The evening world., 1905-10-07
HYDE MUST
TESTIFY OR
Ag Be AN EXILE
Insurance ProberS Put Young
Man in Fugitive W.T.
m ness Class.
M'INTYRE, JORDAN, TOO.
Life Of Committee viii Be Pro.
Ionged to Give Vitality 10
Its Subpoenas.
LIKE "REGGY" VANDERBILT.
Son Of Equitable Founder Must Go
on stand or Keep Outside
Bounds OF State,
M'INTYRE, JORDAN, TOO.
LIKE "REGGY" VANDERBILT.

N Jsmes HaEen Hyde, William "A
McIntyre and Thomas D. Jordan per-
s,st IN their refusal 10 go before the
u,sxts,atiye Insurance Committee and
tsH what they know Of the yellow
sox' funds OF the Equitable Life AS
suranoe Society, its political contriou'
tions and profts, they, as officers nave
enjoyed from syndicates at the expense
us the Equitables policy-holders' they
vii NO, only be fugitives Temporarily
but a way viii be found to keep theih
out Of the state OF New YORK longer
than they may wish to stay
This became known to-day ana 'he
,.n,,..l that has bean decided upon py
aha Legislative Committee Is unique =
,.,,orter OF The Evening World was tolc
ohat the committee proposes, aiter u
Aas reported 10 the Legislature 10 ash
80 hs continued In power indefinitely Oh
ss long as the terms OF is menloe,. !.
.h.ll last, and thus hold over bne no'OH. ~.
:, Jvde. McIntyp and Jordan the peIn
:, n.,nr subpoenaed, or the aterna''v'
ot soIps to jail n service ds disooeSea
Like Rsooy Vanderbilt
=. o,,.r words, the commitpee th'nks
.A., 1, can make II quite as unoO'niot'' ~
snl, and Improbable for the tT,o oa ~,
-. x5tnesses as Distriet-Auornt!
Isroma dld for Reggy VanderV'i' N '-''
Dick Canfeld gambling case
Tha .tans OF Hyde and Mcintyre are
aovped hourly by tine subpoena serVes
~ tho committee. Mcintyre was IN bos-
ION Yesterday and held conference
tbere with Hyde. Should either OF them
nut foot an New York he will be seed
to appear before the committee forth.
with and then II the summons should
be disobeyed It will mean nothing short
OF A session behind the bars for "Nio'
lets" and That Red-Haired Mere ~"
as the elder Hyde used 10 call Mcintyre
In his Office boy days.
Jordan has disappeared as completely
as II he had never been. His home in
Englewood, N. j., is constantly under
surveillance. ana people who might lead
subpoena servers to him have been
shadowed for weeks past. The impress
sion generally 10 that the Equitable's 5
former comptroller is on the other side
OF the Atlantic He has not been seen at
tho Equitable Building since he was dis
charged by President Morton He was
last seen by an official OF the society at
his Englewood home on Aug 49,
Jordan Victim Of Advice.
A friend OF Jordan to-day said that
he had purposely refralned from asking
where Jordan was so that he could an
swer truthfully tina, he diu not know
This friend said that Jordan was az
great victim OF too much LEGAL advice
and other kinds, too, as James Haze-
Hyde,
"He is certainly playing the part OF
a fool 10 stay away from this inyes.
tigation" added the speaker
In connection with the legal advice
under which Hyde is laborng comment
has been severe 'and the letter of
Samuel Untermyer, Hydes personal
counsel challenging the powers ot the
Legislative Committee on the ground
that "the Legislature which appointed
II was no longer In existence has caused
many laugh, one prominent lawyer
at the inquiry remarked the other cav
that certain counsel was forgettins
one OF the first elements OF law, which
runs TO the effect that the king nevel
dies and which also comments upou IN,
living entity OF law-maklng bodies