The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-02
Admitted to Bail by
 Court.
E ISSUES LONG STATEMENT
Was Not Guilty of Even Technicaf'
 Violation.
Manager of International PelicyhcIa- CTS Committee Charged wifh Forxer, His Fellow Work
 CTS Claim Innocence.

scrugham. manager of the Intorna-s tional policyholders committees and Charles F. Darlington and Charles Stirrup. assistant managers of ths same organization. arrested late last night on charges of forgery in con-s nection with the recent electioneot dlr-l ectors of the New York Life Insurances Company. were arraigned before . p3-l lice magistrate, today. their cases were continued until next Monday. Scruy- ham and Stirrup were released on xzs- 500 bail and Darlington on S3.ooo bail. Before he was arraigned in conl Fl Scrugham issued a statement n whlr he declared that acts of an entirely Ae-. gal nature have been misconntrusd so as to make appear that an attempS. was made to circumvent the laws goS ' erning the insurance election ana 10 procure tho counting by fraud, or Dsi-' lots not propertly executed
 "As A matter of fact" he said, tne1*s charges do not have to do with the a4 legged tampering with ballots at aAlsI but refer to the filling in of names and addresses on envelopes In wnic. ballots were sent to the inspectors A the New York Life Company's omcS There never has been an attempt ess concealment in the matter" He oe- clared that the ballots in question. L: 100 In number were placed in sink* hox and the box was labelled baAio<A without envelopes"
 Explained to Inspectors.
 He stated to the inspectors that thes1 arvaiones were mixed in with other ballots was explained by the fact tn1S the f,rst officiaI act of their board wa4 to inaiscriminately pin the address foN the nurpose of ascertaining how many ballots were cast by the committae. q The net result of this action says lns statament. was that all the baiiotA wers indiscriminAteiy Jumbaed tQ~I gether. ssS o.aociates inthe New York Life Boar4 of Inspectors remember now mems inc aff,davits placed in the box m aues- lion is quite iunmaterial The tact tn'A-a they were made and deposited is enr tirely susceptible of proof. ana tnAs in itself would be a sumcfen. answsA ,o any charge of conspiracy to ctr~ eumvent tha election laws even if it dtd moi appear that the inspectors wera obliged to tape cognisanoe of the mat@ ter in the argument by counsei TOT ohFl committed
 MT. scrugham later denied that ha Darlington or Stirrup had given order4 to three women clerks to attempt " initiate the handwriting of poltcynoiu~ CTS in addressing the envelopes lol sn~ 100 ballots. he said:
 "Mrs. Frances Goldsmith who Ac- cording to the statement in the anida- vit of MT. Howe, assistant districs attorney. gave him the informations was discharged by me for incompe- tencv three weeks before the polia closed. The two others were tha day after the polls closed Tn eompany with seven others, they had no dtnt- cultv in getting positions with the New York Life the statement aacrio- ed to them that they were ordered so change the names of policyholders ana initiate handwriting of poiicyhoiaers is absurd. They never got ony sucn orders from Darlington or Strrups.
 Offer of Assistance.
 Amonr several telegrams which came to Scrugham from ths west ana the South today offering assistancss was one from Wade Eiiis, attorney general of Ohio. Mir. scrughsm re for his offer. but said that he does not renuire his services. He said thee he would leave Albany later today to look after insurance legislation now nendin9. He was in Albany for thas purpose at the time of his arrest
 Thirty girls, who were eiuptoS1u " inc International PolicyholderS Com- mIttee. were served with subpoenas to- day. directing them to appear at the District Attorneys Ohsce. These girls will be examined by the District Att tornev with reference to a report which has reached him to the effect that whenever an administration ticket went to the offices of the company It was torn up and never forwarded 10 tns offices of the companies.
 Samuel untermyer counsel Tor the International Policyholders' Commit- tee. issued a statement In which he said that he was unable to see that MT. Scrugham or his clerks have been ruiltv even of a technical violation of inc law and that he had a perfect right to do as he did Mir. Untermyer de- clared that Scrugham had earned the confidence and gratitude of the policx- holders. and added:
 '"The companies will have to try once more if they expect by such transpar- ent devices to cover their own tracks and obstruct the pending Legislation for a reform in the insurance election law that will do away with the frauds and forgeries of the agents and make possible an honest election. Every man who tries to run up against the entrenched power of these mon must expect almost anything I am sure that when the public prosecutor un- derstands the situation, full justice will be done Mir, Scrugham.|
 
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