Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 273, 30 June 1906 — TUPPER DEPARTS FROM CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

TUPPER DEPARTS FROM CHICAGO

For Three Months He Has Been on Lake Michigan's Shores Expect.- , ing 6torm to Break—No New Developmetns There

Special to Tho Herald.'

CHICAGO, June 29.— Wilbur S. Tupper, who resigned his position as president of the 'Pacific Mutual Life Insurance company as a result, it is alleged, of pressure by the company's directors after hearing stories concerning him and a Los Angeles woman, departed from the Auditorium Annex June 26. Ho left no forwarding address and his locoatlon was not known . today by the local agency of tho company. It Is feared that Tupper may have been affected by the alleged scandal which cost him his $12,000 position more seriously than was thought at the time. Tupper was formerly a student and later an Instructor at tho University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wls. He was a noted athlete in his youthful days. For many yoars he has been on the Pacific coast In the insurance business.

For three months Tupper has been In Chicago or near hero. He was in the city ostensibly on business for his company. It was reported from Los Angeles that the real reason for his coming was to be found In threats of exposure of an alleged Los Angeles scandal. Oeorgo I. Cochran, director of the company, retux - ned to San Francisco on June 25 with Tupper's resignation, it is said.-

Danford M. J3aker, local representative of the company, went with Mr, Cochran and will not retbrn for a fortnight. „ ,