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Show TELEGRAPHIC A WALKING FK.U I). How O'I.eury, the I'il'i(rlnii, ( liculed ilie New Yorkers. New York, 18. It ia now stated Incompetent In-competent witnesses that O'Leary only walked 320 miles in the hi to exhibition, ex-hibition, and some any only 20. The first witness ia Frank Chirke, who dime from Chicago with O'Leary, iLitd wlto laid out Lhe track for him at the rink. Clarke Bays: After the feat In; measured tho track and found it to bo seventy-five feet short. Aa eight laps were counted a mile this mailt a ditlerence ot forty-five mihs on tin whole 500, but he says that there were other and greater frauds than this. Instead of walking eight I apt (or a mile the pedestrian was generally gener-ally credited a mile for every six or seven laps, so that tho whole distance actually walked was brought down to about 272 miles. Plummer, the time keeper, makcB a more serious charge, as he says that each night or early in the morning, O'Leary, instead of being on the track, aa everyone but the outside! ring supposed, was sleepinc comfortably comfort-ably in hia bed, while he (Plummer) marked 03 the miles at the rate ol about five per hour, as if O'Leary had been walking and making very good time. This ho Bays occurred every night excepting the Uat, wheu he finished in the presence of a vast; crowd of admiring spectators. It appears that Clarke and Plum mar's only motive in exposing the fraud in the perpetration of which they had both taken so conspicuous a part, was the failure of O'Leary to pay i them more liberally for their services, j Plummer says he only got 30 for his ; 144 hours work, and that he had to, swatch that. He saysO'Le;.ry cheated everybody; and that be said there had been only 1,600 tickets sold L twenty five cents during the whole week, whereas Plummer is ure that nearly 7,000 tickets wercHold. On the last night he saw $1,500 in the hands of the treasurer, and that was only, a part of Saturday night's proceeds. It U only just to say, however, that the chargi-s are denied by ne ol the judges. |