The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-02

A Well-KnOwn Insurance Agent
is Found Guilty of Crooked
Practices.
He Is About to be Arrested but
Succeeds I'm Enecting
Communities

There arrived on the train from the south,
Friday night, Mr.. Purl Parker, promi-
nent business man of Carthage, armed
with a state warrant for the arrest of
well-known insurance agent Of this city, on
the charge of obtaining money under false
pretsnses. Yesterday morning the warrant
was placed in the hands of Marshal Bar
nett for service, but by request the marshal
held it until Mr.. Parker could see If it was
possible to make satisfactory settlement
with the delinquent agent. Dir. Parker is
the man from whom the money was OBJ
tanned, and he came armed with all of the
powers Of an officer TO take the alleged
ssindlef back to Carthage with him. Dur
ing the forenoon the insurance agent and
his victim got together and managed to
make settlement entirely satisfactory to
the latter, hence no arrest was made.
A BAzoo reporter had brief
interview with Mr. Parker, who is
engaged in the livery stable business
at Carthage, in which the particulars of
the questionable transaction. were learned
and are stated briefly as follows: gr.
Parker had known the insurance agent,
who had frequently been one of hiscustom-
ers during the past two years. He had
always settled his bills promptly and was
regarded by him as straight man. Con-
sequently on the 18th of January last when
the insurance man applied to him to en-
dorse his draft for $25 on Kansas
bank, he unhesitatingly complied with the
equest. Shortly after this Mr. Parker was
again approached by the insurance agent,
who stated that he had drawn q draft fer
SIS through the Webb City bank, on the
Kansas bank, but owing to mistake made
by the fosmer bank, the draft had been re-
turned, and the endorser was making him
trouble about the matter. At the request
of his patron, Mr.. Parker paid this draft
together with the profess fee. In few
DAYS after this, tine DRAFT which Mr.. Parker
had endorsed was returned protested. IL
the mean time the maker of the drafts had
left the city, and the accommodating en-
dsrser found himself something over $50
out. After trying in vain to obtain repara-
ton from the willy insurance agent, his
victim resorted to legal measures as above
stated, and when the stalker of risks" foand
himself uHder the shadow of the penitenti-
airy, as it we're, he quickly began 70 hustle
to make a satisfactory settlement. He
soon succeeded in executing good and
negotiable note, payable thirty days after
date. Three well-known citizens signed
the uote, and Mr.. Parker left for home las.
evening perfectly satisfied. He says that
he has no desire to injure the man who has
thus gone wrong, and only took the course
he did in order to protect his own. He
saws that the drafts were drawn through the
Elk City bank on F. Cross, AID, their
maker still maintains that eros is indebted
to him. "Be that as it may" said Mr..
Parker, at is no excuse for the man whom
favored in a business way, to not settle
the matter instead of compelling me to re-
sort to the course have. / hope the at
fair will not appear in the newspapers, Is
he lives here and have no desire to IN
| iure his reputation, besides / assure you
that do not banker after any newspaper
notoriety OF that nature"