Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-05-14

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> ance Company, and / have BEEN I
; cused of slandering said compau
l care not to make a public deni,
but only wish TO submit the accor
panying sworn afidavits of parti
not interested in the insurance bu
mess. Since this transpired, an
since the Secretary has been notife
OF it, l have seen a letter from tn,
worthy official wherein he stat,
that he sees no reason for cancelliu
that policy! / am willing to subm
to a candid public whether a CON
pany whose officers, acting for tn
company in an official capacity, pei
petrate and sanction such outrage
las this, is a safe institution wit
which to transact business.
+. G. Suffer,
Richland, Oak, May 18th, 1884
Mrs. Rebecca Crotzer. of Richlan,
Dakota. first being duly sworn, o,
"ath dep"ses and says that:
On Dr. about the 18th day Of Apri
1884, that two parties came to he
home, one OF whom represented him
self as the general agent Of the Sioux
Falls Insurance Company, while the
other remained in the buggy. She
ing himself as the general agent
came to Inc while l was at work in
the garden, and said: "Ah! you are
making gnrden;" and thensaid that
he was nm insurance agent for the
Sioux Falls company, and asked il
l had my house insured. told him
that / wasn't ready to have the
house insured-that it wasr't finish
ed. Then he said, let's 60 and see
it inside. We came into tn, house,
and he kept asking me to insure,
and l told him every time | would
not. During this conversation he
took out o paper and filled i out. l
told him not to fill out any papers,
that l wouldn't insure. He said
that he was not filling out any pa
pers, but was reckoning up what my
house and property was worth. l
him that l wouldn't take q hun.
dred dollars for what was in the
that l didn't have much
down here, but the most was up
stairs. Then he put his hand slow
ly in his pocket and pulled out a
pack of notes during the converse
which had passed to other SUBJ
iects besides insurance. Befdfe this
time l had told him that my son
and l always consulted together on
such things before we did anything
about it. When he pulled out the
notes l told him that he needn't
make out any note, that I wouldn't
'ign it. He said that wasn't what
,e was going to do, but he went on
md filled it out before me, but l
couldn't read it, and he didn't tell
ne what it was. He gave me no
of anything he wrote
When he was here. Then he put
he note and papers in his pocket
nd went to the boy, who was plow-
ng in the field. ! told him that if
did want to insure after the house
vas done there would be insurance
gents at Elk Point, and then he
aid that i'll wanted to find out
nything or to insure in their COM
any l could 60 to John r. Wood.
am q widow woman; am sixty
ears old, and l and my son, who is
Ding on nineteen years of age, live
,gether. The day these men were
ere | was ut home alone, and my
IN was at work in the field. These
len were at my house between
4 O'Clock in the afternoon, and
did not know anything further
bout it until my son came in from
field, after shutdown, then l told
i'm an insurance agent was here
nd wanted me to insure, but l did
t. My son said, What does this
l mean; he brought the note out
lere and told me to sign your name
it l told him that the man told
q that he wasn't making a note,
Id l didn't know that he had any
,te made. We wrote John r.
God a letter that same evening and
ut it in the post-ofice the next
orning, demanding that note. A
an came owe whom my son said
as John r. Woods son-in-law or
'other-in-law. This man said he
ceived the letter we had directed
John r. Wood about the insur-
ice that FELLOW took on the house.,
1T that he couldn't understand it,
I'd he came to me to get an under
anding of it. He said that it
ould be made right. l got a poll
the same week that the man was
'er here. 1 do not read English,
l have heard the policy read,
ID the party who read it said that
e application was sent in by c. H.
her
nrBEcrxX GRurzER.
mark.
Subscribed and sworn to before
e this 18th day of May, 1884.
e. G. SUFFER-,
Notary Public.
Richland, Dak., May 18th. 1884.
rant Crotzer, being first duly sworn,
,poses and says that:
He is the son of Mrs. Rebecca
and that he is in his nine
enth year. +
He further says that in the after
of the day on which the men
ere at his mothers house they
to him while he was blowing
the field, and one Of them said,
is is Mr.. Crotzer, is it? l told him
was. Then he got out some pa