Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-23
Pas, Him Around.

| | Iinkhdin, naVlng operated success fully in small way in Tucson, im
 Inediately left for fresh pastures upon
 his exposure by tue CITIZEN. As he
 may attempt to ply hIs vocation in otber
 cities of the southwest, we publish the
 following account of his exploits. from
 the April number of the San Francesca Coast.
 His name Is George NJ. Pinkham, erst- whIle d resldeut Ut Oakland, Gal, aud solicitor Ot life lusuranCe Tor d we'll
 known company. lie cdme to California i've or SIX years ago, and ~IIIle employ ed III the capdclty UI lie Insurance agent, developed crUOkedness winch speedily
 threw hlm Out OI em, ,'lnyment After q
 season Of wretched uueInplOyed exls-
 teAce he approached the Pa.Iiic Coast nAudser of q srduucn life Iusurauce
 company, told d pIIIIui tale of necessItJ |,
 and ~ltn numilIty aud weIl-feIgned VOW D
 of refoTmdtIun begged for employment.
 The fact that fluknaIn had wiIe and
 family adIed weIg ht tU hIs requests and
 he Was gwen trIal.
 For a season ali went well. Pinkham
 Is d nau Ol pleasant address and Ill.,
 slnuatIng manners. lie gathered con-
 siderable business, and seemed H. tdir
 way to become useful and honestly
 reformed mdu. But Le couldn't stand
 prosperity, nor long continue Ill the
 paths OI Tecttude.
 Last October he went to Nevada
 County, and while there succeeded Ill
 lnsurlug three men, named respectively,
 John GOyne, JUsepn N MlliIdms and N m. iT. Hampton. Each Of these took out
 ten-year endowment pO llcles ID amounts
 aggresaung So.UUJ, upOu winch the
 premiums amounted to SS67. He also induced one kUiIler, who had already
 taken out a life policy for SluUUO tU ex- change II for d ten-y ear endowment. poilcy, and received the additional pre-
 mum Ot S6JO therefore, for which he gave hls IudivIdaIi receipt.
 Plnkham soon after returned to San ErSncIscU, made hl- report to tue maua- ger Of the company, stating that all hIs accounts were Closed, that he had no bills due, and that what he had reported Was all the business he had transacted, put he mt only failed to report the In surances of Guyne, Williams and Han. b. ton, and the transaction with hoLlei, but denied having had any such business. Upon what business he reported there Was d balance due hun uf S2l5, winch he diew, and then started for Salt Lake City to solicit new business.
 On November 2l, soon after Pinkham's departure for the city of Latter Day Saints, John GOyne, of Omega, Nevada Co. Cal, wrote the manager of the com pany, stating that himself and uthers had been insured by FlIkham more than d month previous, but had not received their policies. Naturally they either wanted their policies or their money re- funded.
 The manager immediate ly telegraph ed to PInkham for an explanation, and m answer thereto the latter, on Nuyem- Der 24th, wrote tO the manager. stating that he had insured Goyne, Williams | and Hampton and using this language: |
 Il sent you, on the 1fh of ihIs month, l three applicatiOns-Mr. GoyBe for S3UOu, ! Mir. Joseph Williams for S3Up, aud Mr. 1 Wm. Hampton for S2OO, all 1O-year en- also check of the Yuba l Mining Company for S4l5, and two Sl0O | grern6Hck bills, all Ill the same envelope, l making S6l5.
 A thorough investigation failed to find | any trace of the alleged check and ap- pllcatlons. The pustuflice authOrities | warmed np upon the suspicion having | been thrown upon the postmaster ai | Washington. Nevada Co, aud set it, | machinery at work. It Was proved thai no such letter was mailed, and that nu such man as J. c. Thomas lived in that | town. and that no S4l5 check of the Tuba | Mining Company was abruad Pinkham l had stated to the manager that he got | the check from one J. C. Thomas, at l Washington, Nevada county.
 In response to another telegram from | the manager for further information, l Pinkham, on December 4th, wrote, re | iteratiAg the substance of his former | letter. except that he said:
 "I sent you by mal two S100 bills, and | S4l5 III 1uba mining checks, which were | all small checks"
 Tue manager sent a special agent on | to Salt Lake City, who arrived there on December 6tb, and corfrnted Pinkham, who sioutly ayerred that hIs statements in his letters were correct.
 On December 9th, three days after lbe special agent had first interviewed Pink ham, there was mailed in that city let ter addressed to ",ieo. w. Pinkham. Oakland. Cal" containing the three ap- plicaiIOus of Messrs. Goyne, Williams and Hampton. When the letter arrived it its destination, Mrs. Pinkham took 1t from the office, and discovering its con- tents, carried 1t to the manager of the company, thinking 1t should be in his hands. The production of the applica- ,iOns naturally knocked the gilt edge of jf Plnkham's pretty plot.
 On December 10th. after repeated so- icltatiOns on the part of the special agent, Pinkham confessed that he had ost the S6O0 collected from Mr. Kohler. u gambling with the proprietor of n ho- iel at Nevada City.
 It thus was proved that Pinkham's that he had sent the applica -ions and money therefor m the same envelope. was false, that his statements To the manager resp, cting tie business lone in Nevada county were untrue, and hat his whole course III connection with .he risks cited WAS one of Justification and dupliciiy of the grossest character. Upon the denouement of his sWindling operations. the company immediately dismissed Mr. George NJ. Pinkham, and published the fact in the daily papers of Salt Lake. It IS understood that he is now employed by another prominent fife insurance company, and his new field Df operations Is Colorado. He ought to be behind the strong bars rf stOnt State prison. We warn the insurance that he Is swindler, an ar -ant rogue and an ungrateful scoundrel. We regret that he Is at large where he may do more harm. The only other re- sret We have IS, that We are compelled -o devote SO much space to the expose of ,uch a contemptible swindler anl hypo- rite as Is George M. Pinkbam.