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Excerpt from Hearing in the Matter of the Concord Railroad Corporation Vs; George Clough and Trustees: Before Hon. E. L. Cushing, Hon. H. A. Bellows, Hon. William Haile, Referees Soon after this, as will be seen, Mr. Carney was employed in o his capacity as detective by the United States Treasury Department, but was soon detected in taking a thousand dollar bribe from one John Leighton, whose name is familiar to many, and he received a discharge from the service of the United States, which, if not honorable, was unconditional. To the public generally, and more especially to those connected with railroads, a careful perusal of this trial is very respectfully commended. The judgment of the referees has been given. On that no comments are made - none are necessary. These pages contain every word of the evidence on the trial. As will be seen, it covers the entire history of Mr. Clough's life during the thne he was a conductor on the Concord Railroad; and the details of every one of his business transactions, from the time when, a mere boy, he started out from home with all his worldly effects tied up in a pocket handkerchief, down to the time of the commencement of this suit, have been gone into, and are embodied in the evidence. The way in which he has acquired his property is here stated; a comparison of the amounts returned by him from day to day, while he was conductor, with those of other conductors who were, from time to time, on the same trains, is given; and the testimony of the detectives who followed him like hounds on the track, day after day for six weeks, unknown to him, trying every method in their power to spot him, is set forth in their own language. Mr. Clough feels that he has been unjustly and wrongfully pur sued; and, conscious of his own innocence, he has felt compelled, by way of vindication, to place before the public all the facts, as they were elicited by the trial. To the candid and impartial judgment of that public he submits his cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.