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jon, Wanted Secrecy. Ww ‘money that was paying for ware? A, I did not. or Of the Equitable? A. » Gulliver a director? Mr. ‘Hughes. No, A, Weil, 1 saw Mr. Gulliver, a ie es eolibael), Bye eouldn’t ember if ‘upon Hi was due to his desire way than any other. Proper for Anybody. Do you think {t wae proper for A. I think It was proper bo ‘ ‘He said it just came to his we ition when the Equitable Life's il report was published. Did you recommend Mr. did not. Gave Hyde Advice. Abe stock's value. told Mr. Hyde, Of the stock that it should go to its adoption, Hatrinmn sald & clean breast his all@ed short-comings y created for tim to retrieve ion, Harriman asserted that fact Tot the, Kquitable Life was 4| with Lhe Mercantile Trust, hod Did you confer with any oMcer cr Wasn't | Q, Did you think you were conferring Hiwith Mr, Gulliver, a» a representative Dauitable? (Gulliver was Hyde's No; 1 knew he represented Mr, je that the eyn- be kept a secret. His nto a corporation Mke the being a particlpator tn the public out of H, and to do thie wos eater to deal with individuals, Union Pacific syndicate was Decause it was quite certain ‘that the securities, if held for five would be worth more in that Life to invest in your syndl- ly to take it that could get ft. n didn't know that the Equit- Lite had been paying Kuhn, Ioeb Co, for the sourities allotted to @. Do you renember being asked to list yourselt and influence to get Mr, de an amtmasadorship? A. I was “Mt. ‘MéIntyre spoke to mo first then Hyde spoke to me. I prom- to speak to the “pian when I him," And aid you secauph it? A, I did, Hyde? rritnan admitted that he had ad- atte a Bagel pot Pilon OCT OMloll statred and then T left. offtred to buy Hi stock, but| @ Have you refreshed your memory it he had propsed to\subscribe to @ ty hold i for him in the event of Frick committees report jeopardis- added Harriman, if 1 ‘became recessary to dispose 4 Mable Society and not to anybody explanation of his advice to Hyde stand up for the Frick report and was that if young Hyde would of everything, ditions and methods obtaining in the table Life and his following them he entered It without question, ‘of yout® and inexperience, that ‘would be forgiven and an oppor- e Admits Before Sahl Wauibe 'C Committee that) oe Mhey Bargained for Equitable Cash at His Office and at His Home, hiv, 1 suppose It was lia of he | eames the om of Oifell's seieliet| The dill to | repeal the charter of the company was | Introduced Maroh 31, 1906 B. Didn't Mr, Hyde teli you that "| Wouldnt Let Untenmeyer Cross: Haye to bring the matter to the of fie Executive Committee? nd I then told him 7 would * to preserve our confidence. DEQ) As a director of the Equitable Life, DSBo't You know that it was Equitable Examine, Samuel Untermayer made a vain ap- peal to the commétne to be permitted | to oroki-oxamine the whness, Through Mr, Hughes, however, he got In these | questions Q, When you told Mr. Hyde to sup: port and move the adoption of the Frick report, did you tell him that the report | was agtinst nim? A, I did not Q. Did you mean to intimate to im | that such was the case; that it wwe | against him? A. Yoo. Q. Did you offer Hyde's stock whtle the was pending or afterward? remember. @ When was. it that you offered to become one of six subscribers to pur- ohase the Hyde dtock? A. After the Frick report was adopted. Q. You were the man who suggested the Frick investigation, A. I was. Before appealing to the Committee to be permitted to cross-examine, Unter- myer sald there wae a square issue of facts between two witnesses and that | in all justice’ the matter shovid be | sifted, Chairman Armstrong nid that the issue was not the committee's con- corn. Mr. | to purchase Mr. Frick report A. 1 can't he to Hyde I Recalied, | When Harriman wae excused from the stand Hyde was recalled. By Mr. Hughes: Q. Have you any chango to make In your