The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-20

to select the carr
Al accompanied them, yes.
Q.--The car was selected at the deal
ers, all three Of you being PRESENT.
Ayes.
Q.-1ou state in your report that
ut was reported by this official to the
chairman of the commission at thu
time" Was this report made before or
after you went TO the Dealers and.
selected the oar and It was paid for7
Att was paid before the car was
delivered. / think that ! had already
talked with the chairman the day Il
was selected.
o.-It was after the car was actually
bought. then. and that Is the reason
you used the word 'reportedf'
Ayes.
!Q.-Was the owners license for this
car Issued In your name or in your
wifes manner
A.-It was issued in my name.
Q.-How did that happen?
A.--No special order was given about
the license and the. license was pro-
cured by the dealer, I suppose, in the
usual manner. and made out to me.
@. Was the application for 1t made by
you or BY somebody else? You say 1t
was made by the dealer. Was It?
A. Those matters are usually attended
to by the dealer as a matter OF form.
Q. Do you know that In point of fact
instead you applied for the license your
self and made affidavit In so applying
that the car belonged to you?
A. recall signing the papers at the
dealers relating to the license. Prob
ably those papers are among them.
@. II you signed such an application
stating that the car was your own prop
erty and verified 1t you made a mistake
in the statement regarding it7
A. certainly did. because that car
was presented not to me but to Mrs.
Baldwin, and has always been regarded
as her car. No attention whatever was
given to that matter at the time the
car was purchased and delivered.
Q. might ask you this question in
regard TO 1t: You will find in your state
ment with respect to the matter that
Mr.. Wynkoop had never had any special
favor. In your testimony in view of
the testimony adduced here this morn
ing, do you not think that statement
also ought to be modifed7
stands by Denial.
A. No, not so far as the manager Of
the State fund In concerned.
Q. You thing the man, then. that had
the privilege OF taking the files out OF
the Office. In relation to policy holders
who were not feeling quite satisfied
with the policies and the condition In
the State Insurance Fund. and keeping
! them for number of days and carry
! ing them across the State. had no spe-
cial favor shown him7
A. Mr.. Wynkoop did not have the
privilege Of taking folders from the
| office of the State fund.
Q. He evidently did do Il?
A. This appears to have been done In
one case by the chief underwriting clerk
then acting as assistant manager and
contrary to the Office rules.
Q. And you think. then, that Mr.. Wynn
koop could not walk right into the
Office like any employee and help HIM
| self to files when he wanted them and
that he often did SO; was that your i'm
preston?
A. Distinctly he coAd not do that.
O. How long had Mr.. Wynkoop known
| Mrs. Baldwin,?
A. That question could not answer.
] think that that would date from 1915
/ possibly.
Q. Was not the real, intimate friend
ship with yourself instead of Mrs Bald
win?
A. The original friendship was GER
tainly with myself.
o. Does Mrs. Baldwin keep a chauf-
| feur?
A. No.
Q. Does she drive herself?
A. No.
o. The only use of the car, then, is
| when you drive II. is 1t not?
A. Or one of the boys .
Q. One OF your sons7
A. Yes.
"a.
koop wanted to express in this manner
his appreciation of the favors you had
| done him7
A. No, did not it never entered my
head.
Q. Or that the State fund had done
him?
A. No. sir; no thought of any bust
ness consideration on that side or obli-
cation on my side was involved in that
transaction.
Got No Gift of Tires.
Q. Do you remember any one else
making you present of automobile
tires at any time for this same car that
was given to Mrs. Baldwin?
A. No; l had no present OF automo-
bile tires.
Q. No tires reached you through an
'N"S' o1iASioA VI Iic otdle tunQ as n
present?
A. No. I bought some tires from DR..
Williams. who was the old medical ad-
wiser, former medical adviser.
Q. You had bought and paid for some
tires from DIR. Williams?
a. Yes, some tires he had some tires,
think last year. about year ago,
which he brought 10 the garage-we oc-
eupied the same garage and shared the
Q. Did you ask DR.. williams from
whom they came?
A. No don't know where the tires
came from.
Q. He is not now living. is he?
A. No.
.. He never told you that those came
from Mr.. Scawartz. the president of the
window cleaners, did he?
A. heard that suggestion for the first
time to-day.
Q. Answer me. please. He never told
you?
A. No; certainly not.
Pressed by Mr. Dawson, Manager
Baldwin admitted that he had signed an
affidavit TO the effect that the automobile
presented by WynNoop was his own, but
said that this was done when the car
was purchased and in the usual course Of
procedure adopted by the sellers.
Mr.. Baldw,7's examination will be con-
tinued when the investigation is resumed
Wednesday morning.
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