The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1905, Page 8

DID EQUITABLE PAY “SHIP” CLAIMS? Mystery of $685,000 Fund and Payments) by Mercantile Trust Company May Hide Reasons Why Odell and Other Suits Were Ended. ~ ‘AT! of the activities of the -District-Attorney's office, of the State Dsnrance Department and other Equitable investigators are centred to- day-in trying to find out why the Equitable Life Assurance Society owed the Mercantile Trust Company, one of the main linkssin its-chain of banks and trust companies, $685,000. Every effort to find out so far has been met with evasion or pretended fgnorance, yet the payments made by the Mercantile Trust Company on pehalt of the Equitable Society, or James W. Alexander and T. B. Jordan, in whore nanics the loan originally stood, which aggregate this large amount, ave obviously muiters of record. The Equitable Society, its fnanciers and its constituent companies were deep in the Shipbuilding scandal. Who paid former Goy. Odell the $170,000 he invested in Shipbuilding Donds to induce hira to withdraw his suit? WHO PAID THESE SHIP TRUST CLAIMS? Who paid Mrs. Ida E. Wood the $200,000 ehe lost in the Shipbuilding bubble, just as she was pressing her suit for trial, inducing har to abandon fn action which would have almost certainly led to a thorough exposure of the scandal and the part played in tt by prominent Equitable financiers. Why was former Supreme Court Justice D. Cady Herrick the counsel 2 ing a number of suits against the Mercantile Trust Company for the re~ eovery of money lost in the Slipbuiding affair, suddenly caosen a director. ‘of the Hquttable. Ts there any connection between the settlemnt of Odell's claim and the gudden flop of Odell from Frank Black as his choice for United States Sen- | “-ator to Chauncey M. Depew, director of the Equitable and director of the . Mercantile Trust Company? Is there any connection between the fact that at the time of the Ship- building settlements, the Mercantile Trust Company loan suddenly in- creased from between $300,000 and $400,000 to $685,000? SECRET FUND FOR SECRET DEBTS. * That large sum of money which the Equitable owes the Mercan- tile Trust Company was a secret fund for the payment of secret*debts (7?) to persons intended to remain anonymous, is clear, And that every pre- caution has been taken to guard the distributors of this secret fund and also the beneficiaries, is shown by the impossibility up to date of any in- vestigator obtaining any information whatever about the matter, If the Odell suit or the Wood suit had ever come to trial, if any one of the suits which D. Cady Herrick has been industriously pressing had ever ‘come to trial, there is no doubt that a very uncomfortable situation would have developed for a number of Equitable officers and directors. It will be recalled that when Odell began his suit he never made any bones:of his. be- Hef that he had been swindled and he indulged freely in covert -throats of what he was going to do unless he got his money back. He got it back all right, and so did Mrs, Wood, who was no less letermined in her threats of what would happen unless she was reimbursed, JLOAN SHIFTED BACK TO EQUITABLE, James W. Alexander and T, B. Jordan carried the loan in thelr own names for a long time, it is said, because it represented transactions in which the Equitable Society had no right to be engaged. Alexander and Jordan were merely dummies. Now-thoy have shifted the debt back-to the Hquitable. Mr. Hendricks has ne jurisdiction over banks, but the State Banking Department has, and Mx Kilburn may be able to find-out what Mr. Hendricks failed to learn, When Mr. Jerome inserts the probe, as he 1s expected to do, it ts Delieved he ‘will find the real facts of the $685,000 loans buried in such a maze of dummies and fictitious transactions that i will take"weeks-to.get at the truth, Mr. Jerome is patient, however. TRUSTEES RECEIVE RYAN STOCK. In answer to the insinuations that have been made that the new df rectors of the Society recently named by the Board of Trustees have quali- fied under the Ryan stock held by the trustees, the Board, through {ta.sec-|+ retary, George F. Parkety gave out the following statement to-day: “Messrs. Grover Cleveland, George Wegtinghouse and