The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19
hILBIN is MOVED TO REJON.
THE BUSY AMORY As
RAILROAD EXPERT
-. saws lie Himself Is Going Right On
IN ,.lor,-GroundIess Attack Made on
the Accounts Of the Erie and the Arrest
=, uurb j. Jewett I'm 1873 Recalled.

nj Hugh ~. JeWe't W. 1870 Aecsheu'
r,,o,, A. Philbin was moved yesterday
r,o'y {, renlrkS md, about him
p.,,iI,l. vr,,llni AM printed ye,ter-
a,,r,,ng II, g,,s aheld at full sped
i'li'ol,in. "a he has done bsfore, that he
r..tla, against the M,trop )lit1n
.,n,ny. and he insists, In substance, that
~, o'" a.,ock on the corporation was inspired
i.' ,,, real thing in the way OF patriotism.
~. d,nics by inference that anybody's
-. that the job would net him fame
I c,,tpnc- had anything to do with his
-. ,n,, Of Bakers retainer.
hans the most interesting thing In
AZ p,iIbin's statement Is that part OF It
n.Lj,, throws to the winds the report OF
Toic5n,nn. the Baltimore expert account
~, u,,., work cost JAM, r. Ksens's
n-i,.aw at the rate OF 81 an hour and
s,,,.nses. or something more than 81 900,
IN ,old When Amory first bobbed up
a';,b bs awful disclosures he said they
,rar., verified by two expert accountants,
.I az pleasing were the reports Of the
a,.,,,t1n,. to all hands at that time that
so,,,b,dy thought a copy Of one OF the
.o,,.,r+s would look well in print. There
Nm copy was permitted to escape into
a nswspapcr office and 1t has never yet
hoan discovered who let the thing get away Z.
a,er. the accountant whose report was
,,ri,isbed in part, declared, for the sake
~ bis own reputation, that all his findings
-, tentative and could not be verified
witbout an examination Of the books Of
me company. Then. thereupon. and i'm
nediatelv. Amory insinuated that Teich-
mann had been bought up by the company.
Since Teichmann, on Friday, declared on
me witness stand that, had he had certain
ds,a AT his disposal, he would not have
sound that the company had q deficit Of
something like sls,000,00, he has fallen
INTO disfavor with Philbin. as well as Amory,
and Philbin now declares that ne based
his reuort to Braker solely on the charges
| ~ Amory, whom he calls railroad ex-
merit supported by -the advice Of ex-
perienced railroad accountants employed
Incidentally. Mr.. Philbin rather belittlee
the District Attorneys investigation Of
Amory's charges. 1t has been reported
that that the District Attorneys accountant
has found nothing wrong with the COM
nanv, In reference to the District Attor-
nev's investigation. Mr.. Philbin says:
The INQUIRY made by the The, District A..
hat has often been made that n there has
been any wrong-doing In the company's
Affairs the persons in charge were too clever
swered ny the fact that it has taken Mr.. Am
ory who Is a railroad expert, over a year
and half to dig out OF the b reports the facts ACT,
and after being pointed out therei is not a
single one Of such fact, that re.t' in the slight.
est de- gree upon his credibility or upon his
construction Of the plain statement In the
company's sworn reports.
Mr.. Philbin adds that il doesn't make any
difference how many bricks are thrown at
him; he purposes going right ahead and
seeing his friends and their attack on the
company through.
Il was recalled yesterday that something
OF parallel to the attack on tho Metro
poitan company is to be found in the at
tempt made bv one Frank Plat Of London
in january, 1873, to have Hugh j. Jewett.
Company. convicted OF perjury for having
fasifed the reports OF the receiver, in
that, according to the charges, the reports
swelled the assets Of the company to an
amount by several millions more than it
should have been. ...r 80.
and the cass was there threshed out. the
late Judge Fullerton appearing on one side
and the late William A. b zach on the other.
The case resolved itself into a simple
question Of bookkeeping. Platt got several
Jewett had made false returns. while Ste
phen Little, one Of the expert accountants
Tor the Metropolitan Street Railway now.
and then the auditor Of the Erie. as well as
Robert W. Downing. comptroller of the
Pennsylvania Railroad John s. Lied. treas
urer Of the Northern Central Railway Com
pany: James c. HART, treasurer OF the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company;
f d. Worcester. treasurer Of the New York
Central, and I. p Chambers. general audi
tor Of the same road, all testified that there
was nothing in Platt's charges.
In commenting on the case the Rdiirdp
World Of Feb, 0. 1873, made this statement:
In this case, as Is w,ll known by oil who
have Xaminod IT, there Is not the east founda-
tion for charge OF p riury. Yet II is mnds
by an rr, sponsibie Character at tn. bidding
Of another Mr.. Jewett is placed in the
lsnon nious position OF prison-r. at the
bar Of Justice :. The fact is Published syery-
whsrn. over all EuropH. to lessen conhden nee
In his Management OF one OF the most i'm
portant intrrrsts in this country. and to
damage the company That II Il possible
20 do this il a shame and a diserac' TO the
patton. Tf such an occnrr@ nc" had beer
before an English court OF justice. each one
Of the men guilty OF this conspiracy would
have bs6n placs d under .arrrst by tn. judge
and consigned to penal colony for the bal
ancn Of his life.
The stock Of the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way and that of the Metropolitan Securities
Company recovered somewhat yesterday
from'Friday's raid. The former gained 2T
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