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Show MUTUAL LIFE BOOKS STRANGELY M1SSIHG Records of Supply Departmenl Under Fields Stolen or Destroyed. NEW YiiRK. Dec 2n Discovery was made yesterday, according to tho Herald, that books of record which should show in detail the transactions of the Mutual Life Insurance company's com-pany's supply department, while It was under the management of Andrew C. Fields, have been destroyed or stolen from the safe in which thd department records are kept For more than three weeks this has been known to the company's com-pany's temporary president, Frederic Cromwell, and he has searched the Mutual Mu-tual Life building from top to bottom without finding the least trace of the missing books. Demand by Committee. It was a demand for the production of thpse books before the Mutual Investigating Inves-tigating committee, of which W H. Truesdale Is chairman, that brought to light the fact of their disappearance. When the members Of the investigating investigat-ing committee learned of the disappearance disappear-ance of the records, they began a search on their own account, going so fa i as to employ detectives for that putpos. These men have reported thai they have been unable to rind any clue which will help them in locating the missing books Throe Men Have Knowledge. There are three men employed in. the Mutual's supply department who were believed by the members of the investigating investi-gating committee to lvave knowledge of the whereabouts of the records. Accordingly they summoned W. H. Carpenter, who. according to his testimony testi-mony oefore the Armstrong committee, was in charge of Mr Fields' "house of mirth." In Albany. Mr. Carpenter was examined on Monday, but after he left the committee room the members were DO Wiser than before. C. A Norris, who was Fields assistant in the supply department, was next questioned, but he failed to throw any light on the subject sub-ject of the books. The third man who, they believed, could tell them something about tho missing records is Julius Heye. bookkeeper book-keeper of the department The investigators, investi-gators, it was said yesterday, had not yet been able to secure the presence of Mr. Heye before them. |