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Show CHARGE FRAUD TO INSURANCE HEN Wholesale Forgeries of the Policy-Holders Ballots Is Accusation Made Against New YorK Companies. NEW YORK. April s.Startllnf charges 1 of wholesale forgeries of ballots of policyholders policy-holders ik the recent Insurance elections were mafie aaalast the officials of the Mutual Life and the New Tork Life Insurance In-surance companies by the International Polley-holdere' committees. These forgeries. for-geries. It Is alleged, were probably of a sufficient extent to keep the discredited old management In power. Every charge made by the committee is based on a ballot declared void by the Inspectors In-spectors of the State insurance department, depart-ment, which la still engaged In a canvass of votes caat on December IS, and on affidavits affi-davits of policy-holders that they did not sign the ballots counted. In each Instance the count was In favor of the administration. administra-tion. Among the charge against the officials of the New York Life are: Forging the ballots of the entire family of five policy-holders, none of whom cast a vote or take any interest in the affair. Forging the name of a New Tor merchant mer-chant on a ballot witnessed by an agent, whom he has not seen for two years. Forging a ballot of another New Yorker York-er and giving his residence, a number which Is Included In a graveyard. Forging the ballots of scores of dead polley-holdere who had long ceased to pay premiums. . ' Among the charges against the Mutual Life officials are: Wholesale forgery of policy-holders' names to "Peabody" ballots, when the policy-holders had really voted against the administration. Persuading wives to forge names of their husbands, telling them that the ballot bal-lot was a mere matter of form. The most glaring Instance of alleged fraud which has come to light relates to the New York Life canvass, according to the International committee, concerns the ballots of Charles. William. Sophia, Mary and Louise Hausaler, who are cited on the ballots as living at Forty-fifth and Eleventh Elev-enth avenues, this city. They were visited by agents or the committee. They declared de-clared that not a member of the family had voted In the recent election and that they had not lived at the Forty-fifth Street address for more than two years. Mrs. Louisa Hausaer-Blonsele made the aatonlshlng affidavit that she had been married more than two years and, had notified the New York Life of the change of her name and address more than two years ago. |