The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-13
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christian heart good 1t would have re-
newed your strength and courage further
to prosecute your disinterested and benevO-
lent work of insuring the lives of husbands
for the benefit of their wives, in such
manner as to continue to command the con-
fidence and the support of the company.
| complain of you for slandering and cal
umniating my dead husband, by imputing
to him the grossest fraud and deception,
and by alleging "oongenital mallorma-
ton or defect" on his part, of such ma
ture that its investigation involves public
exposure of the most delicate and private
circumstances appertaining to married life,
and which allegation you have sought to
sustain solely by admissions made TO y0u
by him, after he is in his grave and cannot
contradict you, In respect to those pre-
tended admissions. ] complain of you for
compelling me TO abandon the pleasant and
comfortable little home in this city, so
long enjoyed by us, in order that ! might
receive the rent or income from it where
with to procure bread for myself and chill
dren.
And, finally, still further complain of
you and your liberal and honorable compa-
ny, for executing the threat under which
you drove my enfeebled and distracted
husband into relinqushng the policy and
employing your great wealth and power to
compel me to use up in litigation the small
remnant of property left to me, when l
make the attempt to obtain redress for the
wrong and injustice which you have prac-
ticed upon me. MARY l.. ST1LwELL.
YoNEERs, June %, 1876
! would state that as the administrator of
Mr.. Stilwel, and on behalf of Mrs. Still
well, / called upon Mr.. Fayette 2. Brown
day or two after the publication of his
statement in Tile TOakerS Statesman, and
asked him If he would make an affidavit to
the truth of the matters Contained in it,,
and that he refused to do so.
ANDREW ARCHIBALD.
YoNKERs, June 80, 1876.
MIR. HoYT's AFFIDAVIT.
tity Of Yonhcrs, Comfy of Westcheste1', SIS :
Arson Il. Hoyt being duly sworn, doth
depose and say that deponent was well
and intimately acquainted with the late
John NJ. Stilwell, of Yonkers, almost from
his infancy until his DEATH that deponent
on the 25ih day Of October, 1866, insured
the said Stilwel in the North America
company, Of which deponent was then an
agent, in the sum of ten thousand dollars,
for the benefit of the wife of the said Still
well that the said Stilwell was, at the
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good health and physical condition, and
continued in such condition down until the
first day of June, 1875, the time of the
commencement of his last Illness that de-
ponent never knew or suspected that the
said Stilwell was laborlng under the in
trinity now imputed TO him; on the con-
trAry, deponent of his own knowledge
knows that said imputation is entirely false
and destitute Of the least foundation in
truth or in fact. Deponent further says
that he knew of the transaction of the sur
render of the said policy and the issuing OF
the new one by the mutual insurance com
psny at the time it took place, and that de-
ponent strongly advised the said StIlwel
and demonstrated against the act, assuring
the said Stilwel that his former policy
was entirely safe under all circumstances
bat that Fayette p. Brown would listen tc
no objection or refusal, but continued his
opportunities until the said Stlwell yield
ed his consent; that the said Brown caused
DR.. j. Foster Jenkins, the medical exam
liner of the Mutual, to go to the store OF
the said Stiwell to make his examination,
and that the said Brown himself carried
the policy, when it was issued, to Siiwelrs
store, and there delivered it 10 him.
ANsoN B. HoYT.
Sworn to before me this third day of
July, 1876. EDWARD p. BAIRD,
City Judge of Yonkers.