Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-03-29
PERKINS IS CHARGED
WITH GRAND LARCENY
District Attorney Finally Gels One
Of The Alleged Insurance
GraflGrs lnlO Court.
WRIT Of lABfAs CORPUS our
finW the Legality Of Contributing 20
Campaign Funds by the pis corpo-
ra'io"s wn' &c Settled in the su-
preme cour, Of the State Of New
York Facts Are Known.
tRy Assn..l:lie..l prrss.l.

NEW YORK. March IS On the
ciarG" that his connection with Il con.
lrib,ltiom Of $i:..T,;!, from The r,m.ls
Of the New YGik .if. Insurance Com
nany. 10 Cornelius ~ Bliss. treasurer
of HE Republican national committees
IN the campaign OF 1901 constituted
grand larceny In the first degree.
George w. Perkins. member of lie
firm uf j. u. Morgan 4 Co and until
recently first vice.prcsIent OF The
Sew York life Insurance Company.
was arrested today on warrant is.
s,led by CITY Magistrate Moss
When "A detective went to serve the
warrant upon Mr. Perkins lie found
hat Il writ OF hahaeS corpus already
had been obtained from Justice
Grcenbnunl OF he Stnle Supreme
Court ana Tho matter was Immediate.
~ taken nul ui HE mngisl rat 5
hands.
Perkins Kindly Appears.
Mr.. Perkins appeared before Jus.
lice Grccmbamn ana. at The request nf
his counsel. the hearing in the case
was adjourned until Friday. Mir.
Perkins was parolcd in The custody ol
his attorney. Lewis A. Dclafield.
The warrant for Mr. Perkins ar.
rest was applied for Yesterday !; ,,y.
District Attorney leone. Magistrate
Moss would not act. however. until
.hiiidavtS were filed in the case.
These We're presented to him today
They We're signed by Darwin p.
kingsley. viccprcsident of The New
York Life. Edmund ID. Randolph.
treasurer of The company. ana by
Thomas \. l'nckner, also II vice
president
Perkins Admits the Charge.
MIR. Perkins counsel admitted to
Justice Grcenbam that MIR. Perkins
had advanced The sum named TO Mr..
Bliss upon the request of The late
John y Mccall. president of the New
York Life. He was aftcrward rein.
hlirscd through the action of The com
rany's finance committee.
IL was cnntcndcd that Mr. Mccall
had executive authority To order the
payment and that if any crime we're
committed il was participated IN hy
every member Of The finance commit
tee present when the matter was act
ed nnnn.
Justice o'Suiivan in Earnest.
Despite The action OF Mr. Jerome
in applying for il warrant for MIR.
Perkins and thus taking the matter
10 The higher courts OF The State.
Judge OSnllvan. in ihe Court of Spc.
cinl Sessions today again addressed,
the grand jury which is considering
life insurance matters anu instruct, ID
The members that il was their duty
10 continue the invest igation To the
end. lie told he grand jurors il was
lh"lr right To demand that The district
attorney subpoena witnesses 10 he eX-
;nincd before them in any matter
'hry may have under consideration.
Mere Insurance Men Resign.
ltobcr n Grannish and Walter II
Gillette. Il vice presidents and trust
eos ana lIldridgc r. Gerry. as trustee
OF the Mutual Life Insurance Com
Iiany. today rendered their resignation
nj Il meeting of the board of trustees
they were accepted.
Tic affidavits upon which Magistrate
Moss acted in issuing the warrant for
Mr.. Perkins arrest were forwarded
10 the Supreme Court tonight on a
writ of certiorari.
The statement sworn to by Vice
President Kingsley gives some details
cl he meeting of the New York Life's
finance committee in December, 1904.
when President Mccall appeared and
stated that Mr.. Perkins had advanced
ccflain large sums of money to Cor
nelins N. Bliss. treasurer of the Re.
publican national committee, pursu-
ant 10 McCall's agreement to contri.
bltc $50'On0 for use IN Inc campaign
of 1904
Jerome Has the Facts.
District Attorney Jerome today mndo
public correspondence between him
self and Mr.. Perkins. which showed
that upon the district. attorneys re-
anest for information and without
promise OF any immunity Whatsoever,
Mr.. Perkins had supplied Mr.. Jerome
with all the facts connected with the
The 1904 campaign contribution. In
concluding his letter on the subject.
Mr.. Perkins wrote:
When made the advances men
tened and when I was reimbursed 1t
never occurred to me that there could
be any question as to the proprlety OF
such eXpcnitnrcS which hellauaa IN