testimony of yeaterday? A. No, at, Q Do you remember going to Mr, Harriman and asking him to ghlist him- welt in the cause of the Mercantile ‘Trust in settling the Odell suit? A. No, sir, I never went to Mr. Harriman’s office for that purpose, What I have already told you are the facts, I sew Gov. Odell ih Mr. Harrimas office nd left him in consultation with Mr. Colby. T cannot recall ever visiting Mr, Harriman in company with Mr, Deming. The second interview to which Mr. Harriman has testified—the uptown interview—did not take place at Mr. Tlarriman's house, but in the Metropol- ftan Club. T saw Mr, Colby and Gov, the for: ate an- as to the date of your meeting with Mr. Harriman when he just advised You to settle with Odell? A. It was in November, 194, I think. I am pretty sure, Influence Out of Office. By Assémblyman Rodgers Q. How is it, Mt, Hyde, if what you way be true, that it was in November that you were influenced in making © vettlement with Goy, Odell by threat Or legislation? A. There was going to be a Legislature. Q Yes, but Gov, Odell was going out of office on Decentber #1? A. Yes, but’ you must know that often some people tre mote {nfluential out of office than the we they are in This answer of Hyde's set the crowd hfs | Roghing, pe | Charles F, Wiltlamaon,/ James Ht Hyde's private secretary. dented that | Life, | HARRIMAN BEFORE INSURANCE PROBERS. Specially Photographed by | } | HYDE’S LAPSE Squire Manipulated De in His Name, While In addition to James Hazen Hvde reiterating Gis charges of “sanibags ine” against Edward H. Harti B. B, Odell in connection w statement of Odell's Shipbuilding sult | against the Mercantile, Trust Company, | there came out today im the Legis- lative Insurance Inquiry a story of loot in the manipulation of, stock sold to and purchased from the Equitable Tt appeared that tls stock+jobbing wes carried on in the name of James Hazen Hyde, eometimes while he was in Europe, sometimes while be war tere. Sales and purchases were found credited to Hyde on brokers’ books and the profs went to him. RMIT I/II ON VARIOUS STOCK SALES | a | But He Cannot Remember Them, An Evening World Artist. | OF MEMORY als with the Equitable) He Was in Europe, tworand w halt millions for one-half ot it Q. Five hundeed and two shares? A. Yes ,eir:; when [ referred to my holdings T referred to that. Gould Made First Offer. Q. Well, what were the other offers? A. The other was made in the pegin- ning—th first offer made by Lr, Gould. ‘That was in the begnning of the row— must have been fn the beginning of February. The second offer was made by Mr. Prick a fow moments before the first Board meeting in February, of $5,000,000 for the entire holdings or of $2,500,000 for one-talf. Was that a cash offer? A. Yes, and I declined both of these offers HARRIMAN’S OWN STORY OF HOW HE BROUGHT ODELL AND HYDE TOGETHE This Harriman’s statement of Hyde's charge that he was. bagged intowpaying B. B. Odell, jr, $75,000 to settle the former nor’s shipbuilding truat suit: “Mr, Hyde came to me and I think Mr, Deming (H, C. Deming is president of the Mercantile Trust), Mr. Hyde—in fact, both of them asked mé if | would use my influence with Gov, Odell to withdraw his shipbuilding suit, It was about a month before a settlement was made with Odell, ° “Hyde said the sult was dangerous, That ia might induce others to sue, I took the metter up, Mr. Hyde and,Gov, Odell met in my office, Mr, Colby wes there with Hyde, I was not present. “All T know about what happened wae that when Mr. Odel) came out of the conference he asked me who Colby was, I told him chat he was connected with the Equitable Life’s law department, The Governor said that Colby seemed the whole thing and Hyde nothing. “There was another interview between Mr. Hyde and Gov. Odell up town, { was not present, Perhaps ihe interview waa at my house. 