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Show HEINZE APPEARS SIILUIK8SII10L Indicated by Election of New Directorate of United Copper Company. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF CONCERN SET FREE San ford Robinson's Turn Next Unless Missing Books Arc . Found. NEW YORK, dune 2.- Affairs of V. Augustus ITcinzc and the United Copper Cop-per company, which have kept the federal fed-eral authorities busy because of the disappearance of the eompan3r?s books, needed by the grand jury to clear up loans alleged to have been made 1)3 Hcinzo while he was head of the Mercantile bank during the panic of i 1007, were clarified somewhat today, and yet seemingly complicated. George Baglin." second vice-president of the United Copper company, and secretary to lionize, who was placed in the Tombs yesterday for contempt, of court, was released today. .It is understood under-stood this action followed his removal from the board of directors. While no announcement io this effect was made, a meeting of the stockholders stock-holders was held, and" this resulted in the election of a board in which Baglin Bag-lin 's name does not appear. Mr. TIein7.c was reelected a director, as was Stanley Gifford of New York, and the following new names appear: Salt Lake in Board. Daid Michael johu, Butte, Mont.; Richard Kilrov, Butte, Mont.; A. A. Dunham, Salt 'Lake City; M. M.. Joyce. New York; George Lane, Montreal; William T. Byrnes. Montreal, and Adrian Wyckoff, Newark, N. J. These men presumably replace seven old directors, di-rectors, including Paglin and John Mac-Ginniss, Mac-Ginniss, Chester Glass, Sanford "Robinson. "Robin-son. H. G. Abel, W. J. Curtis and Collin Col-lin Warfield. F. Augustus JTeinr.c was not present at the mooting, but his representative, holding a proxy for 210.000 shares, was on hand, and it is presumed, therefore, that the board is under Heinze's control. con-trol. While the stockholders were meeting the disappearance of the books wns being be-ing further aired before Judge Lecombo in the United Slates court. " Judge Lacombe agcecd early in the dav to give Sanford Robinson, who, as a director, faces prison sentence for alleged al-leged contempt. until Frida3- to answer the charge. The grand jury minutes were Toad, giving some details of Baglin s testimony concerning Hie disappearance of the books. This showed, in effect, that on May 10 he had been instructed .by llcinzc and Robinson, at Hie company's office, to find the janitor and arrange to remove two stronj: trunks lhat had just been taken outside. He did so. and the trunks were removed. re-moved. They contained the books of the company "sought by t he grand jury. Where they were taken lo, Baglin said he did not. know. Claim of Privilege Made. Pobinson, it will be. recalled, refused to throw any further light on the whereabouts where-abouts of the books on Ihe. plea that he was privileged to tnkc this attitude because of his position as counsel. It is this stand which now threatens him with contempt, and will bo heard on Friday. Arthur P. ITeiir.e, who was present when the books were takeu away, and who also took the same stand of" privileges privi-leges as Pobinson. may be considered further. According lo information given out at the United Stales district attorney's attor-ney's office tonight. TTcinze is not registered with the clerk of the court of appeals at Albany as a lawyer, although al-though hp graduated from Columbia aud practiced until about JS91. Another angle in the Hoinzo tangle was heard today in the first examination examina-tion iu bankruptcy into the affairs of M. Tfothenbergcr & Co.. a defunct brokerage firm, for whose failure it has been charged that F. A. Uoinr.o was responsible. ITcinze will be called as a witness at the hearing on Tuesday, JuueS. May Contest Election. The question of the legality of the election of the new directors was raised tonight, and it was reported that members of the old board would meet -tomorrow, maintain thai they were still the duly accredited directors, and vole I lo ousl TTeinzo from the presidenc- of the company. Today's election is questioned on the ground that Tlcin.o's representative ignored ig-nored the five million dollars of preferred pre-ferred stock and proceeded on tho theory the-ory that a majority of the common stock was sufficient to elect. If ireinzc's move is successful he will have accomplished two things: Firstly, secure control of the new directorate, di-rectorate, and secondly, place tho old directors in a position where thoj- cannot can-not bo subpoenaed as officers of the company and held in contempt for failure fail-ure to produce the missing books. Stau-ley Stau-ley Gifford, one of tho new directors, sailed for Europe more than a week ago. |