas Leard and Hatch. Mr.. Appleton was
present Superintendent Hobart told me thai
he had sent two men her TO look after me
and see if had got this money; this was
after he told mo tha. . lidn,t considr,
me a criminal he told me thai This
Spring. in February or March the first
knowledge | had of the deficiency was.
| think. in Scptember, 1877. from Mr..
Applcton: Mr. Leard came down and made
up an account from our books and charged
us with deficiency of $4,000 at one time
we were charged with $50, 900: Mr. Apple
ton said perhaps some of these bills hadn't
been paid we were in the habit of leaving
reccipted bills with our customers we
checked IN the vouchers we couIJp't uol,o
much ont of il ANYWAY. we wrote IN down
country agents 10 seq 1f tho cars were son,
nren,id or collected in retting those answers
we sIlnnoscd ,bc accents toId the trurh Mr.
Hobart said Ia me ..Fd ge, !, dorn to sam
and IN n,v il mvsclf - no;d mn, ou,, ox
nrns,s in The down coun,r,. tr;n Lnotod
/ ihrouUh tbr offices and tbourht made 81 Ooo
/ mr. - 0OO lint vos heaJoJ ar a, :, iiI,ous
/ bv other documents they sill cI,in,nr =, de-
| ticiencv ms 10 thr other clerks Mr. II,tcb
U D.E "a tnls r,1s Il
| him didnt think they rnuiJ | went
| tbrnu-h tbis Investigation NJ my o,vn ,y-
nrnSe wasn't satisfied oskaI Mr. Tuc,s
and he ,i.nutized Mr. Hatch he ond lii
our hest 10 straiuhtrn il ami lint the ,rf.
cheney footed mn lor@cr Than ever. Gov
Smith soid he didn't think I was Ia bl,mn
criminally nj all he and Mr. Unb,rt otTrrcd
to nrorurr a situation for me have hrrn in
Rurlinrton eyer since this ,,r,;r Een, nth
inc from ,b, r,ilrn,d men ami h.InaJ ,hcm
i'm their Investigation all I cnuId Nr Ir,rJ
asked me if Mr.. Appleton had borrowed
money from me. said he had he asked if
il had Lrcn mid hack and s,iJ | thou,,lt If
had. meyer look for myself one dollar tbnt
hrIup,r,d Ia the Crntrnirn1J this deticirncv
in my orinion crew out of a lack of system
at hcadIuartcrs tn proicc, themselves and
their AGENTS if they had furnished lis with
proper hooks and blanks everything wnuld
have been all ri.rht | n, the Start protested
against thc system they hny,. nov dronncd
if have mo- knowlcdrc vbcr,. the money
has zone Ia the collection of hills was very
slack in 1873 we had bills running as far
back as Isl, don't know how llrr,. the
amount was the >l52 collected of u. W
Robinson was hv Mr. Applcron's directions
applied ON an old deficiency that of 1873
owe apnul Souo on my house and c1Uo or
s6oo additional To parties IN town.
'roSs-eNamhncd Mr.. Appleton, while We
were trying to fix up the old deficiency, ask
cd me Tor money and took the stop-over
charges S?Ol on nlne cars, which was never
reported to ii. Adams this was done hy his
directions no bills came IN with these ears
knew that the railroad would hold me re-
sronsiblc for this S9o, hut II he took the
responsibility OF taking II could stand my
responsibility besides this so and the
Sl52 collected "f d. W. Robinson, Mr. APP
pletun never took money OF me without
leaving an equivalent ! had general charge
ol the freight olilce Mr. Appleton had time
enough every day tolook overall the accounts
witness gave IN detail his duties at thc
freight Office don't know when lett oil
keeping the cash nook at tle ,ime oi the
old 1enclency n" 'aliy cisn nook was KEPT
IN lo.o - II the oook iiau pech properly
kept c"hiu nave aScerialheu whether any
money was missing couidht Keep II be-
cause my p'he[ anu general u.i'ieS were 100
nca,H MI hcr "It ii'aic crtrics Ill 'he CiSh