The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-29
C. w. PERKINS BEFORE COURT Grand Larceny Alleged
 in Warr1t. LIFE NsUR. s-E DONATION Advanced ,,7O2.so to the Repub- $ an Committee. Says He Did so at the Direction of President Mccall and Thought 1t For the Benefit of the Conn
 pany.

New York, March 2s.--on charge that his connection with the, contribu- ton of S4S,702.50 from the funds of the New York Life Insurance Company to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Republican National Campaign Com mittee, in the campaign of 1904, consti- tuted grand larceny in the first de- gree. George w. Perkins, a member of the firm of J, P. Morgan and Company. and until recently first vice-president of the New York Life Insurance Com pany, was arrested today on warrant issued by, City Magistrate Moss.
 When a detective went to serve the warrant upon Perkins, he found that a writ of habeas corpus had already been obtained from Justice Greenbaum of the State Supreme Court and the matter was immediately taken out of the Magistrates hands.
 Perkins appeared before Justice Greenbaum and at the request of his counsel the hearing in the case was adjourned until Friday. Mir Perkins was paroled in the custody of his per- sonal attorney, Lewis A. Delaheld
 The warrant for Mir. Perkins's ar rest was applied for yesterday by Dis trict Attorney Jerome. Magistrate Moss would not act, however, until afhdavits were filed in the case. These were presented to him today. They were blkn6Q Dy OAEWlH AlHSSACys NitC- president of the New York Life; Ed" mund D. Randolph, treasurer of the company and by Thomas X. Buckner, also vice-president
 Mir. Perkins's counsel admitted to Justice Greenbaum that MT. Perkins had advanced the sum named to MT. Bliss upon the request of the late John A. Mccall, president of the New York Life.
 He was afterward reimbursed through the action of the company's finance committee.
 one Guilty, All Guilty.
 It was contended that MT. Mccall had executive authority to order the payment and that if any crime was committed, 1t was participated in by every member of the finance commit tee present when the matter was acted upon.
 Despite the action of MT. Jerome in applying for a warrant for MT. Per kins and thus taking the matter to the higher courts of the State, Justice ,O'Sullivan, in the court of special ses- ,sions, today again addressed the grand jurors who are considering life insur- ance matters, and instructed them that 1t was their duty to continue the in- vestigation to the end. He told the grand jurors it was their right to de- mand that the district attorney sub pOena witnesses 10 De eXdEliHeu DeIOTS them in any matter they may have un- der consideration.
 Robert A. Grannis and W. R. Gil- Iette, as vice presidents and trustees, and Eldridge T. Gerry, as trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, today rendered their resignations at meeting of the board of trustees of that company. They were accepted. 4 report of the Truesdale investigat- ing committee was received and or- dred printed, but no other action was taken upon 1t.
 District Attorney Jerome tonight made public correspondence between himself and MT. Perkins, which show ed that upon the district attorneys re- quest for information and without promise of any immunity whatsoever, Mr. Perkins had supplied MT Jerome with all the facts connected with the 1904 campaign contributions. In con cluding his letter on the subject, MT. Perkins wrote;
 When made the advances mem tioned and when I was reimbursed therefor, it never occurred to me that there could be any question as to the propriety of such expenditures which believed to be for the benefit of the company"