Morgan J. O'Brien, trustees of a majority of the Equitable’ stock, announce that all of tha 502 shares of stock of the Equitable Life Assurance Socfety delivered to them by Mr. Thomas F, Ryan have been transferred to their names as trustees, and that it is now represented by a single certificate, held by them subect to the trust agreement.” Under the constitution of the Equitable Soclety, directors have to qual- ity by stock ss of at least five shares, Attorney ay that suits for the recovery of the profits of the “Hyde once, It is believed th syndicates would be commenced at, papers will be filed in these oases op Thursday, —-+2—— Pa requestin HIGGINS IGNORES EQUITABLE PLEA ‘question, 16 donate lant such a pi | Mr ng aud has drawn up e (Special to The Bvening World.) | tc for the appointment of fe i ALBANY, July 16-—Gov. Higgins oon.|"ive committee, mhich he will. is i" emor should finally degide tinues to ignore the appeal of the ma ith door vo legtalative acuon. Jority of the Senators and Assembly- olution calls for a Joint oommi men for an Fixecutive authority to take three Senators and four eee wii up the Equitable question at the pres- | powers te inventisee cate, we ent special session, When asked it he| companies having charters’ Ga {navrapee: hed reed the resolution which Senator) State. The SOROS as ws pat de Bam®s powors that “Btevens attempted to introduoe Inet | Femi panor at, the Ptoverm ® night calling on him to recommend the Imtment of a legis|ative investigutm ee ing committee the Governor replied: — | “1 don't care to discuss the matier.”’| "The Governor's attention was direc’ed to'the fact that in refusing to recog- nise the demand for tmmediate } Woman Owner of House and Guests Met Death in Their Rooms, Wolled, “understand that legislar @p extra session must be initiated by theGovernor, I also understand iy po- Witton in the matter, and I have no de-| ire to break over the rules. I eee no Teason @t present why I should <hange my mind about the question of a less lative investigation. “Bupt, Hendricks is doing al! thy be done in that line and i have eonfidence tn dris wbiiity to probe to the bottom.” | The legisutors who are antently uy porting the proposiiton for @ lem iwiniive fmquiry into sil Ife insurance companies WABASHA, Minn, July 18,-Six ro bumed to death in a a to-day for the Commonwealth Trust Company, on whose behalf he has been press-| Ng the Governor | but Woyed the Depot Hotel here, ir , a rt) sls one CITY | | POSSE TAKES SUSPECT IN rib Search Arrested in Jersey Mountains. | (Special to The Byening Worli.) PATERSON, N, J., July 18.—Hunted by @ posse ail night in the mountains ugar Midwale, Hiram Conklin, of that | plage, was to-day mrreasd on suspicion of murdering Delia Conklin, the wife of Sherman Conklin. A telephone mi ge received here at} noon by Assistant Prosecutor Shaw | wave the information that Conkiin ¥ “wptured this morning by Consta Beattie and his posse in the mou made no resistance he wae innocent. Detective Shane and Assistant Prose~ cutor Shaw left here immediately to bring Conklin to this city, Delia Conklin, who was seventeen | years old, was found with her braing benign, out 1 gt the home of her mother; rie re late yeeterday after- uns and a Her two young both: p After they returned an ; ber ated trip and immediately gave tne Coe told the authorities that ew had approached the house they heww @ man enswering the esorip- tion of Hirain Conklin running eway Altam Conklin, it was claimed, had insanely jealous of ihe girl after her marriage to Sherman Conkilu, and the police concluded the clue was a evod one and started to find Hiram Conkiin. As soon ss the report of the murder | became Keneally known the people the town organized a ponae, Headed b, the constable, they spent the |searching whe mi ins and found } daybreak The home of the y in Slomtsburg, whi employee at Batwara place. Ing wome er @usband 4ien, of | Conklin wer at Midy ein the ber do Was PATRICK F, DUFF GOES TO LAST RESTING-PLACE, Servicer tor the Late Clreulation Aaclined to give it up as a bad job Phe eead are Mrs, A, Hoffman and determined purpose of Governor abort Job Gertrude mnaKer of ning World Held Ro prevent any logisiat! satae/ania becca Hermva and Jamea| at Holy Cross Oh hy, Brooklyn, @Resion