Note 495 — Chapter XVIII · CONKLING DEFEATS FENTON 1870
Reading edition
Stewart, Reminiscences, pp. 256-7.
"In early life Fenton, having undertaken to carry $12,000 to Albany, reported the money lost. He was arrested and discharged after much testimony was taken. Whether accused justly or unjustly (most persons thought unjustly) it blurred his career. Conkling had a copy of the proceedings before the criminal court."—Ibid. See also The Nation, July 14, 1870.