. The street railway review . him that he thought they could get no more than $25 in set-tlement of the claims. According to ilyers arrangement he, Har-ris and Phillips were to get $8 each, and the remaining dollarwas to be given to Myers mother for the use of her house as thjhome of the injured mau, Charles Wilson. Ihillips said it was not his purpose to become a party to theconspiracy. He considered he owed it to his employers to protectthem against the deception, but neither personally nor under in-structions from the company did he try to lead the other two menou to commit the crime. Neith
. The street railway review . him that he thought they could get no more than $25 in set-tlement of the claims. According to ilyers arrangement he, Har-ris and Phillips were to get $8 each, and the remaining dollarwas to be given to Myers mother for the use of her house as thjhome of the injured mau, Charles Wilson. Ihillips said it was not his purpose to become a party to theconspiracy. He considered he owed it to his employers to protectthem against the deception, but neither personally nor under in-structions from the company did he try to lead the other two menou to commit the crime. Neither Myers nor Harris made any statement iu his own de-fense although in answer to questions by the court after the ver-dict they both insisted that Phillips had concocted the schemeand induced them to become parties to it. Myers was sentenced to one year, and Harris to nine monthsin the County Prison. Phillips was jointly indicted with them,but as to him the jury was instructed to return a verdict of notguilty, which was COMBINATION PASSENGER AND BAGGAGE CAR, CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC RAILWAY COMPANY stead he reported the matter to his superiors. He was orderedto let affairs take their natural course. Some time afterwardMyers boarded Phillips car late at night, and after ridiug somedistance he put his scheme into effect. At Nineteenth and Rit-tenhouse streets he stepped from the car and fell to the directed Phillips to report the accident as having happeued toCharles Wilson, of 2210 South Clarion street, and he would gethis younger brother to play the part of Wilson, as he himselfmight get tripped up. After the report of the accident had been made at the office arepresentative of the company called on the injured man. Therepresentative found the part of Charles Wilson was being as-sumed by Harris, who presented a rather woebegone appearance,with his head bandaged up, etc. The matter then came into the hands of Sterling L. Rhoads, as-sistant claims agent of th
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