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Q. Did you ever have a conversation with Garmon? 

 • A. It was principally with Garmon I had the conversation. 



Q. "What did Garmon say ? 



A. They went in and talked it over, and Garmon came out and said 

 it was decided to give me this reappointment. 



Q. Did Garmon on that occasion say there were some trespasses 

 here other than you had reported ? 



A. Yes, sir; that I had not looked up all the trespasses. 



Q. That was the allegation that he made ? 



A. Yes, that I had not looked up all the trespasses. 



Q. After this time did you, during this month, make reports ? 



A. I did of several trespasses. 



Q. After that time did you look in the office to see whether the 

 reports and letters you had sent in were there? 

 "A. I noticed that ilfwas charged against me that I was favoring 

 certain persons in not reporting their trespasses; it happened I had 

 written during the preceding month or two, I think four times, men- 

 tioning these very reports, these very persons, and in the last report 

 I had mentioned some five or six of them, and said ' I would get 

 around to them just as quick as possible; well, I went searching to 

 get these letters and I could not find them. 



Q. Could not find them in the office ? 



A. No. 



Q. Did anybody in the office say to you they had been there ? 



A. Mr. Train admitted receiving these letters ; he said especially he 

 remembered perfectly well the last one, because he remembered the 

 way I expressed it. 



Q. Now, previous to your coming to Albany on this occasion, had 

 you had any conversation with a man by the name of Talbot ? 



A. I had, or he had with me. 



Q. How long was that before* you came to Albany? 



A. This conversation of him with me was the 25th of December, 

 1888. 



Q. You were in Albany the February after ? 



A. About the first of the following February I got this notice of 

 dismissal. 



Q. Hold your mind right there ; who is this Talbot ? 



A. E. H. Talbot, son of Charles Talbot; born and brought up in the 

 town of Minerva. 



Q. What does he do there ? 

 , A. He has left it just now; he got a living the best way he could.' 