1 don't recollect that there was a meeting at any club, The details never! came to me, except thet Colby remarked that his first offer to Gov, Odell was his best, joy, Odell told me that it was $70,000; and that if I particularly’ jdesired It that he would accept the same. He mentioned that he had egal expenses to meet. | {'Dhe sum was subsequently raised to $75,000. I TOLD MR. HYDE THAT WHILE I HAD NO INTEREST IN THE MATTER, DERBOTLY) AND THAT WHILE | DID NOT WISH TO ADVISE HIM, THAT IF 1 WERE IN HIS PLACE I WOULD MAKE A SETTLAMENT THAT WAS SATISFACTORY TO THE OTHER SIDE. . THAT'S ALL I SAID.” in the value, but 1! SEE” GN AE STOLE DED Was Not In America. in the oe ot August or fonoun smbery iy nf ere oe. Ig i was ree out a ay country at that time, § have he: statement from i) @ Saat sampaipepaemanens a ete the ney "vousht th coo bf ae eines | Leslie McMutry Arrested in) spatertant n't ram ve, irene: Land Deal and Held in wii , Have! vou you, any cy spun $3,000 Bail. by 5 i at? 4 an: 190L have au Leslie McMurtry, an ofl-well man your behalf, name? fo ge LS euy, mane ar 1,49) trom San Francisco, who ts registered transaction, at the Astor House, wis arreted this ont mane you mat in Pret, 9 bande nee afternoon in the Centre Streeet Court | him Any authority, to buy stock’on your | 2% change of stealing a deed to behalf? i Aitorny Mr, euire never held ; 10,000 sores of land valued at $5,000,000, | power ot been oourt Di ever have any authorit bee sates es wth Q. summore obtained by John Walker, from you wo uy stock on your | LA bey A No, alti T 80 not. remeber Ett bara ot the Great California Oil ing ey pe, to Williamson & Squire| Company, of No. 2% Broadway, who \ Galt that in June, McMurtry hed given T call attention t wi wil rove atten’ ign tn the eocoust the company the deed to 10,000 acres f eid clare Ri Fy yh 7% of land in San Benito County, Cal, in Ly . exchange for $5,000,000 of the capital PemPeriicatad, TUM Be there IEE HA stock of the company. He eald that in Sie pry renarebee i A 4 September MoMurtry had been allowed me! reso! ; deed. hot remember any details about’ it ped ged dle pl say er gg Untermyer Coached Him, had never returned the document 9 Joseph Du Vivier, counsel for Me- ave re: do Was any stock sold to the Equit- | Lite Assurance Society by the! Murtry, said that his client had turned rere ens, COMPANY. DE the $6,000,000 In stock back Into the bd * a am, frou. wo ak me that ques.) company, and that he did not have any- tion last! night, ee | chine except what belonged to him. He se Ts ~ | contended that the company was trying whe ch gas vy to datraud MeMurtry out of his land, eee Magistrete Crane sakt it wovhl be In November, 1004, quent St Sparen Se hh h ‘ ©. T notice t the name of the teller! bier to review the whole matter tn je igtven i ie eee an the the courts and held McMurtry on ear tent a nor held ey charge 0 grand larceny, fixing the ba‘t securities: many of at $3,000. McMurtry eald he would mikey hold @ «reat {Taneactlon went throug that | be able to provide ball, O's Naat ‘the ek sale of it Eek cage te) GIRL OVERCOME BY GAS. my secu . The nite aera RRIMAN’S AMAZING REVELATIONS OF ODELL-HYDE DEA PICTURE FELL, Two Other Members in Their Home Three persons dead, one dying and another In a critical condition from gas polsoning sums up the result of a heavy picture dropping from the wall under Jt, in the home'of Mrs. Catherine Schroeder, No. 6) Broadway, Paterson, N. J. last aight. The dead are dra Sooroeder, sixty years; ber son, Christian, thirty, and her grandson, Ira La Farge, eleven, Howard La Farge, eight years oh, Is near death tn Joseph's Hos- ital and Ethel La Farge ts seriously itn the same institution, Four of the victims slept in rooms ad- Jacent to that In which the falling pic- ture had broken the pipe and released the full pressure of Two women boarders, asleep in another part of the house, were made sick by the as which had accumulated {n their room in suty ficlent quantity to cause death, Christian Schroeder, who was a motorman, was on night