Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-27
SOCIETY WOMAN IN TOLLS FOR
 ALLEGED THEFT
Mrs. Story, Former Head of
 D. A. R. Charged With
 Appropriating War Relief Fund; Sons Also Charged
CBy Review Leased Wire)

NEW YORK, June 26.-Mrs. Wm. Cumming Story, former president gen eral of the Daughters of the American Revolution. was arrested here late to- day on indictments charging her with grand larceny, petty larceny and con spiracy in connection with the affairs of the National Emergency Relief so- ciety, of which she is president
 Mrs. Story was paroled in the GUS tody of her counsel until tomorrow af- ternoon when she will be ararigned and bail will be fixed.
 Indicted with Mrs. Story were her sons, Allen, an army lieutenant sta ticned at Aberdeen, Md. and Sterling, who is in the government service at Washington They are charged with having participated with their mother in a profiteering scheme whereby money contributed for comfort ktis fo: United States soldiers was diverted to the pocekts of a solicitor Indict- ments charging that Mrs. Story ar ranged with Wm Garland Brown, the solicitor, for him to receive half the funds collected by the society, and that he gave Sterling Story one-fifth
 
 sion. it is alleged compensated Sterl- ing for his part in negotiating Browns arrangement with his mother.
 The assistant district attorney who has charge of the inquiry, declared there was no way of checking up the contributions made and the use to which they were ultimately put Con- sequently, he said, the aggregate amount believed to have been misused could not be verified. Mrs. Story, the authorities declare, never was actual ly elected president of the relief soci- ety but took that office. As a matter of fact, they say, the manner in which the society itself was incorporated was grossly irregular"
 Several prominent members have withdrawn and insisted that their names be no longer on it's stationery, it is said. Among them are Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and Mrs. Simon Baruch, wife of a wealthy New York physician.
 Mrs. Story subjected herself to prosecution, it was declared, because she falsely represented that her soci- ety paid no commission to solicitors and thus obtained a small part of the proceeds from the Hero Land Bazaar in which many accredited war relief organizations participated.
 Mrs. A. T. Baldwin, wife of a New York lamp manufacturer, who it is declared was deposed as treasurer of the society by a faction favorable to Mrs. Story was the chief witness dur ing the grand jury sitting.
 Through her counsel tonight Mrs Story termed the charges made against her and her sons the result of "a disgruntlement on the part of the treasurer of the society (AIrs Baldwin, who was removed from of fee by vote of the organiza ton" '"
 The lawyer said that Mrs. Story had no knowledeg of the society's financia. transactions other than that gained during the official investigation. lie added that she believed implicitly that the part played by her sons in the re- lief work was fin all respects proper and regular"
 Besides serving three years as head of the Daughters of the American Rev olution, Mrs. Story formerly was pres ident of the New York State Feder- ation of Women's clubs, chairman of the Women's division of the American deefnse society and active worker in the Colonial Danes and other organi- cations.