The evening times., 1896-11-20
LET TROLLEY CROWD BUY
Then They Can Try Compressed Air
on the Belt Line.
THIS Is THE ULTIMATUM
Mr.. WorthingtOn Says the Whole
Movement Against BOndhOlders'
Interests Has Been Full of Deceit
and the Proposed Free Test Is An
other Trick Judge Cox Considers.

The lexington and Belt Line Railway
dispute Is in the hands Of Judge Cox for
a decision Counsel on all sides have made
their arguments and the court II engaged
III an examination of the papers referring
To the transactions of the two companies.
Receiver Schoepf in his report 10 the
court has asked that he be granted an
thority To enter into an arrangement with
thc Compressed Air Company of New York
for free test Of the air system Of that
company. He wants t. bring the motor
to this city and have it run for thirty
days on the tracks OF the lexington line.
The bondholders say that ills is only
another scheme for continual delay and
charge that Receiver Schuepf, represent
Ing the Elkins- Widener-Dula syndicate,
would he really testing a motor in which
the combination itself Is interested.
CLEPHANE WAS A BLIND.
They charge deceit from the very begin
ming and Mr.. Worthington's assertions
are borne out by the actual facts as to
the fling Of the suit brought by Matthew
Anent Of Baltimore. II was all done iii a
single day. To carry out this plan OF
deception Matthew Ament was induced To
hiring suit for small amount of grain
furnished for the roads
Fearing that if Mr.. Ridout filed the suit
the court might see through the game, MI.
Ciephane WIS employed. He was used as
the means 10 the end. All the suits were
prepared al the same time and in the same
office.
Within a few minutes after the judgment
creditors bill was filed the lexington
and Belt Line companies acknowledged
Judgment, and another paper was put in the
hands Of Clrrk Young.
The plaintiff WAS Matthew Ament, and
he re,trd that, having secured Judgment
on the law side of the court for the amount
OF his hiIl, and there being nothing be-
longing to the company upon which he
could have an attachment, he pctitioned for
a receiver for the road. The plaintiff
further asked that the roads be sold to
satisfy his claim Of Il few hundred dollars.
These papers were not ali carried before
Judge Cox at the same time, but were so
manipulated as not tO excite his suspicion,
and when Counsel Ridont acknowledged
tina, the roads were in Il bad shape and
acquiesCed i'll the appointment Of re-
ceivcr, thu court was not NJ all aware that
the arrangement was all prearranged ana
similar TO CoiluSlon in a divorce suit.
ORDER OF SALE EXPECTED.
Mr.. Wor,hington charged all of this in
his argument Of yesterday: then. coming
back TO the pray yer Of the plaintiff, Ament.
for sale of the road, the bondholders'
representative insisted that Ia sale he made
Ry this time Mr. Ament's counsel dropped
out of the case. From the time of filing
the suit Mr.. Clephane had nothing more
whatever to do with the action. Mr.. Ridout
mana ged the affair and neither hondhUiders
or stuckn"iders were aware OF the scheme
until they read in the newspapersthe morn
Ing after thata receiver had beenappointed.
IN furtherance of the arrangement the bills
themselves We're not made public until "A
few minutes after o clock of the day filed.
Seeing tie collusion, AS charged, it is
thought Judge Cox viii order a sale of
the road which VIII then satisfy the bond
holders. lfthc Elkins-W Widener-Dulan crowd
then want the road tl:ey will be able to
purchase it and. as Mr.. Worthington said,
use IL to test their air motor, but at their
own expense and not with the money of the
hDndhUlders.