The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-14
JEROME UNABLE ID GET
 REPORT ON EQUITABLE
CANNOT SECURE EVIDENCE GIVEN TO SUPERINTEND- ENT OF INSURANCE.

Thinks It aFunny1-Has Order of Cow
 ernor for It but TriHes Are Thrown in
 the Way-First Deputy superintend-
 ent of Insurance Wants Receipt Re-
 fore Delivering It-Jerome Demands
 That Copy be Furnished to Him with-
 out Qualification.
 New York, July IS. District Attorney sJerome to-day made an unsuccessful attempt to secure from the office of First Deputy Superintendent of Insur- anee Robert H. Hunter in this city a copy of the detailed evidence on the af- fairs of the Equitable Life Assuraucs society taken before Superintendent of Insurance Hendricks. This is the re- port which already has been printed, and of which MT. Jerome yesterday said it was funny that he could not obtain a copy when newspaper seeur- ed and printed it. After failure to get the report to-day the district attorney, sent Deputy Superintendent Hunter letter in which he said that he had Gog efnor Higgins order for copy of report and requested that it be deliverz ed totone of his assistants. MT. Hunter declined to comply with the request unless MT. Jerome could prove that the copy in MT Hunters hands was the property of Superintendent Hendrcks and would agree to return 1t within a reasonable time. when requested to io so. MT Jerome then sent another let~ ter to MT Hunter, in which he detailed all the correspondence which had pass= ed between himself and Governor .Hie- glns on the subject, as well as copies of the letters exchanged by the district attorney and Mir Hendricks. Conclud- ing, the letter says:
 This morning sent my assistanf MT. Tlirnbuli to you, in view of vS,iS leseer to me, to ask that he be given a copy, as promised by the governor in HIS letter of June 2S. My assistant VT. MT Iurnbull, informs me, in substance that you said you would deliver Cory p me II l would give you something over my signature to show that fhs eopy was the property of the superi1a teiident of Insurance, and would. irl s.tiz dltion, state that would return it Wlllill 2 a reasonable time and when ca
 II ls always the habit Of this offics to receipt for slapers ssnd always 4hss. custom of this office to return uaners ios the custody where they belong. hiif II sls not the custom of this office. noF VIII the district atturney agree, .to rsL turn 1sLl upon demand to a subordinate < copy of evidence directed to De flIrn3sl,s ed by the governor of the state of New K York. n 7s K sS'a S
 z. regret that there should Be anv 8 aisunderstanding about this mattaT. ana ask that you deliver to me. withz out ualification or conditions, coyv .of the testimony taken by the supe,siTs. 1,s. 1endent of Insurance, pursuant to fhs promise made by the Superintendent of 5 insurance x sll to the governor. Upon fa,a delivery of this I will receipt for # ana VII answer to your superiors for ifs saie custody and return at the proner
 MT. Jerome said tonight. lover a,,d beyond what is shown by the corras spondenee ! want to say I believe Gov- sernor <. Higgins has done everythinp sp his power sto aid me in getting possess ~ sion l.. of the testimony taken by s,,nsr. 1ntendent Hendricks. ' < 'sA's
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