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Show PROMINENT RAILROAD MEN IN A SCANDAl Memphis. Aug 11. Disclosures o a most sensational nature. Involvftu, high former officials of tbe Illinotc Central railroad, in the conspiracy b; which the Memphis Car companj defrauded the railroad of hundred ol I thousands of dollars, wwre made here today when a decree wa issued lr I the chancery court. I H. McCourt. a general superintend ' ent of the southern lines of the 111? J nrds Central and W. S. King, general superintendent of the Yazoo Mississippi Mis-sissippi Valley railroad, have mad? voluntary restitutions of $13,000 In cash, it Is said. Mentioned hi the decree as stockholders stock-holders also were the names of Frank B. Harriman, general manager of tho Illinois Central; Wm. Renshaw, until May 1. 190$, superintendent of machinery: ma-chinery: Joseph Bilker, assistant superintendent su-perintendent of machinery, and John M. Taylor, general superintendent of the Burnfllde shops. Chicago. |