The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1906, Page 1

P RICE ONE. “AND BERKING ARE INDICTED SIX TIMES ew York Life Officials ; Accused of Disguising « Stock Transactions. HE JURY APOLOGIZES. Panuary Body Will Keep on Probing Scandals Found by tls Armstrong Committee. + "The first action of importance that 3 been taken to punish the men who re found by the Armstrong Invest!- ting Committee to have juggled Ute jurance company funds ts cr Ahe Decembert fcted George W. Per Fairchild to-day. are There ictments hgainst each may, Mr. Perkins is 2 members’ the firm J. Plerpont Morgan & Co. and was vice-president of the New ork Life Insurance Company. Mr, ircplld was a member of'the Finance i YORE, Sw Oe jommittee of the New.York Life and of the New York Secuticy + Company. He !s-!n Europe. r. Perkins was in court when the ‘n- fctments were handed down end gave 8,008 bail. ¢ When the indictments had been filed e Grand Jury handed tn a remark- fe presentment, amounting to an polosy to the two men indicted. In ther words, the Grand Jury sald that © Indictments were found only be- | use the law made the action manda. | ory. | Louls Delafield, counsel for Mr. Per- | (@t\na,took-névantage of this and asked Bhat his client be released on parole. le peld that the presentment had the effect of rendering the indictmnts of no jexal value. “You are mistaxen,” sala Recorder ff. “The preséntment [Is no part of Mahe indictment ard would have no more Geffect! than a recommendation for ;,{Asked for Perkins’s Parole. ‘o-day'a indictments will probably be followed by others. Contrary to genera! Helief all the offenses uncovered by the Armstrong cémmittee will not be out- jawed by the statute of limitations on Dee 3 The only transaction to which the statute applied was that upon the so-called Prussian bonds deal. The January Grand Jury will take’ud x cember Grand Jury ‘eft, off. There gro other cases m stronger, in the} openion of lawyers--than that which} Mr, Fairchild | twelve indict : Five years ago the Prussian Govern- ment passed a law prohibiting —Amert- life insurance companies doing Dusinese in that country-from holding @y anets the stocks of rallroad com- Jed in the United States. Tho New Nork{Life Insurance Company was do- Any business in Prussia and held rall- road /storks. Books and records of the Hecompany show that, in order to deceive thé Prussian Gov ment, 10, shares of the stock of the Chicago and. North- Mowestern Ratlroad and 3,9) shares of stock of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. transferred to the curity and Trust Co. a sub- ation of the New York Transaction Was Disguised. banks cof tle company the} on Was a9 Gixguised as to ap- pear to be'bona fide. As a matter o! fact the stocks never changed hands ‘A colored porter named Marshall and a clotk named Mattison gave notes for| thom, The deal was engineered by Mr. Yerkins and. Mr. Falrch td. From testimo ¥ gathoped by the Arm- charge of perjury. | tlce was that Mrs. Murrey had been mu SING SING FOR BURNHAM. i jr. himsef! to iagistrate Crane, If Centre Street Court, this afternoon, after learn- ing a warrant been issued. Nagle is charged with violating the AJ. CASSATT, PRESIDENT - PEIN AD. ~ DROPS DEAD Business-World Shocked by Sudden Annonnce- ment of His Death. le of Ba HAD A GREAT CAREER. |Henry C. Frick, George c| Baer; Henry Tatnall Named as Probable Successors. 1ig econd floor of t (Spectal to the, Pyening Worl.) PHILADELPHIA, Dax, 2—Alexander chen of Johnston Cassatt, President of the shop, an Pennsylvania Ratlroad died unexpected- of tut ad No. 14 from Eas ly this afternoon at his city home. No. 202 West Rittenhouse Square. Tra! first | announcement of hin 4 came tn the it unde following bulletin, which had been post- ed at his office tn this city “Br. A, J. Cassatt, President of the L : Pennsylvania Rallroad, died sudd c ested fot heart disease at 1P. M. to-day. The intl we 14 S¥tptoms were those known to the 4S W6ll AS |!) profession as the Stokes-Adama fyn- boxes. He hadcore. and. as Is often the case under soy at Broad and thane clzeumatences death was instant- \ did rely ancous. ‘| The death of Mr. Cassatt removes vectton of the Election law relating to jatertoring with the duties of tion officer, committed at the pr! of Dan O'Reilly undi Jan, 3 Col. William D. d'Alton Mann, the bearded olg pudlisher