The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-19
TO. JORDAN
Is MISSING
Formerly Comptroller Of the
Equitable Life.
HIS SON DOESN'T KNOW.
Mother Is Also Absent and Frank B.
Jordan Doesn't Know Where She
Is, Either--Mccurdy Re
called to Stand
HIS SON DOESN'T KNOW.

New York, Oct. 19.-Frank B. Jordan.
son Of Thomas ID. Jordan, formerly comp
troller Of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, was an important witness be-
fore the insurance investigating commit
tee yesterday. He said he had been in
the fire insurance and real estate BUSH
ness for Is years.
Where is your fatherf" asked Charles
E. Hughes.
Il don't know
sWhen did you last see hims"
s.On Labor Day." said the witness.
as he at his home in Englewood?"
@No.''
"When did he leave there n
Con the Tuesday after Labor Day"
Young Jordan said the EngIewood
house was now in charge of caretaker.
Tie Elder Jordan, he continued, was last
at his town house, IS West Eighty-flfth
street, on June Is. He did not know
whether any one was forwarding mail
to the absent one. lie presumed his
father was still alive. He was asked If
there were other members Of his FAM
lily, and replied that his sister, Mrs. Ed
ward 0'Brien, lived somewhere in Har-
lem, but he did not know the address.
His mother. he said, had also depart
ed for regions unknown Her home, be-
fore she went away, had been at IS
West Eighty-fifty street.
ADo you want to be understood as
testifying that you don't know where
your father and mother are, or whether
they are dead or alivew asked one of
the committeeman.
II do" said the witness.
| After saying that he knew Of no rea-
son for his fathers absence, but that
the elder Jordan's trips away from town
were frequent, he was excused. Mr..
Hughes told him he would be expected
to remain under subpoena and within
lcall OF the committee.
After President McCurdy Of the MH-
ltual had been recalled to the stand and
put through d close questioning, J. NJ
Beck, bis attorney said:
without intending to do 50, no
doubt, Mr.. Hughes, you frequently lead
up to a point that gives the newspapers
chance to put in imputations against
Mr.. McCurdy"
| II have tried to give Mr.. MeCurdy an
opportunity to tell everything he knows
about this business of the GrosvenoT
apartment house, and other matters
land If he does not realize this fact,
do not know what / can tell him fur
Their" Mr. Hughes answered.
| AIr. Beck replied: 'You are asking
him thousand things, some Of which
took place quarter Of a century ago.
Chairman Armstrong interrupted 1T
| has occurred TO this committee that both
the counsel and the witness are en-
titled to make the fullest and best sng-
gestions. This witness iustifes his at
titude, which was such, by his own de-
claration Of his purpose in attempting
to answer, or in stating how much he
! could answer, the inquiries made, as to
cause him to believe that this committee
was an inquisition and was conducting
an unfair inquiry, and your remarks, Mr..
Beck, are TO the same effect.
"This committee is here to make a
fair and honest inquiry into the facts
concerning the business and affairs Of
| life insurance companies, and the wit
Inesess and counsel that appear will have
| just the position before the committee
that they themselves create for them
selves
Il think Mr. Hughes viii bear me out
when I say that no request that he has
made Of counsel for the Mutual Life for
Information has been ignored Mr.. Beck
declared.