Show WANT ANT TESTIMONY OF BIG OFFICIALS OFFICIALS' Warrants Issued For Insurance nce Men Connected With Campaign Campaign Campaign Cam Cam- Contributions CORTELYOU MAY TESTIFY i I I of lr tIme the lII Iii lIon Which l Mini lilli n I Id Liil d Up Uj In to the flit S Sit Situation lion Washington n D. D C. C March 27 The Thc The report of or the he Issuance of 0 a warrant fOlI for fOl I his arrest In connection with the tho NewYork New Nw NewYork York In Insurance scandals reached Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- mn master lel General I Cortelyou while attending a meeting of uC the Cabinet to today n He lie declined to tol l discuss I cu the th matter further I than hall to pay that If Ir the report is h true truo h he hs will lIl gi gladly go ro i To rc New ew York and fur fur- tit nIsh uch Information o. o as Is In his possession pos pos- session and to advise lif his interviewer Il I Ite I to te wait Co for I the tIme facts Dispatches from New Nei e York say n. n that warrant were cle to today a obtained f for r the arrest Ct of oC three prominent life in insurance mr- mr alice ance by DI District Attorney Jerome from from- rein Magistrate Moss 1058 of or tho the Tombs court It 11 was tas said Mid at t the time tinie the warrants were Is issued that th the men nien named In iii them were In the criminal courts building anti and that their theil attorneys nes ne's at tho the same am time were In thu tho su supreme su- su preme court CO arranging for Cor writs rH of oC habeas corpus in connection onn with the Hit proceed proceeding i rig S Kor Committee It tt u was t. a reported in the crIminal courts building that the thc warrants a asked for forIe were Ie tot 01 the arrest anest of ot Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- mn master tel G General George B. B Cortelyou chairman of the th Republican fi National Nation Nation- al committee COIn Cornelius lIu N. N Bliss treasurer treas treas- of that committee and George Gcorge W W.- W. Perkins form formerly ll lc vice viC of or the thc New York Life Lire Insurance company After Aftel he had hall obtained the warrants warrant DI District Attorney Jerome declined to toJ J say for whom they had been j issued Ills action In asking aRking fur for the Ule Uie warrants warrant Is belle believed to lJ be an outgrowth of the dl cu lon bet between wen Judge O'Sullivan OSul h an of the court COUlt of or general sessions session and himself last week weel whether officers officer of ur r the Insurance companies would b he be 1110 prosecuted for Cor making contributions t to political tl l c. parties TH A few fo weeks eel i ago Jerome presented presente to the grand jury certain evidence I bearing upon Ulon such contributions which was Vats brought out In iii the tho ir irlo tr fj- fj cjU allo jU 11 n l os Jt t luns t us lo to w Ut UI under tier certain c ecU cos the Insurance officials had hod com corn l larceny In making the political contributions cc n I ri b U t to us t Mu-t be lu Intent Several da days s later MY Mi Jerome Informed in informed informed In- In formed the Jury that the were not hot guilty of larceny unless intent ti to shown sho and anti expressed th opinion that t It wa was not shown In these casos Last La-Ct week however ho Jull Judge c O'Sullivan notified the jury that It was vas for Cor the jury to say MY whether or not in intent In Intent tent to defraud were shown b by the Insurance in insurance In- In men and that thaL if the jury Jur I found round out that thai It was shown the crime of larceny would ha have been committed When hOn Ju Judge e O'Sullivan so MO charged the jury jm Mr Mi r. r Jerome declared th the jud Judge e had misconstrued ll the case a e and that II it IC his bis ruling was eOll correct t warrants should h be Issued for Cortelyou miss Bliss and Per Pet kins Mr Mi It Jerome rome offered to ask Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the warrants If ir Judge O'Sullivan nn would grant them and ana hear the cases Judge O'Sullivan declined to go about the case cas In that wa way nn anti and 1 in instructed In- In the Jury jur later to 10 secure the evidence from flom the District attorneys attorney's and Investigate Cearle fearlessly I- I Ithe the entire entire en en- tire Ure- matter of or political contributions b by Insurance Foreman Make Itle Application olI The foreman of the tho Jury yesterday a made natle application 1 to Mr 11 Jerome's orfice office of or- fice flee for the evidence but hut the assistant district attorney declined to give ghe It tL to him Mr Ir Jerome was Va not then at his office N Assistant District Attorney Kresel Krese el accompanied by Vice President ent Da Darwin P PS Kingsley sley of or the Uw New York orl Life LICA appeared ap appeared ap- ap d before beCore Magistrate trot Moss to today ay and amid Mr l Kin Kingsley le made a deposition Several subpoenas In blank were then I issued by the magistrate for fol or a John Doe DoC proc proceeding None one of the court officials otH- otH daIs concerned in the proceedings would sa say what the proc proceedings were Up to a n lute late hour this aft noon no statement as to thi th warrants could be bO obtained At that time tune is was reported a decision had hUll been re reached ched to make a test of the case casc against George Georg W. W Perkins The Th pro was said to be bp that Perkins Per Per- kins leins will appeal appear in court tomorrow when a warrant will be served on hint him and the legal points Involved will be passed on b by the court According to this report If It the case casa o against Perkins holds others con con- with the thC Insurance contributions to campaign funds will viii be prose prose- Cu I ed |