of Town Topics, | broke down and, wept aloud to-day aut. ing the summing up speech of hia coun- sel, Martin W. Littleton, who.ts defend- ing him before Recorder Goff on the It was the moat dramatic moment of the trial. At one point Littleton, referring to Moses Ellis Wooster, a former canvas- ser for Col. Mann's book, “Fads and Fancies,” who had testified against him, used this language: “Wooster hoodwinked Count Ward would find out that he Prostituting the columns of and because he was swind! fo Col. Mann'—is facing th fase! of his long life Woost © befriended, spake in the grass and stings that fed him” Here Col. The jury will get the case to WOMAN FELL TO DEATH. BOSTON, Deq, 28—The body of Mra. Nellie Murrey, of Charlestown, which was found to-day partly clad and tying in the snow in the yard of the Maesa- chusetts General Hospital, at the West End, furnished for a time @ myntgry’ such as the police have not haddn han; in months. The first theory of the po The conviction of George Burnham, of stealing $7,800 of the funds of tho Mutual Reserve Fund Life Aaso- ciation, of which he was vice-president this oad other similar etrotig Committe exbvsed ‘The law 14 | that any fa! a corp ati- | tutes Jn the third desree:!zt Jaspers “Dist ney Wd- | vised the GAvad Jury menta | Baus be (0. ong [is "yf # apolos anded {3 R Goff by the forcma Jerome Advised Action. “The Grand Jury of the County of > Now York Impanelled for the December, Mau, Corm of court respectfully present That in Ming billa o¢ ind egaina(\two persons for offenses com- pale in covnection with the aftaira of ww York Life Insazance Company oe Ghund Jury presents that in accept. Situs tho aw of thegé cases ay adviaed by fthe District-Attorney, they, felt con- 2 ptrained to find the Indictmonts this day e Grand Jurors, how desire ta “ir conviction in doing the defendants were by to bene ersof tae Nog York Ui ance /Coapany; tnai the def Agmeclven ie any way personal: done, and that the evidence conclusive: wed that a large peounlary profit “qntinuad: an Boaond Page.) FAIA Bo “te | tx onot CONGRESSMEN AT PANAMA. COLON,’ Des. 2%—The steamer Al- Manca, having on board Senator Frank P, Filnt, of California, and s party of ten Congressmen, who are ‘going: to KILLED GIRL AND HIMSELF, PORTLAND, Oregon, 28.—-An Itallan from San Francisco cate name known killed a: young woman eee but a leg was broken. dered and dragged to the pla the body was found, from a t topsy, however, satisfied. Moc amtnor Harris that the woman suffecated,: apparently wh'le from a window and,had fallen were not marks of violence 4 Uflcate of reasonabje doubt in Burnbam ts in the | Ton be transfer to Sing Sing to serve oul a sentence of two years by Justi ang counsel, wax legal, according to | Saum. ‘Justice O'Gorman, of the Supreme} Justice O'Gorman handed Court, who this afternoon dented a cer- | opinian, Se fee 1 this country. said his nams Wiison, WARRANT-OUT FOR NAGLE, HE SURRENDERS HIMSELF Percy Nagle, mene leader of the ‘Thirtieth Assembly District, surrepdered The alleged off¢hse was | sy y election on Sept. 18. Nagle was paroled in custody Ward because he (Wooster) was a fendant’s paper to his own bo And now when this old) man— turna on him Mann broke down. Joining the hospital’ enclosure. | probably the keenest executive mind th the railroad business in this or any other country. Bealdes being the active managing head of the greatest trans- portation system in the world Mr. Cas- satt was the president and virtual dic- tha He tator of mix large mzbeldiary companies and a dire in nearly thirt} more. He was in ixtyseia’hth For th eexion’ to cheerdeney of the Pennsyivanta three men aro al- ready being mentioned—Henry C. Frick, of Pittsburg and Now: York; George F. Baer, now Presklent of the Reading, and Henry Tatnall, at present Vice- an clec-! President and Treasurer of the Pean- ania, and ono of Mr. Cassatt's trusted Ueutenants, Had Been III for Months Although to-day’s death came with shocking suddenness it had been Cassatt 1 mes it was Reginald ted that he could It but a few | Weeks, and once it was said that he as actually dying. In ly these had bess tide de, | f2POFts Were dented,-although the pub- tosee {2° Pellet that bis physical strength e Ward.