The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-15

nary interest In my absence from the country have become very obvious since then"
 Mir. Hyde was asked what he meant by that and he replied:
 T think they thought they would ac- quit themselves of their friendly duty of stewardship with great profit to them selves"
 MT. Hyde thought MT. Hartman would not have looked on it with great regret. MT. Schiff promised to try to use his friendly offices. Witness said he went to Washington to the White House alone and that MT. Hartman used his friendly offices In the matter. MT. Schiff had some conversation with MT Bliss and witness thought. wrote a letter to the White House. Senator Depew interested himself in a very general way, but MT. Prick was the active agent.
 knifed By MT. Prick.
 The appointment of the Prick com mttee was then gone into and MT. Hyde said:
 MT Hartman led me to believe through a mutual friend that the reports of that committee would be very friendly to me and he did everything he could to dissuade me from selling my stock at the same time doing everything on that committee to knife me and destroy the value of that stock
 MT. Hydes attention was called to the seriousness of these statements, and the replied that he had spent many sleepless- nights and long sad days refecting on them and he made this statement as q matter of reflection and conclusion. MT. Hyde said that the Prick committee in jured him because he did not think the investigation nor the report was in all detail fair He thought that they injured him by conspiracy, using that word after considerable reflection, to deprive him of his rights and seize control of the sp- ciety He thought they were doing every thing they could to destroy the society posing meanwhile as his friends, while on the other hand he was being attacked by MT. Alexander and his friends under the sham of naturalization
 Explaining one of the reasons for his belief that the Prick committee was hos- tile to him, MT. Hyde said
 Wanted Reign of Terror.
 MT. Prick. who was chairman of that committee at the election in February, became a member of the committee and endeavored from the beginning to abso- lutely dominate the entire society and to inaugurate a reign of terror
 Witness said he had had several offers for his stocks in the company from others than MT Ryan and his reasons for sell ing to Mir. Ryan were set forth in his | letter was made public last May and was introduced in evidence today. Mir. Hyde further said that there was no stipulation in the sale to MT. Ryan ndl restriction of any kind by which the stocks were to revert to Mir. Hyde or that he could regain possession of it. MT. Hyde added that Ms Hartman asked him to move the adoption of the Prick report, which MT. Hyde absolutely declined to do as it seemed to him to be condemnatory of everything that evar happened in the society and he was ad- vised by counsel that such step would mean the throwing of the Equitable surely where 1t seemed to be drifting very much at that moment. into the hands of a receiver
 MT. Hyde was excused until tomorrow, and Haley Fiske, vice-president of the Metropolitan Life, took the stand to make several corrections in his testimony of last Friday, after. which the committee adjourned for the day
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