duty, He was expected home at 4 o'clock in the morn. HURDLE-IUMPE COMES A CNPPER Edmund A. Stimn’s Hunter Falls and Hurls Him to Ground, Edmund while Cock A. Btirn came « cropper riding his big rawboned hunter of the Walk fn the preliminaries of Class 114 for Minters over slx suc’) cegsive jumps five feet high at the Horse Bhow to-day, Mr. Stirn fell directly under the feet of his horse, but managed to scramble to safety be- fore the antmal could trample upon him, It was the first cropper of this year's show and furnished a thrill for the society folk in the boxes, many of whom ran to the ringside to see if the young man was dangerously hurt. Mr. Stirn had sent his mount over the first hurdle in fine fashion and went him at the second jump under the whip, In tak off, the horse stuin- | bled ‘and crashe’ to the tanberk, car- rying the barrier with him. Mr, Sttrn ‘was jolted off on his head, falling heay- lly. He managed to scramble out from under the hoofs of the horse, however, and after he had been dusted off by his groom remounted the animal and seut him at) the jumps again, taking four great ovation for his pluck. In spite of the cropper, Cock of the Walk qual- ified for the final judging and Mr. Stirn sald afterward that he considered hele tad had @ very parrow escape, hurdles without mishap. He received a My BROKE PIPE AND GAS KILLED THREE of Paterson Family in Serious Condition Through Odd Accident as They Slept. Tt appears now that te arrived home At that hour and entered the apartment by way of the kitohen door, muffled up Jo a heavy overcoat, As he closed the door behind him he entered an atmospliere that Wuickly Rumbed his brain, Before he could get aged }() & window ihe dropped to the moor, overcome by the poisonous fumes, Mrs, Schroeder and the other members of the family retired early and,.we early risers. When nelghbore saw day that the house remaloed closed }and the blinds drawn hours after tho (mo the grandonidren generatly apm, peared an Investigation way made, Repeated knocklag at the qoars pro ducing no response a window was forced and man Was sent into the house, He reported that the roo! were full of gas, A polloeman enter through the window, opened ithe doote bay made An investigation. ler, her son ah, grandonild had been dead for 4 erat hours. The two small childrén were hurried to @ hospital, COTTON MERCHANT KILLED HIMSELF H, Frank Weed, Who. Had Been Ill, Fired Shot’ Into Brain. STAMFORD, Conn, Nov, 3-H, Frank Weed, a member of the firm of Weed Brothers, cotton commission. mere; chants, of No. 39 White street, New York, committed suicida to-day at his, residence In Noroton, His mind is believed to have been temporarily deranged by suffering due to stomach trouble, Resently Mr. Weed tad been under treatment for his disease at q sarl+ tarium at Mount Clemens, Mich, put since his return, within he last few days, hp had complained of intense palna, To-day, when his sloping ‘Ota door was found locked, his chan was nolilied, Ry! broke his 7 v the room. . eae et Weeds toly lying across the le ha i Halle Sestancly® probatiy. by anodlay himeelf in the mouth with the ‘uss of the revolver n hie tee h Mr. Weed was ated Ree old agi was a member of a Ww own “ah wealthy Noroton tn ous Bishop Weed, of ‘rorida, je bin He was sins re Weed and Sarah The dry goods district sulterad Lud Tore, shock when it became kcown, {hat Frock Weed had killed Rime thirty-five yeare he had been gotton commission business at fe a relative of Theodo: . Weed. pay 7d street with his pias. irm name of Weed Vero! OLD AGE. 4 i ae a@muna Opreeeswse 2 ews k die = amen Oh mate , ) 1 s ‘one. promised to stand by Hyde to Yet Hyde professed bis ignorance Y h it . e? pee fe a at the tied ever bad a hand in the Lawyers’ oe the entire scheme He couldn't | imrest of the soclely that Tsheata | (rhs wie gules Ya Tohatteradie|Poltoe Artest Mer on a Charge of/ | IPTON HAS TWO igs Fidentia ONT. Pau aye * The Ambassadorship Boo: ‘Mortgage and Lawyers’ Title deals con- then part with it, or If I did part with nel tr es will sce from our ree- Attempting Suicide, 7m ‘ i orenip Boom, |austed by George H. Squire, William | remember recetvt y profits, | it 1 didn’t think it for the best interest | ords, Ad k, REGRETS IN LIFE.