| 72% Waning raptdly appeared to’ be is Ward: ; borne out by the fact that he kept in “pointing | Seclusion at hia splendid home, greatest in Haverford, a suburb of whom Uke a the hand 5. rough, the first causes of death date back to an apparently trivial iilncas, In July whtie at Bar Harbor ho caught whooping cough from of his grandchildren. The attack went very hard with him. Earler in the year startling revelations of graft ~, | Among his subordinates tn the company ' © made before the Interstate Con @ Commission. It wax sald at ¢ that these disclosures proved ry Rreat shock to Mr. Cassatt. night. where iso ad- An au- ce ho dical Ex- His Rapid Rise. had betn | Mtr Cassate born in Tea Sing [35305 was @duocated In G: There} at the Polytechnic 1 about the neryicu of rapid. By 18}9 he had be the First Vive- In 18 resigned that @nd did not again bold an*oftciat his case, awaiUnig | ome ce Green| position tn the company uatit he twas} lected to the Presidency in 1889. Last down no! May, shen strong dissensions devel- | oped sanong ‘the s! the | Y wing the rebating scandals, | of the defeated } within & year Mr. Caasart d oUt of tho Presidency, hagement would bo re- mudy the Canal problem, arrivell here | orgdnized, with George F. Baer at its to-day from New York, Dec. The | head. | Tatitators toft ‘Colon, toon atten th This quarrel in what -had been for arrival, by special train for Panama, zation’ gave ip concern, and was| here to-day, fatally stabbed and then killed bimnelt, eccgadtone coeds FOR FOREST. RESERVE, WASHINGTON, Dee! 2.—The Acting Commissioner of the Gosoral Land Offloy to-day announced the Ua ot UNION cry, Tenn,, Dec. %. 0 acres of lan? locuted | tex 0, Colored and (C athe forest reserve ‘purposes. a [Tem His body was, found railroad tracks, TED. ibuting source of ent bad hoalth: ° | | nia more ri Gtraightened the Tangle. ope at.the time this fo was in I Mereeunt sencnie developed. He hurried Home at once. His maltertul hand quelled the storm, In | Herlying Influences which continued to } oppose him, although: mee hy 1 8 i hold on the contre! of vast trunk line, is Farlrosd ing alépartinent t hie Intere of | He Was Nero Lae last at him office ation on Dec, 8, In his no had spent eat the RESULTS EDITION J PRICE ONE CENT. = coe “ Circulation Books Open to Au.” DECEMBER 28, 1900. MATHOT QUITS: AS | BINGHAM’S DEPUTY — ee W.L. Mathot, Bingham’s _ The Resignation Is Said to Have Been Deputy, Who Resigned| Fromptly Accepted by the Police Commissioner, and to. Take Effect on January 1. OFFICIALS DISAGREED Commissioner Was Displeased by Statements Made by, His Deputy During thé Trial—Ex. cuse Given for Resignation Is Desire to Resume Law Practice. The Evening World has learned frm an authéritative source that William L. Mathot, Third Deputy Police Commissioner, has resigned his | office, and that the resignation has been accepted, ostensibly with regrehy by Commissioner Bingham. The resignation is due to take effect, it is said, on Jan. 4{ but as yet | no. announcement has been made of the fact. Nor is there’as yet any gossip regarding Mathot’s, prospective successor. But, if the recent talk holds good, the place will go to some tstog $! young cotillion leader of society who never sv Police Headquarters, TROUBLE OVER CARUSO CASE es Ever since the Caruso trial it haa teen reported that Mr, Mathotts official scalp was desired by the head of the department. 1n his defense of Policeman Cain at the hearing of Caruso/ Mathot made a lot of stato: | ments which falled to stand the acid test of investigation. Gen. Bing- }ham showed his disploasure at the time and ft is eald that, he scolded this young @gputy pretty severely, | Mathot's' resignation is reported to have gone in very soon thereafter, | The excuse'he gave was a desire to re-enter the practice of law. The ‘Commissioner's acceptance of the resignation was promptly forwarded to him. : SECRET LEAKS OUT, 6 Efforta haye been made to keep ihe matter a secret, but it leaked by Ny jaccident. Mathot succeeded Third Commissioner Mack, who was bounceé ! trom the force with a sputter of verbal fireworks last March. The departure of ‘Mathot will mark the fourth change in the Commis sioner’s oficial ‘staff within less than a roonth. Two weeks ago Wirst Deputy Waldo resigned and was succeeded by Second Deputy O'Keeffe, of Brooklyn. Capt. Bugher, a general favorite in society, succeeed O'Keeffe by eppointment. LONG SHOTS GET MONEY IN NEW ORLEANS RACES | NEW ORLEANS RESULTS, ASE RELD OW BRIBERY CHARGES IN $2,000 BAIL HER HAIR AFIRE ROM BLAZING. LACE CURTAINS Mrs. Parker, Mother-in- Law of L. E, Waterman, in Grave Danger. Pitz at 20 to 1 aS Out Fa- vorite Toboggan in the Third Race. Lawyer Declares He Paid Him $150 for Discharge of a Client. = | | FIRST RACE —Judge 'Surroughs (12 to 1 and to 1) 1, Spider Web (2 to 1 for place) 2, Sea Water 3, I i : ___ | SECAND RACE—Kohinoor (5 to 3W: ORLEANS.) 