The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-15
JORDAN DROPS ! DEAD IN SUBW AY Author of Yellow Dog Fund
 Awaiting Trial on Eighteen
 Insurance Probe h. dictments.
HEART DISEASE FATAL
Former Comptroller of Equitable Life Who Could Not Be Found at l'imc of Armstrong ln-
 yestigation.

New York, July H..-Thomas D, Jor- dan, formerly comptroller of the Equit- able Life Assurance society dropped dead of heart disease late this after noon in the Wall street station of the subway His death was attended by tragic circumstances. Scores of per sons saw him fall, among them Dr. F. C. Wells, friend of the Jordan fam fly. Dr. Wells hurried to the side Of lis stricken friend, but he saw lmme- diately that Mir. Jordan was dead MT. Jordan had parted from his son, Frank F Jordan only moment before and 9 messenger overlook the young man on the street and informed him of hls fathers death. The son was over come with grief. Before the body had been removed by the police the news of Mr Jordans death had reached the financial district few blocks away and many men prominent in the fnan- cial world were at the police station when the body arrived. Mir Jordan was well known in Wall street as he was director and officer In many large corporations. It was in the course of the Armstrong committee in surance investigation that his name came prominently before the public. It was brought out then that Comptroller Jordan had secured loans aggregatins $685. ,OOO for himself and James W. Alex ander. former president of the Equit- able from the Mercantile Trust com pany, and that these ionns had been covered up on the books of the com pany. Thic s69j,00O came to be known as the "Yellow Dog fund, desire was expressed by the Armstrong com mittee that Jordan appear before the committee and explain his fnancia management of the Equitable but tho process servers were unable to locate Mir. Jordan. MT Jordan's son who was called before the committee and asked to tell where his father was said he dlt not know and when further questioned said he did not know whether his fath. CT was dead or alive.
 When the Armstrong committee in- vestigation had come to close Jor- dan put in an appearance and 1t was then learned that he had been in Flu rope. As q result of the disclosures made, before the Armstrong committed the grand jury found IS indictments foi forgery and one for perjury agalns Jordan. Only recently Mr Jordan ap reared before Justice Golf in the crim linal bench of the Supreme court t' { plead not guilty to the indictments. Hi ! trial was set for the fall term of tn criminal branch. Since his indlct mcnt, MT Jordan had remained befor the public eye as little as possible While he was active in financial circle fis name gel lom appeared in print.
 As soon as MT Jordans son had bee, summoned the body wac taken to tn police station There t was viewe by Coroners Physician Weston wh said that death was due to heart fall / ure or apoplexy and that an autops, was not necessary He gave permls ! sion for the removal of the body ar Frank Jordan quickly secured the ser vices of an undertaker and had tn body of his father taken to his hom
 in Englewood MT Jordan leaves
 widow. his son Frank and daugh ter Mrs. Edwerd D. OBrien who mar riel the son of Judge Dennis O'Brier recently of the court of appeals.