| °* Xe Yorke Weed tt on, x Q, Do you know if « letter was writ- d Q . | of the saclety that one Individual should | which yt, cemed per able In-| Bertha Oppel, an eighteon-year-old “~ A to the President or the Secr H, MoIntyre and Thomas D, Jorden.) C.F, Williamson, Hyde's private) control {1 vestment and very | to Own; Y | girl, whoee home is eupposed to be on , Bome people at Atty salt themerives The} yr State. by Gov. Odell bearin, He had never received more than his| secretary, and Hyde's father's before) O. You didn't have any Idea of part- eg arreU St, of ‘oF inreaa thetr was Wend overcond OF and really appear so, he babere 0 1 fe y aring upon ida ha on | ing with your stook at that time? Fee ot pets Newtolk street, emty seem active, vi ‘and you 6 famry and had always earned that. | him, and Goorge H. Squire, carried One that He Was er Mal forous and youn } Hyde's Ambaasadorship? a. 1/"™0 pth ia Bautt. | N9,# ena was tu mI] gow in a lithe furmished room in a house | One e "| A reporter of The World happened in the + have heard there was, Py Poeyetl anaiatels ial was then put the a i ngs in ne h the Equit- | Mr. Untermser: You did offer it to frou. be Say ie: sing very largely | &t No, MT West Geventeenth street.! Other that He Failed to Lift the fora of William B. Riker & Hon Co. our , able as a lose | the society? increas largely Grugaists, the other evening, and this F tet dlgre ee Morn eantguinted’ wan thal ot shel 1” Whiley a trubtes: fe th emaket price: sharefore, nt Bees ene Mon ake via told’ ortmoner,| Cup—Denies Wedding Story. | sublet wae brought un” Said a neuter <t ‘i farts? should’ be written? A, I have 'SENDER OF INFERNAL seeaee Lawrite Mortenge aad rest (reette Toney tae eeteaats, (rants it MN anes ran Of my holds | charged with attempted wutchie. LONDON, Nov. 16—"There are two illustrated every day right ure in New and tie Lawyers’ Morigage and ‘Trast| to the soclety for five years, me if I sel » York. It is not veare—old age Qobs-n, i ‘mo means of knowing that, as T have siey @. When was that? A. At the degin-| Inga.and Told them I would gall egme| Acooating to Proprietor Bohmidt of | great regreta in my fife. One, that T) icy ae any ‘wet tmecbut ie bows tt |! fer you. | MACHINES IS INS panic vas 1d by @aul ning of this» trouble, 1 Arst offered to | of my hol to them or to that Ar) tne furnished room house, the girl was! have not yet lifted the America’s Cup, | vital force. that makes a A The Frick) report was ead by Mr. ANE, Bought and Sold by Squire. | frases It tor Ove yours’ and’ thes | at (he pri forougit co the pace three days ago byland the other, thet I bave not been | severe sickness, wi sien digeetign, tht ' y bearing upon Mr. Hite bav-| , by Search, Weel evtsh Hi BY, Bae i and ont atwewnens Gasorines They Fixed the Market. ‘}@ man named Erle Braun, who claimed) married, secretly or otherwise,” is Sir begs yg Ry 5 yee siarts, yitshe ! pomeitied the Equitable Soclety to director of the Equitavle Late and a ey society, GIN’ have the. Flatt to | . Enter an tow. wes ho to be ® flowermaker who was trying | Tomes Lipton’s wply to the statement as ane a & person rapully ; ptions without the consent or | Jersey Youth, Who Also Confessed | *eper of one of Its “yellow dog pee buy {t a omer | ge ree sx . They aed’ the market, for a place on the police force. In| pubmed in the United @tates that he ' wwledge of the Executive Commitiee 4, . * bought 1,100 shares from the Squitable’ Qs What was the third 01 Iv wind how it happened that |'the room ‘were found tetvers from Braun | years ago wie secretly wedded to @ (ho Boolety, Hacrhman wae one of| . S¢tting Buildings