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Show iHE'S INNOCENT t . ! plies to Criticisms S Public Acts. i He Avert Necessity of 3' Investigating 'the If Investigation? 'tares Delay in Making Public IHc..1fn'k1n -Ponnrf Not DUO tO ,Jj. Making Changes. I ILBANY, N. V.. July 1G. Tho answer Muperlnlendcnt Francis Hendricks of fstate Insurance Department, to tho Wished criticisms oC his official actln iUcction with tho testimony taken by Jfin tho Investigation of tho Equitable i Assurnnco society and his prellm-M-y report thereon. Is made in an cx-Jribd cx-Jribd statement Issued from the Insur-department Insur-department tonight- Incidentally Superintendent publishes a letter ad- tlSScd by him to his deputy, Robert IT. fcter at New York, Instructing him to feer hi cSJy of Urn Equitable testify testi-fy to District Attorney Jerome. r' No Change Was Made. He statement Includes an affidavit by IlJam A- Comstock. Superintendent tfarlcks's conlldentlal stenographei , lifying that he alone did' the tten-Sphlc tten-Sphlc work and transcribing of notes Connection with tho taking of tho tes-lny tes-lny and tho preparation of Superln-fent Superln-fent Hendricks's preliminary report, fthat he personally knows that no Sge or omission was made In the tes-InV tes-InV or the report; that outsido of the Sus officially employed in tho conduct 'he investigation, no person heard, ;nor saw tho report or the testimony S&ort excepting Governor Hlgglns and unsel, Cuthbert Vv. Found, statement says: Itf Denies Charge cf Editing. tatat-ment mado In certain newspapers Jfcy 5rt and the testimony taken was ttf-lnA altered In tho Interests or at the J&fon of certain Individuate o 1Malse No person except thOBo employed tSo conduct of the Invocation read M access to tho report prior to the time , uSt delivered to the printer, except Go lUHL nnd hi T counsel. Cuthbirt W. round. , wa l mado by either, cf thorn m tor modulation of the jreaort jnd no Sa'was made In tho report ae prepared b ifftho report a printed Ifr In- the exact BS which It was Anally dratted by mc counsel. ?2: Didn't Get All Facts. ?Snc interview with the Governor and his (Sh I wn asked by tho Governor whether 1 I boon successful in feecurlnc tho facta l'iSg'to nil matters under jnvcstlcnUon. 1 Jltalto him that I had not., that the lnvwll-pSjWfta lnvwll-pSjWfta tm necessarily. Incomplete, that ?M other matters whloh had not been fully llWto was one which I deemed of utmost alliance, but concemlnK which r had been ITfJUo procure the facts, by reason of not iMk learned of It until tho preliminary ln-UTitlon ln-UTitlon was about completed SBig Loan Didn't Appear. Sen stated to him that I had been In-f'si1 In-f'si1 that the Equitable society wn carry-UHfioan carry-UHfioan In tho Mercantile Trust company of Serf, of which no record appeared on Its tfiSIas a liability. The Governor stated to ;it he believed that a further effort should 45&t to thorouKhly lnvestlcato that sub-JJUn sub-JJUn accordance with that eupECRtlon 1 "Biftltrcclcd my counnel to make r. further JSlEallon and explanation relative to that ind by reason of such action my report clayed until tho conclusion of hla effort. P?f efforts In that particular were nnsuc-SlW. nnsuc-SlW. At that tlmo we wero unable to iSff tho facta relating to tho matter and jrocnlly my report rcmalntd unchanged. Keport "Was Preliminary. .tfjfa reference to the criticism that my re-yTUocs re-yTUocs not fully cover all of tho facts Slit out In the testimony, I never lntend-tjat lntend-tjat u should spoclnclally refer to cvery-mftjthat cvery-mftjthat wua doVeloped by Hie testimony Mio contrary, I stated at tho outset that Olnot, that the report was preliminary In Scter and covered only 6Uch matters us I W?sd of lmmcdlato importnnco to the pollcy-(jTOre. pollcy-(jTOre. If I had undertaken to cover all rfjikB referred to In tho lebtlinony It would LMdclayed lesulpg tho report nt least sixty aJitjand the report would comprise a volumo rtftltast COO or 300 paces. Se,lt Two Copies-.ifflicndrlcks Copies-.ifflicndrlcks goes on to stay that on v6 he sent a copy of his report to ftfrney-Geuoi'al Julius M. Mayer, at tftWiy, and one to Robert II. Hunter, his tfafty. in Now York city, transcripts of potters to these officials appearing rtW,'statcment- TllQ other copy, he de- .,1. Slnca mmnlpllnn lina ivmnln,,,! f ''iJpes In the department vault. i113..101111" t0 JIr Hunter, Superln-UJit Superln-UJit Hendricks says: blHuld the DlKtrlct Attorney desire ac-slwp ac-slwp thl-i evidence you are at libertv it " U 10 lllln 0l' allow hlm 10 ex" restatement continues: jKTo Desire to Keep It Dark. ;jWjc at no tlm heal any dculro to keep -S-dcnrvi rremi tho public. Jt seemed to in vTow of .tliw fact that the Attornoy- !aml tho District Attornny of New lunty might dutcnnlno to uso the evl-n evl-n tho basis ot prosecutions, it vn due 9 officials, and public policy required, cy should bu rirat apprised ot Us con-When con-When that was done, unless In their V,10 uVmnnfl8 of Jusllco re.nulred that Jcatlon Ir delayed, theio wan no rtn-y rtn-y It Khould not bo nmde public. It li n"i r.?U'inLlon t0 navo lnt toallmony kboaSf iKft11 ,0 aU u,oso 10 whom Regrets the Controversy. i fW? wntroveray has arisen be-I be-I la ;1!cT,P s rlc,1 Attorney of Now York I itk om JP,11!1 in charge of Urn 1 K cony nfeb.,aUvo t0 tno delivery 1 ft to Mr K. 'i5? rop91'1- nnd "o has 1 lAlestli.e h?alcr ? ,,.cttcr ,lllted Juy 1 I teorn-v deliver to tho DIs- I IErncy a cop' of tho evidence. I lffrr&CC t0 tho '"nulry as to why I wys:WB8 "ot cxa"lI,,cd' Ir- 1 HI y Harrimnn Escaped. 1 nol..a """niber-of either execudv I sf th Jl? ih? trnn?aclloiw disclosed B I'.J Binnn , "nu'c funilNhed In which 3 I t nSrh-"?"10 aP3 as "Ither s"ll |
