The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-09-04
Accident Tnsnranoe.

Accident insurance.
NEW York, Aug, 29.-A Phila-
delphia special to the Herald says:
1t is now reasonably certain that a
new species of crime has been devel-
oped in this country. The explosion
IF the excursion steamer 5. NJ.
FELTON, has been traced to tha act Of
man named Adriance Spears, who
carried large line Of accident
insu. ance. HIS presumed intention
was 70 disable himself seriously, so
that he might enjoy the income of
$3.50 per week, which his policies
would have produced. He was kill
ed, however, and the loss of S35, 900
on the life Of an pparent day labor
er has so startled the con plnies that
they have united t. fight the claim.
No progress has been mada in
tathoming the motive of the man
until his previous history was inquir-
ed into. PinkertoL's men now claim
to know all about the deceased.
They say that 1 5 years age he was
nisteriously shot. accidentally, as it
was declared, e hlndling a
pistol, and his receipts from several
accident policies sufficed to support
him handsomely.
On his recovery he went to San
Francisco, where it is alledged he
drew a cor Portable income during
his convalescence from a wound
that he accidentally received in the
street ear as he was passing the
locality at which row was in prog
ress. Indeed. Spears would app EAR
to have been the most unfortunate
of men or one of the most iu1us:ri-
Gus seekers of DANCE. If there was
an accident anywhere in his neigh
borhood he usually ''got it," like
the prince III " The Mascot" 1t is
asserted thai proof has been obtain
ed by the Ira velers' Icsurance Com
pany that he was also idepnifed for
shooting accident that overlook
him in New York; Of this, however
no informatlt exists here. About
10 months ago, after serving several
wears of a wandering life in Wash
ington, Ca ifornia and the west,
Spears returned to this ty and went
to live with Frederic Morris, Jew
at No. 1901 Market street.
Morris is distant relative AMI
gives the incidents that follow: On
Christmas morning, about O'Clock,
the ieweler was awakened by a knock
at his room door and Spears shouted;
There is a burglar in the house,
Fred. get up
Before Morris could reach the
ioor to open it, pistol shot resound-
ed through tile Louse and going
d ,wn the stairs he tounG his relative
lying OH the floor with bullet
wound in his right side, just bcPw
the ribs. A self-cocking English
bull dog revolver Of large calibre lay
beside the wounded man Spears
Was perfectly conscious and declar-
cd that he had been shot by tie
/ fleeing burglar. Morris picked up
the revolver and expressed astonisl-
nent that the burglar should have
thrown the weapoA away. No traces
of forcibIe entry could be tound
anywhere about the place. Tne
police were called IN AMI heard lis
story, but after considerable iayostl-
CATION dismissed il as absurd ana
improbable. Night "a afchman who
who had been on the street in front
Of the builling a. lhe moment Of the
-ho tlng swore positively tia no. ono
emerged from tile front door, threnzl
which spears bad declared shat the
would.be murderer made bis escape
! The aee:,Lcut Insurance, however,
yielded alIl.nt $50 per ~eek.