The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-24

only in a fair manner
THE PAPERS WHICH sWERE
REMOVED.
An exceedingly unpleasant aspect at
tends the alleged removal OF certain pa
pers from the possession of the trustees
by the persons Interested in the sale of
the Kansas Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany to the Kansas Union. The papers
contained only a list of names of the
policy holders but were presumably de-
sired so that the promulgators of the
scheme to sell out the Kansas Mutual
might correspond with the policy hold
ers in relation to the proposed reorganI-
cation in order that the Kansas Union
or the National Life might be given the
advantage when the plan to sell was put
to a vote.
II. G. r. Schwarzkopf, who is charged
with being personally implicated in the
removal of the missing papers, has left
town and his whereabout are un-
known. The others officers of the Kan
sas Mutual and Kansas Union proclaim
their ignorance of his Wherea bouts J.
z. Moon is also absent but he is in IN
diana on business. Tt is understood
that Mr.. SchWarzkOpf ordered Harry
French a clerk in the office Of the Kan
sas Mutual Life Insurance company
to take the receipts and the other
papers out of the vault in which they
were kept and to put them in a vacant
room. French carried out his instruc-
tions and the papers were lost track of
Immediately afterward-
The information was fled by Mr.. Cole
without the knowledge of the attorneys
upon either side and was a surprise to
the attorneys for the plaintiff in mar
ticuar. The entire paper follows:
Now comes George +. Cole, one cf
the trustees and respectfully causes the
court to know and be informed that on
or about March 13, 1898. or between said
date and March Is, there was abstract
ed from the custody Of said the sa:d
trustees L certain packages, consisting
of receipts which the policy holders of
the Kansas Mutual Life Insurance com
pany had signed i'm response to the cir
cular letters sent cut ia relation to the
attempted transfer of the Kansas Mu-
tual to the Kansas Union Life Insur-
ance company.
Your relator is informed and believes
and charges the fact to be that the said
packages are now in the custody Of
some of the officers of the Kansas Tn
ion Life Insurance company; that said
packages We're kent in the vault in the
building occupied by the trustees and
We're caused to be secretly removed
therefrom through the direction and in
stigation of one il G. r. SchwarzkoDf,
the second vice president OF the Kansas
Union Life Insurance company. Your
relator has deWa nded the return of said
packages of slips from such of the Off
GERS of the Kansas Union Life Insurance
company as he has been a bic to see, but
no return has been made.
Your relator further respect
fully causes the court to know and he
informed that It has lust come to his
knowledge that there Is existing and out
Of the possession of the trustees a COM
piete list of the Solicv holders of the
Kansas Mutual Life Insurance company,
prepared upon cards, giving fun eX-
hibit of the policies, with the name and
address of each policy holder
Your relator is informed and believes
and charges the fact to be that the said
list is in the possession of the officers
of the Kansas L Ion tife Insurance
company or its attorney r. T. Her
rick or Chester J. Mcpherson. an off,
Ger of the National Life Insurance com
pany of the United states, all OF which
said parties are acting in conjunction
with each other in retaining said lis-
and in the use which is being made and
threatened to make thereof
Your relator is unable to fix the re-
sponsibilftv for either the abstracting
the said list from the records of the
Kansas Mutual Life Insurance company
or for withholding it from the posses
sion and custody of the trustees. but i
is one of the parties aforementioned or
all of them. Your relator has made de-
mands upon the officers of the Kansas
Union Life Insurance company Tor the
surrender of the said list, but said de-
7nands have been refused. BY reason OF
the premises, your relator lays the fore
going information before the court and
prays for such order in the premises as
may be proper"
The officers of the Kansas Union Life
insurance company. whose names are
not given above. who are cited to appear
before the court today are J. P Davis,
J. e. Moon and W NJ. Welcome.
President J P Davis of the Kansas
Mutual Life Insurance company said to-
day to a reporter for the State jour-
nal:
several days ago Mr.. Cole Informed
me of the loss of the papers which he
mentions as having been taken from his
possession told him that [ did not
know anything about their removal but
would gladly lend him my assistance
for their recovery, and I did all I could
10 locate them After failing to make
any discovery of their whereabouts
reported to him. informing him that
thought likely they were in the posses
sion of Mr.. Mcpherson.
Mr. Davis stated that he did not
know where Mr. SchwarzkOpf was but
did not believe he had left the city. He
had not seen Mr. SchWarzkopf for day
or two. however
However Mr. Schwarzkopf simphhed
matters by appearing on the scene this
afternoon. He said that he had been in
Kansas City on business
CLARK IS SELECTED.