The Portland daily press., 1885-01-28
ALLEGED CROOKEDNEss.
How the WaIdObOrO Wan fn said TO Have
Victimized His Creditors.


Further particulars have been received con-
cerning Capt. Joseph Dewyea, late Of Waldo
boro and Brewer, but now supposed to be in
Canada, who is charged with having been so
smart as to succeed In getting away with some
$4,000 OF other peoples money. The story Is
that some two months ago his stock and build
ings on Hog Island, in Brewer, were barned,
entailing loss of $500 as per schedule pre-
sented in adjustment. The property was os-
tensibly insured for S2,300-one policy for
81, 300 and another for $1,000. His loss claim
of $500 was closely scutinizsd, but, no oppor-
tunity Of reducing it below $1,000 being found,
it was approved. After this was done he came
forward with third policy Of 600 which he
claimed to have entirely forgotten and over
looked.
AT this point the insurance adjusters com
menced to object, but Mr.. Dewyea's attorney
claimed that they owed his client the amount
OF all three policies or nothing, and the insur-
ance was paid. A WaldoboFo bank held the
policies as collateral for loans of some S2,0co.
Mr.. Dewyes went to the bank and represented
he must have the policies to adjust the insur-
ance, promising to return the checks to the
bank. The bank surrendered the policies, and
a week ago Saturday MIR. Dewyea pocketed
the insurance companies checks for $500,
$500 being deducted for salvage, and Monday
he and his son, II years of age, started for
Portland to "pay about $1,000 owed there"
Tuesday, Mrs. Dewyea and two daughters,
aged about IS and 81 years, respectively, closed
their Waldoboro residence and left town to
join, it is supposed, the husband and father.
Some FIVE years ago Mr.. Dewyea's store and
residence in Brewer burned, whereby he Sc
cured $1,000 insurance. This season, vessel
on which he held the insurance sunk off Se-
guin, and Brewer owners still await their in
surance. On the Sd Of January he loaded the
schooner j. g.. Craig at Portland with build
ing materials to be used in the erection of
store and hall on Hog Island, where he is sup
posed to have owned q summer residence and
100 acres of bowling wilderness. The master
Of the Craig, in addition to his freight money
is said to be ont some $500 as indorser. 1t Is
reported that Dewyea has left many financial
| ly interested in him in Waldoboro BrunsWick
and the surrounding towns.
1t is alleged that the meanest acts were those
| perpetrated on the man who found him poor
fisherman, made him master Of one of his yes
sells and started him in business, and upon q
man who took the contract for erecting his
building, and whose only property-the pro-
duct OF the savings of a lifetime-was farm,
worth perhaps 81, 900. This old man, whom, It
| is said, he induced to indorss for him to the
extent OF 81 800, last week went to the bank
and rendered his farm In settlement Mr..
Dewyea is said to have paid no bills since last
June, telling his creditors his goods were trust
ed out to fishing vessels and they could not pay
until this winter, when they marketed their
catch. 1t Is said that he was thus enabled to
buy and sell from So, 600 to $4,000 worth Of
| goods. There are quite number OF Portland
| firms interested in Dewyea's operations, among
| them being Cousins & Tomlinson to the extent
OF 81 600, A. Little & Co., $780, w. f. Jordan,
| Berlin Mills Co., and Smith, Tibbetts & Co.