The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-29
AFFIDAVITS ARE SIGNED
 BY PERKINS ASSOCIATES
THOSE ON WHICH HE IS AR- RESTED ON CHARGE OF
 GRAND LARCENY.

Case at Once Taken to the Supreme
 Court-CounseI Admits to Magistrate
 That Accused Advanced s4s,7O2.5O to
 Treasurer Bliss of the Republican Ma
 tiOnal Committee--Afterward Refm-
 hursed by Action of New York Iafe
 Trustees.
 New York, March 2S.-On a charge that his connection with the confri. button of $4S702.50 from the funds of the New York Life Insurance company to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of tha republican national committee, in the campaign of 1904, constituted grand lar ceny in the first degree, George w. Perkins, a member of the firm of IL p. Morgan & Co.,, and until recently first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, was arrested to- day on warrant issued by City Magis- trate Moss. When the detective went to serve the warrant upon Mr. Perkins he found that a writ of habeas corpus had already been obtained from Justice Greenbaum, of the supreme court. and the matter was immediately taken olIt of the magistrates hands. MT. Perkins appeared before Justice Greenbaum and at the request of his counsel, the hearing in the case was adjourned until Friday. MT. Perkins was paroled in the custody of his personal attorney, Lewis D. Delafield.
 The warrant for MT. Perkins arrest vas applied for yesterday by District Attorney Jerome. Magistrate Moss would not act, however, until affidavits were filed i'll the case. These were pre- sented to him to-day. They were sign ed by Garvin P. Kingsley, vice presi- dent of the New York Life; Edmund D. Randolph treasurer of the conpanyl. and Thomas A. Buckner, also vice president. MT. Perkins counsel admit ted to Magistrate Greenbaum that MT. Perkins had advanced the sum named to MT. Bliss upon the request of the late A. Mccall, president of the New York Life. He was afterward reim- bursed through the action of the conf- pany's finance committee. It was con- tended that MT. Mccall had executive authority to order the payment and that if any crime was committed it was participated in by every member of tho finance committee present when the matter was acted upon.
 Despite the action of MT. Jerome in applying for a warrant for MT. Perkins and thus taking the matter to <se higher courts of the state, Judge O'Sul- livan in the court of special sessions to- day again addressed the grand jury, which is considering life insurance mat ters and instructed them that it was their right to demand that the district attorney subpoena witnesses to be ex- amined before them in any matter they may have under consideration.
 The affidavits on which Magistrate Moss acted in issuing the warrant for. MT. Perkins arrest were forwarded to the supreme court tonight on a writ of certoirari
 District Attorney Jerome tonight made public correspondence between himself and MT. Perkins which showed that upon the district attorneys re- quest for information and without promise of any immunity whatsoever. MT. Perkins had supplied MT. Jerome with all the facts concerning the 1904 campaign contribution. In concluding his letter on the subject MT. Perkins wrote:
 When made the advances menticn- ed, and when I was reimbursed there- for, it never occurred to me that there could be any question as to the Ifo- priety of such expenditure, which I be- lieve6 to be for the benefit of the corrl- pany. It came to me as a surprise that the legality of such payments should be questioned. W2he so asserting, it is not my intention to dispute or to deny civil liability to account to the con1- pany for these moneys,
 You may make such use of this statement as you see fit. It is my pur- pose frankly to state my connection with the transaction, and advised1y and deliberately waive any right, privilege or immunity in connection with or in consequence of my giving this informal tion.
 q derived no personal advantage of any kind from the transaction, and certainly I had no intent other than to serve the interests of the company"