hus discouraged 1, Assembly. | hey Afipn Fett Phe funoral of Paty Duff took man Foolker, ove of the leader in the ar Be F bodies tn the) piace to-day from hoof th f Gor a legledettve tavestigation, | * Ane @ aSarOb Ae DENG MARE. oy Croas, an Chup nue, Bravit fire Wan caused by the explosion |ivn, ‘Phe 1 +h * of 4 gas tank used for an ilwminadag ‘iy Plant, with whch the hotel wan | family bu the by owner of the x ot Duff was the cireu of The Evening Hon manaycr ies gpd had held burned te te Sata te ‘thet | it eA ei ts, cise Matis. Po ee ee eee ene dw Tie SHADE OF HE OLO APPLE Tree GIRL MURDER 6. | Hiram Conklin After All Night n was}* ON THE § (By T. WHER HARRIMAN *OOK THE STAND THE STENOGRAPHER, WENT TO LUNCH, ‘(PRINCESS LOUISE, THE WORLD? TUPSDAY RVENING, JULY TR, 1905. IZZLING LID, Ey Powers.) You STAYHERE Ger BACK - porn, | ixcess 20015 BIT WOMAN OUT SUED FOR DIVORC OR LOSE CHILD, Bishop Keeps Daughter in Isoproper Surroundings, .M keep Mrs, nousekespey. feres waa rend 18 proceeding 1n y Leo Bishop, Miriam's brot in which he alleged that ings of his sister in thelr immoral and + be permitied to remain th fathe re. ASKS DIVORCE FROM LOUISE OF SAXE-COBURG Princess Declared Sane, Prince Philip Carries Out Avowed Intention, GUTHA, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg tha, July 18—Prince Philip of 83 WR and Gotha to-day fled with Provinck Court a petition for a diy rom hes n Paris to be ss might put jn @ counter | on confinement of xervicg th o New York’ puper nds dean Mr. ‘Dum’ was only forty. sae he World and he gathered aim a Bre warm personal » deoply lament bts untimely | M: Mrs. Hess warranted ¢ Mr, mitted to the court for confirmatton, Teaao C, Bishop denied his sor Gatlons, and asserted that that the ung girl's removal. Mulqueen’s report will the Ume an infant been Placed in an is daugiiter loved 2 loved her, apd that s BSE under no eon on earth. he i6 of the age ofrdiecpetton, the father, young woman, perfectly oapable making up her own mind as to whe sine desires to live, make me ap results in shewing unnatural aut Miriam aciced endeavor to keep ‘ouher.”” Mp gr wit and him, Axe> orce confined In anf re 4 child three iw Vy of d upon nnd i » and horrelf at all times ed to my Interests fond vd his wife ty Iw t 4 and am intent to Hive with my re m1 Rave the grentes when tho brought r igh School In ‘Twelfth ¢ Howance of $10.00) veurly Mulqueen si that Previous 1 been JV ii in Baris, 1 Mise Sophie Bishop ‘Max Blahop, : it eae Dalted out | Miriam lived te un ne sult might also be dis 7 te Hit to the Arinoes ae 70, bela Under Naim ina while Tarrytown and then to the her aunt, In September, Bishop took Mrs. Sarah with him, h him. “two a rently 1 Ttect itis, ns ppt ent ‘e ay t health, te i the greater joa “hy hes | WITH THE WH hoaeerret a ieas FAMILY UNTILL Tat liy SAYS REFEREE Upholds Charge that I. C. J. Mmilqueen, as referee, has rt in the Supreme Court in finds that Isaac C. Blshop | aln the custody - 3 ‘a Bishon, areh ee eure = a Mere Co itaNN TF eS WIFE SEES HER LOVED ONES LIE Sapte, pre kn ae t perience While Husband and Son Lay Drowned. and her five emall children. wll gone down to the beach at Sebonic the surround. | s houne. nould | He | claimed that his father was living with irowunstanees be sub- 0 Mra. Heaw Ee pare Was brought into his home for the pur- pose of caring for Mirlam, who was at/| Her mother had inedhe asylum. that he sg d capvinced that ‘ly a8 be alie- clroumetances live with bet ‘other per padd “and 18 an unusually bright ‘This attempt to tan ubnaiural father only son Lao tw be an her fathor im his and ave never Known my mather, Shp 3 has unselisnty brother Leo, ey uuconge nial with tem Un per father, love and Abeas corpus school at unory with 1901, Isaac C. leas to live His eon Max then declined Miriam was Creek for a week's outing. After the uwo were drowned Mrs. | Hulse waded out to the edge of the pool, and sie could distinetly eee the bodies of her dead husband and son lying at the bo! et them out. from tho water and lald on the h. The ease was reported to the Cod oner, when he reached the scene. emall children Mr hoy, ‘went in bashing In'fne eroek, when suddenly his saw him @ink In @ water pool, Just as the boy ue him, time down for rabbed him, nto the pool r the