Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-19
I'CURDY IS REBUKED
[ughes and Beck Clash In
 Insurance Graft Hunt. 4
IND, PRESENT, MAY CAUSE ARREST
|utual Life Kept Open House at
 Albany For Legislative Commit- tee Men-Missouri Requests nANu~


 Delay. : #NEW YORK, Oct. 19. = President slchard A. McCurdy of. the Mutual fe Insurance company, who had al- =a6y been before the insurance com
 ittee twice, was again the main wit
 lss.
 Astounding revelations of the most ~nsational since the legislative insur- Zee investigation began marked it's
 ssion.
 It was shown that for ten years or
 ore Andrew c. Fields has maintain
 in Albany an establishment at the
 lpense of the Mutual Life Insurance empany, in which his fellow lodgers bring portion of that time were lnators Graney and Charles McClel- nd of the Westchester district, both
 whom were members of the insur-
 Ice committee in the legislature.
 Unfinished inquiry by Chief Inquis- ,r Hughes about the Hotel Grosvenor,
 Tenth street and Fifth avenue, own
 by the Mutual Life and once large
 patronized by President McCurdy Fl Id his wife and by his son-in-Iaw, luis A. Thebaud, and Vice President ,Eanniss, brought forth passage at ms between General Solicitor Beck
 the Mutual and Chief Inquisitor sighes, in which Chairman Armstrong bk a hand, and even McCurdy him.
 If finally participated, siding with
 committee against the aspersions
 his own counsel. Beck was afraid Ut Mir. Hughes inquiry might give public the idea that the McCurdys
 d been utilizing their influence fin the htual Life to get reduced rentals fin wn, and he imputed to Mir. Hughes a irit of unfairness.
 | Then MT. Hughes made a ringing
 eech. in which he said that every wit E,ss who treated the committee cor ally would be treated in turn with e utmost respect, but that those who gre evasive would be treated with e contempt which their conduct mer- Id, which sentiment was so loudly lsplauded by the large audience that lairman Armstrong had to warn the lditors that any repetition of such a h1onstration would result In their ex- lsion hereafter.
 IA point of incidental interest to those Ibsely following the investigation was e news from Missouri that the speak of the house of representatives for lat state had requested delay in the loposed reyoking of the New York fe Insusance company's insurance in Ider that policy holders might take lncerted action.
 Senator W. W. Armstrong, chairman
 the committee, scathingIy rebuked I, A. McCurdy and his counsel for in- lnating that the inquiry was being l,nducted in an inquisitorial and un- ir manner. This was after Mir. Beck ktd practically accused Mir. Hughes of Having the witness in an unfair posi- p5n by quickly changing from one line w questioning to another. While Mfr. eek was speaking he referred to Mir. 1'cCuriy as a man of "unblemished \ Nputation" This was a signal for and cat calls and cries of ''No!' GSor' from the gallery.
 is George ]. Plunkitt, a telephone opera for L. W. Lawrence 6 Co, was aIled A voucher acknowledging the sisceapt of sD01.15 flor legal expenses as February. 1905" which was signed the name of George F. Plunkitt- Id indorsed for payment by A c. teIds was shown to the witness. and was asked if the signature was bis. ' tte saId IL wss not his. At the request nt MT. Hughes be then wrote his name .s)r purposes of comparison and both - gnatures were offered in evidence. UT. Hughes called the attention of the \ oSmmIttee to the similarity of the two = Enatures. Piunkitt said that he had . ever had soo1-1s for any purpose.
 At the close of Plunkittis testimony .-pe sergeant at arms of the legislative .5nnfttee vas directed to communi- ats with the district sttorney's once. ..hortiy afterwsrd Assistant District . sftorney Rand appeared. conferred .s ffh Chairuan Armstrong and left the 1n
 = Wnlisu N Csrpenter. s clerk i1 the -1pplT department Of the Mutual Life. ras called He said ss aw Mr- 1etfs last on Oct b Kinrston. \. =. Fislds tod Czrpenter ke vas g. r 0 ssgthsrn czlf1raia co eco ss Hzzz'.