Afire, Sent | Lite of the Lawyers’ Title Company at A, The third offer was an oder of nein Meant "on SeUr Resouat lama Aonepiaige Sorentite, No. 06 Woréetis tater air. berg the signers of the report. | to Asylum, 14, Betwoen rig vised oe ies rhell, Second Vi t| through he Fyiampog A aulre’ cna jetreet, Sir Thomas revetved cable inquiries | in our ' Q. Don't you know that that finding be aire sold HS shares onc the Banttnble aw f gale, om re ‘from New York on the subject. ; i (Special to The Bvening World.) {table at prices ranging from 62% to that @ oagh offer? A. ¥ Te ches feet he coe an| NEWARK... 3, Nor. th-Jutgs [mn in|tpudiente ‘of pontleman “nnd?” te ped ae ee, “Tein, bavinw asia | BURTON DEMURRER FAILS. ¥ CUREDR come, or | 4 “1 Bimidr transactions ‘were shown In| *yndloate ¢ a Tie putraanetneten, DY cu’ C ay odio! ign ot mentioned apecifically? | Skinner, tn the Court of Common Pleas, chase it Oo e LA | vye! origage ok. In each > 7 , ‘ ‘A. You. pau bsdioed ‘kn: ceded, Qbiaartin the Lawyers’ Mortgage st .Q. When was that? A. Some timé In me | Pederal Court Decides Agninat the —_—— | | o mm that Se the stock purchesed the ru Ever, counselled as 8 Glrect0P /ihoman G. French, the Aghteen [eer eee eae g ircmonme| @, What wus the next offer?.a. ‘Then iNerentien, te femutred | tae stock In Kansas Senator, Joe Letter Tells Chicago of Stater’e About political contributions? A.NO | Toa at'6 4 sae billed Rs S019 'Dace'e 1, lso received an offer tram George W. by et ST, LOUIB, Mo, Nov. 15.—United Intended Vinit, ( @, About investments? A. No 1 of Oraxge, who was chang 0 . Young of $7,000,000, Cireult Jedee Van Devanti ' ts gon of th er to- Nov, 1%.—Joe Lal , with being an incendiary, and wending | George H. Squire, Jr, » son of the Seven Millions Bid. vou. remeeniner iibesing moms as’ tho temueiec, bios CHICAGO, ter, ' nel 1 ella eg pays stop {Infernal machines end Black hola former Equitable Life director, throvgh! wien was that? A, T should say on ia connection with the Dur” | teraay” "to ies arene ot Unites] Uratner-tnclaw at presses mM You do as @ director \ Whowe brokerage Arm the transactions) 4n¥; was the end of Febroare or tie Lawyers’ ‘Title Company's | ear men reeny from New York, where " fh the matter of Counselshtp for the | letters through the mais, be ment to was a witness following| beginning of March; I am not eure of Hf States Genator Burton, of Kansas, visi hls mother, and re re. Ld rh of the’ Soctety? A, Mr. Hyde |the State Hospital for the Insane @t | tyqe's lapse of memory, He supplied | the, exact da 4 largo num-| ‘The trial of Senator Burton on rot ie wtatement ita Lar ' to me for advice, but in only one Morris Plains, French was examioed ° but others, and Sinportamt | ycth Maer tnynte Otere Nerihal oF. weit: |ner oe ei s mnade trom Wil. one of having used bie ey vgs are to vialt tia. tay adviea followed and \by De. Wiltlam Hi. McKenste and tr, | aay taut But others: On pe ten? A. They were verbal offers. lersega Be bin a short, ime, Mr went! Une colection of Jameo J.| William . fiieks, the expert aiteniot, | ones he couldn't remember mi ipetenee ot other’ igen }- | brokers Savio At a hw forte # ia oe Lnocgpann gaged t he of James Vitiam ka, the ex : DERI Hass ent | he Breaence of other Individumis? By Hill.es a director. 1 told Mr. Hyde that| who pronowaced him demente: Gest oh ston ‘bent igre tit, MPrtck’e. ofter was’ mate in tho |¢he wartet gow iar tenet a ‘70 CURR A OpLD J Co Si ; Feeenns veers that ® reaponelbilty would be ‘home in Kast Orange ral weeks (aria oinpany was built testified at} | that conne ctlon, (Alviy_W, Keech, brew Did you ever know they were 10 : Pel falling on him for which he should ago with sending two infernal | past Squire tha | told George | Ment of the Kquttable Truat,) a, | members your pheparé himself by surrounding himsel! {1 to Valertine Riker, a westithy | 9 ae. had poallted:to ihe ok nt ah: woud "continued | ede. ‘to one 0 committee? A. No, ait. I