New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-20
THE COURTS.
rup ALLEGED RAILROAD CONSPIRACY.

THE ALLEGED RAILROAD CONSPIRACY.
aURTHER TESTIMONY As 70 THE WAY IN wiz"
VERDICT FOR Sic, GOO AGAINST THE THIRD Az
TNUE COMPANY WAS OBTAINED
The Third Avenue Railroad conspiracy case
was up again for examination yesterday ai'eiuVOn
fore Justice Flammer. in the forkvidc PONCE No"''
Two former employees of the Third Avenue ROAD, na"e
Reilly aud Norton charged with conspirlng 10
cether TO manufacture false testimony on DeDai Vi
man named Schultz who recently obtained Verulc'
aonnst the company chiefly the testimony OF these
two men, for Sl5 900 It IS charged that the p'oo VI
their perjury was to have been $1,000 each'
The first witness examined yesterday was Thomas
NeyIns Chief OF the Brooklyn Fro Department "o
testified that about year and half ago Francis hey'
one of the defendants, driver In tue Dep"''n'
nrIvate detective named Mooney came 10 see tDe wiz
ness about Reilly In connection with The eenuiS SUI"
While conyerslng with the witness ana mooney h0"'
exhibited diary for 1873 in which appeared meiho
rapdum OF the accident. The witness ud ho1rc'" I've
no was shown diary at trial Of the Gaze III the sd
peror Court which Reilly swore was the same' Ou' ~
was not One was blue and the other DacR.
rhomas f. Connor a mason, testified that he was on
car No Is OF the Third Avenue Railroad on OctoDer D.
1877 when the accident occurred. pofcemah au"
man noned Foley were also on the front platform WIN
him. The car was going north. When near Ihirteeh'n-
st. he saw the injured boy, who as well as the w'ne'
coud remember, knocked down by the horses Inc
ivr James Morton one of the prisoners stopped the
car within about ten feet and quickly any car De
had ever seen stopped.
Bartholomew Foley of No. $40 East Elghteth-st''
tinsmlh by trade testified that he saw me boy jump
from the car that was going south; be saw no con-
ductor The boy landed safely on his legs, ana WnIIe
running south he was knocked down by the horses ne
ran probably about ten feet lie was lynx uhuoi ''
front wheels when the car WAS stopped -, .
lose h 3 pieVy said that he had examined car NO.
about month after the accident Ills exaninauon Was
made NJ the request OF the company he iounu tho
car I'm perfect ORDER William Down, also car 0uluer'
examined the with the same result Wni LIN ~;
Nelson a master mechanic. employed on the ceconu
Avenue line. examined the car and found IL I'd gooo
order. . .. .ho arr n, tho
time OF the accident said chat the car was III peiece
order 40 far as he know. He had heard no complaints
NJ If either from Morton or the driver WAC succeeded
him after the accident. ~ nd . or
Charles f. Travis was the next witness ne IL pr
yat detective who EN- poyed by the railroad com
pnny TO follow and note tue mOVements ana ooS IA
mons of Reilly and Morton. lie saw them tOKetner III
BROOKLYN in 1878. While ne was drinking WIN t ,
Morton remark q to Reilly that II their SIDE Won tnsE
were TO yet 80 600 EACH At another tlme rhly lnau
The same remark the witness. Morton tOid tne WIZ
ness that Schulz had gyan him already @oV anu tue
same amount 10 Reilly - A.,
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