2 and even) 1, Luzarion (2 to 1 for i 28, FAIR GRO! i rt » | Dec. ti.—Heavy fields of cheap horses A woman with colffure of flame ges- Herbert Mase, y clerk | ite up the card at Fair Grounds to- place) 2, John Peters 3. .ured frantically to-day in a fourth. Of the Cour was | gay, presenting a problem to play: s| tory window of the Hotel Calvert, at « his afternoon by that was not at all relished. Five of} THIRD RACE—Pity (20 to 1 and the northeast corner of Lrondway and he six mces were at distances of @}8 to 1) 1, Toboggan (2 to 8 for Forty-first street.. Hundreds passed be ire was oniy one Thee) place)-2, Refined 3, was no feature, and low her unsectng, w the w Neeareea i —— hair a the near-by, cudtains blazed Dass to call fe af FOURTH RACE—Kittie Platt (2 | furiously. % 0 1 and % to 5) 1, Omar t In a room of the Bar ) Khayam (8 nature of the pros to 1 for place) 2, Delphle S~ site a maid, Mary Loveso: ing the windows, when sho saw Ul seh ede tt ae » ths ae nd woman tras to the nwhtch the warrant |down but made the ng iceman oli ata sttapt Mrs. LA Thomas Donohue, Holmes. Dt promi on, wan fost amd the wea 0 h cloudy. Donohue rang the fire-nlarm box and Aida ds aa A dasied into the h From the District-Attorney's |) FHRST NACE—Seyen-elghts of a m to the Office ‘ran across): » ntion of | welghts floors came cries and sb . _ st E in the récords a week or so pucroom nd }atart and made the runuing, followed by Pe the enn spr Sbe hed *. ax and became curious to, know what |pity 9 ned. They hold this order eersey Donohue’ rushed ‘pa asl Soa sear pho eal ct) 9 thé Where Pity went to the of chorus girls turning out In pajamas Pag Pecome of the cal a i front and won by a leniNh fram Tobog- of all shades and. reac the fourth || He Went to the oMce of Clerk Culkin ; gun, who beat Refined twolenkths. eA E Se Recenhetet ocd sk cvoninken of the Court of Special Sessions, and | Gri Hirai, 1 has - i an 7 | aske for the papers In the Holmes | Horal Bond, 122, . ul brigade at work, a Nadine, 0, McCabe , Wille Donohue was rinsing the box They were produced, and’ to hia | Sayeed Hoang CASTELLANE HOLDS HIS Austia surprise, be ic know that Holmes been placed on trial, théy ischarged.’ thrown open ause the door of rosm 410 wa and the occupa: Mra mother-in-law of L. SEAT IN DEPUTIES. neve Twon of the fountain pen int uwity In tracing the woman about fifty years ed Wad ltnmiediataly 2) Latest Election of Count Bont ta the hallway, dressed Kee ~Attorney then et the Thamber De- beating at the flames t were sear- Holmes’s law and Bea | 4 ing her nead and arms.) A maid named : nim to eee hy be pon fens Ba AAS | Wal er a len Ie | drs, Parker's assistance, and esd riearnense ite tah aey pare trsty RHSe | Dept to-day ed that the latest risk of burning her own hands, man- hod Mase used, ; even | election Tei Castallatie’ bo. aged to sm r the fire. x was armigned before 2)the Cham r Mra, Parkgr's cris arounod tht Roori mad uldera ene f even! employees abd guests. Jim Honey, the t wsia sfined cat $2 ‘ 1) Bee PAT lava ibe Bose atid AWVlliaxas ax ree Ont A Ee ‘ | 0] COSTLY CHRISTMAS GIFT. an otta up and - 108," Beckman rr res H nhoasy x a ail been summoned, she told the story | hrivaas pies | tone Joseph Riley, of ss Brooklyn, Waa She letruek cunts. for Jomwph's As me did the rooma df andi * Sortoty, cy of a all the w Hospital ty winning in @ hot drive by a licht-year-old Charles Hanlon, F Fae id third all the wa | Joe nh was shooting at a tomato cam o SE Ree | aa HACE this afternoon when the Hanlon. boy Breve ppaned. ld the other at When Mrs. Parker Was boing attended | fusnd to allo ambulance call apne in Prey min tr non the Lefket in ri Ao. MA by Dr. Toula Stara, of | wont. and was privately treated tn’ a Tet esansadey, of, Cb nfiicting @ aerious but not fn No. at Wont ‘Chirtytourth atregi, who] room provided for her, Plarotc, i i yy a - QVER THE CARUSO CASE. pilecentaiaii i i