water, and tame to the aurface agmin Hulse was (thirty-five years and itved close to Charies # at Good Ground POOR TEETH Come from lack of Chewing. Dentists Endorse ‘Grape-Nuts THE SCHWVING FOOD, DEAD IN POOL Mrs. Hulse’s Heartrending Ex~ They had tom of it, but she was unable to Bhe ran along the beach for about a mile and came upon a man who was but it wae after 8 o'clock last night ined alone with the bodies pay me pe eae ifm els Ags eat ohd the little fellow omme to the surface the father was wading out in the water Maryn NO MURDER TO [175 GHILDREN KILL GERDROW, WERE FOUND AT ; _ SAYS HIS SLAVE THIS BACY FARM = Berthe Claiche Pleads Not Mrs, Lena Scucimaro, Who" | Guilty to Charge and Is | Says She Is Employed by Returned to Tombs. Sisters, Held in Bail. um, of No, 832 Bast Fourteenth street, 1 to-day in Harle charge of running thout @ license, and Mrs, # mboullna, of No. 48 Hast Land Fifteenth street, was) Berths Ciaiche. ron, master of from his Indge Foster in Par sions to-day and ve arlod a charge of n The plea v Otte Rosals Gerd. ape | who slew Emil Mrs, Lena § Hundred an In 8500 b pure back to the to awa ball for the Court of Speed Jot the DistrietsAttorney: in gither mo | Sessions on a charge of aiding ana@ jing the e to trial or accepting « t © Scuctmaro woman of ma ny 1f tho Chiltren's So- strate Crane that Mra. 5) ot tarm- 4 sos, taking jf yas her & nie to wet nure order to ine | nt of th ey it eee | toundes! told Ma that sha, She Camboulina 1 she tooled ndy of wa sf had a Caivale, soundings of The race 4 she hae different | Signed by Dr. and a4 ant ov r happiness n and wretchedness before. —er ) re babice and the nurses at the Fanta loont esa: acimaro home beiore paying them Tord Grimthorpe's eccentrictttes are — gossiped about e London M. A. P. Japanese Candy. lothes and anese have a malted prepara; nown as ame, wh Is a kind off) or barley sugar, made by the ace? parley n or glutinous rica, “A Household Remedy of Superior Value,” IS DR. McLEWIN'S ESTIMATE OF PE-RU.NA, ! te This Prominent Physician Knows from Personal Observation the Curative Properties of Peeru-na, Mc-rusna Popular With the of People. Masses SOUTHAMPTON, I, I, July 18,— U5 Archibald street, |George Hulse, a carpenter, of Good Ground, and hts eleven-year-old son « opportunity to obe.j were drowned yesterday In pool } elwlly chi i, twenty feet deep, in sight of Mrs, Hulse bead, fespira Arrh of thee +» OF stomach ree atarrh ts, an slinply 4 prolongeas mbrancs", remedy, as it acted of nerves, af the blood vessel ! u ay net in the: a gauss th {a thetr norm, have beon aattstled 4 with tt W_Lavo placed a, PE*RU-NA which tw dlgging for clams, She pleaded with it At once value le, rae i aah Winter rer er We) gine ter H| | Nabio and. destinod SAVES ij evo" “at o the wae The ‘9 become very pop- | DOCTOR BILLS, [i 2 eee rik ue i te ae b i row! ine ‘ard iwi ie py ni ave small me: pe Orne Ane Ware ie want to secure @ remedy which they ond | depend upon. “T therefore consider tt » hou edy of supertor value,” sil ad| Occasionally a doctor who discovers t After the two bodies had been lain bonefits of Peruna’ is. will eS oft the beach Hire, Hulse remained with publ statement of the same °2 make ai] em all day. ng gu er ' aking gor, the Coronet, " With ‘the, ¢x- Dr. MoLewin, of Ottawa, Canada, tg one! of these doctors, His testimonial oonsists of 6 people hort, £ Lewin nays, there es Unt é”olcloak whon” the Coroner ar- A Beem eyeing cenont alway | cise description of the effects ‘of Roruaa | rived. ne isle eniidien: ware (eon: Sirord to procure” the ‘services of g | upon the human system, pratt for Ener ‘ate 33 3 Reet ct Area ek It should be read with oare by those me een “growne men eben it re Terune, comes to FuRh people | are interested in Peruna, oon Toner ote ily a8 a great blessin| arriy ead ths woman tb ae eee opel Martian were constited in person | ,A* 8 remedy for catarcbal ailment tn a tort {t would cow a patient a large fow, but) fm Oe ea i bas no equ: Dr. Hartman’ prescription is within reach of all without # fee, aud for very small 8. can. Address ‘The Hartm: altar Catubioae” ast i Most Healthful and Refreshing Summer Drink The Pure Juice of the Appte, Sterilized, Carbonated Non-Alcoholic No Medicme Rend it ye Drisk i, stele Y i i ae tinea. NOS