The sun., 1890-01-26
SPOTTED ny p1NxEHroN MEN.
Another Conductors Case Against the
Rome, watsrtoVvn ard OEdensburEh Rsad.

| Another Conductsr's Case Against the
Rene, WatertOwn ard OgdenshurEh Read.
SYRACUSE, Jan. 25.-Another one Of what
have como to be known as " the conductors
| cases" against the Rome. Watertown and
0gdensburRh Railway Company was brought
to trial In the Circuit Court before Justice Ken
nedy yesterday. The plaintiff is Elisha Garri-
! son, a well.known railroad man. A number OF
| conductors were discharged by tho Rome.
Watertown ana ORdonsburgh Company In
October. 1888 No reason was given and the
| company held back their wages for month
! and half. The conductors brought suits TO
recover the amounts claimed TO be due them.
One OF these actions has beon tried and is now
before tho Court OF Appeals the General Term
having affirmed the judgment OF the lower
court in the plaintiffs favor.
Mr. Garrison began his service with the rail-
way company In 1850. He has been conductor
on n passenger train since 1881. and has been
running from here to Oswego since the build
ing OF tho Phnnix branch. Tho company by
the terms under which Garrison was employed.
had right to discharge him at any time; but
when he was discharged n part Of his wages
was kept back, and that was the ground oil the
present action.
The companys nnswer to tho complaint was
that Garrison had been unfaithful to the trust
repossd in him apd that a St
Ssps 70. siiO and Sept 4; ;IS6; 4 = Ssi %ss
66eHFpa been put on on Mr.. darrIsons train. ~ WV A
OF the PInkerton agency in New York, was t6s
man who did the spottinr on Garrison. He
testified that on Aug g. tssS, he was PasseMH- r.
for Oswego. Mr.. Garrison being the conductor;
that he saw the conductor, receive cash fare,
whom whom wSs wSm"h PnHeroa DRe @a' T opor"tor Mr.
Doescher Duplex tickets were nnnehod ior
all these Of ts one eneaeo ~ h Ts
vice. and every conductor on the road was
under surveillance, he said, and not any one OF
This work was in the regular line Of your
business" asked the, counsel for the road.
tObjected to and excluded >,
, Does your agency ever take divorce cases ?"
No. sir" was the renly.
Kennedy said
0h. that mayystand as establishing the In
DO you know why tho Pinkerton people
:" Because IFS against the rules" curtly re-
Isn't it because a rule OF the New York Su-
prone Court says that their evidence shall not
counsel.
The witness replied that he had never heard
The case was given to the jury this morning.
and after ton minutes absence they returned a |
verdict OF sll4. being the full amount claimed |
by the plaintiff.
Before the counsel for the railroad company |
left tho court room he was served with a sum- |
mons in the case OF Mary Willis. administra- |
trix. and William H. Willis, administrator Of |
William H. Willis, deceased. against the Rome. |
Watertown and Ogdensbnrgh hallway Com
pany. The action grows out of the wreck Of |
the company's now freight house in Fulton !
street during the wind storm on Jan. ~.
William ii. Willis was one OF the workmen on |
the building. and he went down in the crash. |
the rescuers some little ime afterward taking
him out dead from underneath the mass OF |
brick and timber. The suit Is brought by his ,
widow and his brother and is for $4,000.