The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-21

was the name of WILLIAM e.
NIBLACK. He had been known to
the people for many years, and besides
being the representative of the people
in Congress, and having filed other
high offices of trust and profit, was
understood, by all who knew him, to
be careful and shrewd business man.
who would engage in nothing in which
he toas likely to lose any money. His
name was used with very great effect
in this part of the State, in inducing
the farmers, especially of his own
partyeto insure in the organization.
Hundreds of policies were obtained
which otherwise would not have been,
except for the use of the name Of
NIBBAGK as a Director-as one Of the
men, who would have the manage
mentlof its affairs and be responsible
for its correct and fair dealing, and
make good the representations of
these travelling agents. 1i3E -
Under these circumstances the pol
icies of Insurance were taken, the
premiums paid, thenotes given, and the
enterprising agents departed, rejoic
ing in the rich fees they had earned,
and the farmers consoling themselves
with the idea that their houses and
their barns were secure from danger,
and that too at such trifi1ing price.
The records of the Company show
that in a very short period of time,
by the methods used, as stated, the
aggregate of Insurance exceeded a
HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS. ~.
But in little while after the de-
parture of the first agent, these hon
est farmers and laboring men, who
had confded SO implicitly in the rep
reservations of the Company's agents
and WILLIAM E. NIBLACK'S
name, were waited upon by another
agent, and a demand was made upon
them for further payment to defray
the heavy erpeHses of the Company,
and the occasional losses by fire..
And, in less than six months there
after, a second time were they called
upon to make still further contribu-
tons to replenish the depleted trea-
sury of this grand scheme, whereby
cheapinsurance was to be had. And,
when the policy holders stoutly re-
resisted the demand for these unex-
pected and unwarrantable payments
Gas they claimedl, and pleaded the
repp~-~HUa uie--~ of the agani-- = s.- 44he
Company, they were coolly Informed
that the Company was not responsible
for unauthorized representations, and
that here were their notes, and unless
they we're paid at once, suit would be
brought, and they would be compelled
to pay, at the end of a long and ex-
pensive law suit. Much as the quiet
and law-abiding citizens were aaverse
to being brought into court, to de-
fend themselves against their own
notes, they chose that course, rather
than suffer money to be thus extracted
from them. The suits were brought
all over this District. And, much TO
the amusement and the indignation Of
the people, the very instrument Sc
lected to prosecute them before the
Court, and extort from them the
money, which they insisted was sought
to be dishonesty and fraudulently
forced from them, was the very man
whose name had been used to decoy
them into the company, WILLIAM
Z. NIBLACK; the man who was
their Representative in the highest
Legislature of the nation, the man in
whose integrity and business judg-
ment they had SO implicitly relied he
it was who had lent himself to this
purpose. Byreference to the records
of the Courts, it will be found that in
Gibson, 9in Posey, in Warrick, in every
county in the District where suits
were instituted, they are brought by
"NIBLACK and DEWoLF, Attor-
neys for the Sinnissippi Insurance
Company" To prove this fact, we
copy the first part of a complaint in
the Gibson Circuit Court, as sample
of all the rest Of the hundreds of
suits now pending: sffd
"s G4a1os 0c co fsR4ASA' SO.
In the Gibson Circuit Court, January
Term, 1866. ~ it4
The Sinnissippi Insurance Company, a
Corporation duly organized and existing,
under and by virtue of the laws Of the