one heard With strong and independent men resident of I Orange. Mt Rae oe eee eee in the wusbinr tack and] And Ataryeniers: that] tive cwent we have any interview H The moat that the witness could tei in addition hed recelved a number of | > ‘the Lawyers’ Title and Law-| (nterést In the Shipbultding settlements; Whee he aoqiiaition t dlvectors’ meetings In the Equi Hand” tettern demanding large | {Orth of the Lawye® Taek AR RARE T hate eiea variate Le Pa ban aaa th le Was that there were Jaudatory ré- | sums Bait ark torinected\ witb the Sininsranh oe ft e aheot of officers adopted and appraised, | These oe were finally traced t Mr, is bi mg aba? we) gnterprive. I whan {0 moat emphatically, of your ‘compan rtd ett yeni i stralghjowey business. young French, who was arrested w 1 find, Mr, Hughes, said Mr. Hyde qj PD itwas Miypesivie for Harriman to re. lowering In vielnity of the Kiker | when he flest took the slund to-day, | i ¥ i ted : yome, after the millionaire ‘had re st during the excitement of tes! to gg with ie Hoty hay anythtag |pelved the two Infernal machines which | tifying yesterday afternoon I must have Lapse of Memory. ACCUSES RACING SECRETARY Now Loi young man admitted that he had | m are it pit ny: vitee A agra It was! when Hughes tenahed thi t OPEN gen an woul e to oO “| point in his examination ot yde w | French tater confessed to having | ment, You asked me, I belleve, whether the menwry ot the snecuaer of oO; 2 aa nic amg (to. wauned weveral fires in Kast Orange, | 1 personally had received any offers for) Harriman and Frick sufte many whe as World = et my stock and I said I had pot pecelved HB. Rice, of Boston, ) . any offer. I wish to correct that state- to phe stock acquired DY |iknown as &. of Boston CHOATE’S CHARITY JOKE. coe, kid sy. 1 ie Yeanlea ULE Adfg, {amurance Roclety 1 lterriers, wal this atternogn at BRONX OFFICE iN t have’ Iterent offers for my mock.” L Bid under aa of March | Company: }che Penn Hotel ‘hirty-ftth attest and q we. Seal oat mn ‘ om aaia| Mr. Hughes Raultable vurchased 2.00 shares, nay. th avenue, ake and i ro c rluye al + SAN ; m the -}t9 Brooklyn, where wt Q Did you receive any offers atter For the convenience of the resi-}| yoseph H. Choute in his sirens vo ¢ |e Prick “woport? "a. "Oubor than dhe Lereagtane. pagurance two day, ifn ae New York Btate Conference of Chari-) Ryan, no. sir March 18, WO, sold eleven hundred of|@ obarge of grand ties and Corrections, at ts meeting In| @, Were any offers made ‘Sh | these shares to Feo, H Raul st the NN Ne ca Carnegie Laveum Inst sight. ile was) conmeetion with any of the prox | Simne price at whlett they Had been he® tei referring to the @iversity of the speclal-| ceedings before the Frick Come | Ti%0, 1g you Know of tha bite pace ”) : less tos oso Street, Head phamtirople and reformatvry -] mtttee oF at m time when the of eh iar lt ais! Peel q ven; utions represented by his © | cor e connected in -y re vou a member of the be nae vg ; ‘The Conference, witich will be In ses- ey nd wiih anch proceedin: y fa Committee at that time? A Yen “the teception of advertise. | sion or the reat of the week, was for- |T think Mr, Frick aud Me, Maret Can yout explain how it wast , scriptions, &e. mally weloomed by Health Commissioner) man made anch an offer, hoth to m hundred out of the two Doriinetas, Président’ Devine’ of the! me personally and to my coun ho h ; ‘ ‘ ' , f ee Nye wired by the Equitable i oy po FEMA! ate adie 4 oy National Conterenew, and Mr. Choate! wet, tno ae ene are °° ig ik ¥ P “ij ; . ‘ hae } ev for the local coniinittee. eronteha) Q. What wa the offer, you. care « | rt : A n i Jes onened the meeting Ty ay i fisthn eee ‘aaae aor the ate to. state? A, Yer, alt; the Offer was ta ference, vevigwed. tive millions for the entire haldings, or 2358 Melrosa, 2359 Melrose, Inert Bios wath Mo ( t tw Am Ria r shaetter No, ar, 1 b ‘ a ty eee} " a) ail r 7 ’ Ant So, 1 7 ¢ F “a 7 PME GF ¢ * ‘y