The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-19
WORRIED BY INQUIRY.
MeCaIPa Death Due Perhaps by Ltfe q. Insurance investigation.

Insurance kMNGHthNAhAOus
 New York. Feb. 1s.-Mr. MeCalI physical breakdown occurred anout tne ciose of the investig gation of life insur- ance affairs in this city by the legls- Iative committee in December last. The report of the committe is expected tc he submitted to the Legislature at Albany early this week.
 Mr McCalTs. examination before the committee was severe one and the ordeaI he underwent rehearsing in de- tsiI the affairs of the company and in divtlging transactions about which the general public was ignorant worried him greatly, 1t was said
 MT. Mccall was in bed at his nome m this city when he affixed his signature 4o his letter of resignation from the I9rssidannv of the New York Life.
 About three weeks ago his condition hscame such that his physicians and fan1ily deemed 1t advisable to remove him to Lakewood During all this time MT. Mccall worried constantly about his business affairs. He was compelied first tn mortgage and then to sell ms handsome country place at Long Eranch: N. J., in it Is stated, to renav to the New York Life Insurance C,ompany S2s5,000 on the Andrew TIamtlton account, MT. Hamilton. the IarisIative agent of the capital having made no accounting tor this sum.
 Mir. Mccall had promised when the Hamilton disclosures first were maoe to repay the amount named If by certain date a satisfactory statement Uas not forthcoming from Hamilton, who is now sojourning in Paris. Ihe directors of the New York Life at the expiration of the time set called upon MT. Mccall for the payment of the vooney. He acceded to the demands.
 fVa caah and giving his notes for s15O.000, the latter being secured by mortgage on his country nIace. which later he sold, subject to the mortgage. Mir. Mccall realized in sII something over s300,. 3 for his pre- perty which was said to have cost him just double that amount.
 Three weeks ago MT. Mccall suffered inc first sinking spell of his illness and Syas very low for several days Then ba improved slightly. One week ago todav. however, he suffered a second sinking spell and grew much worse Tis condition became so low that his i;es was despaired of. A priest of the ponan Catholic church of which Mir WcTsaII was an adherent, was summon ed and the last sacraments of the church were administered to the stricken man.
 when all hope had been lost MT. Nrcf.all suddenly rallied. It was an ef-
 
 ana not a physical improvement
 The attending physician foresaw the annroaching ordeal and so warned bis family. who remained with the sick man from that time to the period of dissolution.
 MT Mccalrs mental effort to shake off his ailments as the result of the report of the Fowler Investigating committee, composed of directors oi inc New York Life who made public their findings ten days ago. They censured MT Mccall severely Tor cer' tain acts of his in connection witt the legislative bureau established bS him with Andrew Hamilton at it' head. - ..,
 An effort was made to keep the con tents of the report from the sick mar hut learning the statement had beer filed he worried so much over the mat fer that it was decided early last weet to permit him to sec it. The recom mendations in the report demanding of him a fuller accounting of the leg iElative work than he had made, ar' said to have been a crushing blow t' fine oonpany's former President H declared to his family and to the inti raate friends who saw him that he wal