The sun., 1900-12-28
INSURANCE SOCIETY ROW
ATTI an, Avn ASSISTANT JAIIED FOR
STEALING IT'S PaPERS
Rc,ort Through Their Counsel That Ths,'d
Bsen Ordered TO Make Improper Reports
of the Provident savins. IIfc, Affairs

Morton I Mortimer. the actuarv Of the
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society Of
3is Broadway. aud John " Van Kleeck. tn"
assistant actuary. wero arrested last night
on warrant issued by Magistrate deuel..
charging them with stealing the company's
list of polry holders and conspirng with
other Tor tho benefit Of some other company
u wreck the concern by which they were
mplnNed
The two prisoners are cousins. Mortimer
live at - Nest rhirtl --eCond street and Van
Kleeck at iol West iiath street. They were
arrested at Broadway and Ihirty-~econd
street and locked ny in the Tenderloin police
station They notified their LAWYER. Frederick
Stimson of J5 Liberty street. a he got
Magistrate Meade to go to the police station
at 10 o'clock and accept bail. The bondsman
was William ii. Browning OF Is West Fifty
fourth street.
Delancey Nicoil.. counsel for the Provi-
dent savings Life A -sursnce Society. drew
up the complaint According Ia a state
ment made Ev Magistrate Deuel. last night
il is very strong and voluminpus. Ralph
X Hubbard. assistant secretary Of the com
pany, j. the deluuent lie asserts that be
ten Nov / and Dec 10 OF This year Mortimer
and Van hleeck approprieto tod To- their own
Use the li-ts. records ana books Of he oom-
pany; that they conspiTed with others TO
form an agency of and to act "a agents f9r
dent savings Life Assurance society, that
Tor this purpose they ordered and directed
10 make for The use and benefit OF the pris-
oucrs lists Of the company policy bolders
IN the nitsd states and Canada. together
with their addresses, the amount ana form
of each policy, the date Of its maturity and
tue date and amount Of the last payment
These lists according 10 the complain, Wcro
the company aud removed from the offC"~
at S46 broadway TO the rooms occI led by
M9Ttiper at "a West I@hir,y-seoonhd @ hi siaet,
Mortimer's room aud he found there Morti-
mer and Van kleecs and also som" of the lists.
books and palers which. no says oe!onseu 20
In his CONF aint. Mr.. Hubbard says. how
| ever. that h. be"ves that the prlSon"ts
| did not deliver all OF the company property
| in their possession. bat that on the contrary
| they kept lists and other papers OF the value oi
| $500. The sum of $500 il said 20 he nominal
| lhe charge made against Mortimer ana
| Van kleeck Is that of grand larceny. II IL
probable that there Will ne other arrests
Lawyer StimsOiI. COUNSEL Tor TIE PRISONERS,
| made this statement last night.
NV clients we're requested by certain
| superior officers Of their company 70 make
certain entries and Reports IN manner that
they were unwilling to do lhesc rerQrt,
| were made from the actuarvs books. and of
every report they made they Kept copi"@,
| They had q perfect right t. keep cori"~ oi
| their own reports for their own ssioty. ON Ia"
| 10Th of December certain Officials Hppearcd
at the rooms Of my clients with certain other
they forcibly took possession Of these dupli-
SopeS vii nnS Se G!Io ot II th. case be-
| fore We Get through
Two clerks of the provldent. Savings Life
Assurance, society we're recrg'iy dlsfhar1ed a
| information for the benefit Of rival con-
cern, II was said then that the clerks were
only sss o%s Scott & ,SGy sS9Es men
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society.
The society Il capitalized at 100000.