Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-01
SENSATIONAL RESULTS
AND FOUR ARRESTS
FOLLOW THE INQUIRY
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 30.-Sensational
results have quickly followed the in
quiry by the district attorneys office
into the recent election of directors OF
the New York Life Insurance company
George Scrugham, manager of the in
ternational policyholders' committee,
which inspired the present investiga-
ton making grave charges against
those who conducted the election, was
himself arrested at Albany tonight and
put aboard train for New York.
Scrugham is charged with conspir-
acy and he was the third man identi-
fled with the international policyhold-
ers' committee to be taken into GUS
tody since noon today. The others are
Charles Stirrup and Charles F.. Car
rington.
The two were not members of the
committee, but were employed as
watchers for the committee at the elec-
ton. Stirrup was a watcher at the
directors election of the Mutual Life,
while Darlington acted in similar
capacity at the New York Life cleo
tion.
They are specifically charged with
unlawfully conspiring together for the
perversion and obstruction of the due
administration of the laws of the
state of New York with relation to the
election of the directors of the New
York Life Insurance company.
Stirrup, 1t was alleged, was employed
in the office of the policy holders COM
mittee previous to December IS, and
the offense with which he was charged
was committed prior to that date.
Earlier today Jacob Frank, a New
York Life company agent, was ar
rested, charged with forgery in the
third degree. Frank had been sum-
moned to explain the signatures of
several policy holders to alleged
forged ballots cast at the recent cleo
tion Of directors of the New York
Life.
The policy holders committee, head
ed by Schrugham as manager and Sam
uel Untermyer as counsel, and with
a membership Of many distinguished
persons in this country and Europe,
fought the administration tickets in
the recent elections of directors of
the New York and Mutual Life Insur-
ance companies.
Scrugham was arrested while in AL
bany in connection with insurance
legislation. He was expected here to-
night and was awaited by representa-
tives of the district attorneys office,
who met the train when it reached the
Grand Central station at 1910 o'clock.
When he did not arrive, 1t Is stated,
his arrest was ordered in Albany.
Samuel Untermyer counsel for the
policy holders committee, gave out the
following statement tonight:
MY attention was only called to this
complaint late tonight. During a con-
siderable part of the campaign 1 was
in Europe. 1 know nothing about the
subject of the complaint except what I
have just heard, but 1t looks on its face
very much like a cry of stop thief on
the part of the comma MES
They know that the forgeries on the
part of the companies ran into the
thousands and that they would like TO
obscure the issue. I have no doubt Mr..
Scrugham will be able fully to meet
this latest move on the part of the COM
panies to cover their tracks,"
Since the elections in both the New
York and Mutual companies on De-
cember 1S, the district attorneys Of
flee has been looking into the counter
charges of crooked work by the ad-
party and the policy
holders committee. Representatives
of both sides have been heard and
many ballots have been examined.
Nothing was done, however, until after
the official count was announced,
showing the administration tickets to
be the victors by large majorities in
both companies.
Darlington, Stirrup and Schrugham
were in the district attorneys office
yesterday and were examined sep
arately.
Today four women clerks employed
by the policyholders committee in
preparing ballots were examined in
the district attorneys office. Since
that the complaint against the three
policyholders' committee employees was
drawn up, Stirrup and Darlington
mo- haH
up.
The prisoners will be given a hear
ing tomorrow morning.