Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-07
LATEST OHIO SELL.
A stupsndous Scheme OF Grave
Yard Insurance
uNsARrHsD At WASHINGTON G. II.
Two Prominent Men Arrested and the
Wholesale Arrest Of Merchants,
Farmers and Doctors eS.
pected TO Follow.

WASHINGTON CouRr HoUsE, o., December
6.-Commissioner Of Insurance, Col. Chas.
II. Moore, has stirred up to-day one of the
greatest sensations in insurance circles ever
known in Ohio, BY the arrest OF two prom
inent citizens Of this place on charges OF
obtaining unlawful insurance. He prom
ises to follow these arrests with probably
no less than twenty others, while there are
one hundred respected citizens OF this
county more or less implicated in this stu.
pendous scheme OF ersveyardinsurance.
The Eureka Life Association, OF Indian
apolis, is the principal company charged
With this fraud. Il was organized two
years ago at Alliance, o., but under the
new law adopted last April Col. Moore
drove Il out of the State. 1t then located
in indianapolis. II Is on the mutual plan
and the scheme OF the company is TO get
policies on persons who are
Sure 20 Die Noon.
The policy in the lirst place is granted on
non.irsurable persons on the false state
ments OF the beneficiary, who thereby
makes himself n criminal Accomplioe.
htttT usttssiutut uNs bttu "eoS ehe sa'
money raised, the company informs the
ben. Gciary that his policy is fraudulent
and n compromise Is usually effected, the
beneficiary receiving about per cent. oi
the money raised by the assessment, the
officers Of the company retaining the bal
auce.
Col. Moore. IL is sand, has secured evi
denCe from an officer oi the company that
on eight unlawful policies Of the face value
I'm. sAaA. NA fFal
amognt Of these policies was raised, as 10
supposed,
The toNpnny'> Profit Was Over sis.-
poo.
Tie law limits Insurance TO not over 5000
II siy one company, % ten graveyard
,on prniss nave formed an alliance. When
ole L, Is n victim who is sure 10 die soon
sill The other companies in the alliance
Cpy the application aud issue policies
,ith,r Ia their immediate accomplice or ~
sun,r poor rups.
The If. OF John l.. Myers. late OF the
ohio Legislature, was insured last spring
tor SinuD several days after he was dead.
There are numerous other cases where
npplic,Iion has been made after the death
NJ the person 20 be insured, in vhica cas-"
The Daic Of ,h~ Death 10 FALSELY Ne.
ported
one or two months lster than In reality IL
was. OF - cases insured in this county
since last spring only one has lived thirty
days after the policy WAS issued.
The two men arrested to day were J. l..
Hooker. ex-County Coroner, also ex nitsd
Stntss Deputy Marshal. and Bowman Hess.
A prominent undsrtnker. Evidence has
already been collected against wealt thy
merchuLtr, farmcrs. doctors aud manuiac-
,urers who have made false osths TO be-
al. Ia.
OF no kin Ia them. Col. Moore says he ha,
evidence Of i've other nests In Ohio lie
believes the arrests here will act ~ the en-
terirg wedge To- break np the disreput,bls
and dishonest hu'iness NJ parties
Who Have Gone tuto tho scheme
not fully rcai zlng It's criminality, will
hasten To turn States evidence, ~ many
have slreHdy done.
Similar frauds have been psrpetst"d ia
Indiana and Pennsylyan which thi, "a.
slaurht may help To bring.to light