Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-07
WANDERER RETURNS
Andrew Hamilton Comes Un-
 heralded From Europe.
HERE TO MEET ALL CRAFT CHARGES
Interviewed, Insurancc Lawyer Said, q Had Heard Something of Grim
 inal Proceedings and Have
 Returned In COnse0uence.D

! Interviewed, Insurancc Lawyer Said, { 'T Had Heard Something of Grim ] inal Proceedings and Have l Returned In Consequences" NEW YORK, March 7.-Unheralded and unannounced Andrew Hamilton, the long absent legislative agent of the New York Life Insurance com pany, slipped into New York on the i steamship Deutschland and hastened away to Albany before the news of his arrival had got beyond the officers 1 of the company, who alone were in the secret. M
 With no concealment save the sign ing on the ships register as H. A. Mil ton. which differently punctuated and capitalized is Hamilton" the man 1 who knows most about the famous yellow dog" funds which have never been satisfactorily explained and whose testimony wss greatly desired by the Armstrong Investigating com | mittee ElideI into New York like a shadow sAG as quickly passed out again. i To friend at the pier the man who got more than $1,250,00O from the New York Life "by order of the president said: .s[.
 "I am here prepared to meet any charges that may be made against me.
 My hands are clean, and have no fear of the result. If anybody sees fit I to get after me with gun he will find out that am armed with cannon"
 Asked for a statement, the judge finally exclaimed:
 l "All right. You shall have it. have something to say, but not much. To such as it is you are welcome. know practically nothing as to the nature of the Fowler report. It will be time enough for me to talk about it when have become familiar with it.
 What suppose you want to know | Is why I have returned. Well, heard something about criminal proceedings, and here I am. That's all. Certainly, it's all have to say just now.
 "You can interpret what it means, and so can the public. It signifies that though my health is far from re-estab. lished I am ready to accept any chal- lenge implied by such proceedings. AS i to my health, let me add that there is no necessity for any resort to fiction. I am fortunate to be alive after all that has happened, but am not so for tunate otherwise"
 "For instance?" he was asked.
 q am especially unfortunate in the death of MT. Mccall, and I might say almost as much concerning the more recent removal of Lyman Short, chief counsel of the Mutual, to say nothing of the incapacitating of MT. Alexander. | To some who have gone could have looked with no misgivings as to what they would say or do. As to what others have said and done during my absence-and I might allude to those who live in glass houses-I will say nothing"
 Go On." ".'-' .7f '.', H Not a word"
 "Well, all that you want to say is that you have come back to face any music that may be played"
 "Yes, discordant or otherwise. You can begin there and end there."
 Judge" Hamilton, however, said he gave vouchers for all expenditures and that to any and all of these vouchers Mir. Mccall would have given a certii- cate of undisputable character. In other words. death had not only taken a lifelong friend, but complicated the | case of the survivor.