The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-10
EYRE'S DISAPPEARANCE.
An Insurance Broker Who
Has Left Himself and
Several Creditors.

! George II. Eyre, an insurance broker.
departed from this city last Saturday for
parts unknown-that is, unknown to a
score or more of persons who feel deep
| financial interest In him aud his where
abouts. George ii. Eyre was plausible
and neatly appearing individual who
rented a room to sleep in at No. 10 Henry
street, and room for desk in the Office of
Justice of the Peace Aldridge. He was
an insurance broker and made that fact
known very generally to the sorrow of
some Of those who became acquainted
with the fact.
George II. Eyre. accompanied by an
officer of the London and Lancashire In
surance Company, one day about o ne
year and half ago, entered Justice AL
dridge's Office. The Justice had been one
of the representatives of this com pany in
Jersey City and the officer of the Com
pany introduced Eyre as q branch man
ager.
Eyre made arrangements to locate there
and began business. He was very sue
cessful, so much so that he had soon
obtained large clientage and had OBJ
sorbed all of the patrons of the Justice,
which naturally grieved that gentleman
very much. He complained Of this un-
professional conduct to Eyre and also to
the London & Lancashire Company. The
company did not interfere and the JUS
tice handed In his resignation as un
agent.
Eyre continued to increase his business
About this time his wife died. and soon
after a child followed its mother. The
second child was sent TO Irvington to be
On y . M
When these troubles fell on Eyre he
sought consolation in the black bottle. 1t
cost him his business, for from the time
he began his devotion to IL he neglected
his clients and his business, and 1t rapidly
grew less and less.
THE COMPANY DRoPPED HIM.
1t had been the custom OF Eyre to in
sure people in other companies than the
one he directly represented, and in this
way ne took large number of persons to
Frank Stevens TO be insured in companies
he represented He also did the same
business with the Equitable Life Insur-
ance Company and obtained a policy for
Mrs Parsons ON the life of her husband,
for which she. il is said, paid him S55.
Mrs. Parsons was recently burned out at
the Newark avenue fire. near the kive
corners. When il became known tothe
London and Lancashire Company that
Eyre was drinking whiskey and not at
tending to his work, the company
dropped him. His struggle TO make both
ends meet after that was a hard one. and
to do 1t he finally insured people in any
company he could. collected the money
for premiums and in many cases failed to
pay it to the companies.
Even this did not enable him 10 live as
he desired, aud he obtained considerable
money by borrowing. Frequentlyhe would
give his check on the First National
bank for the amount borrowed. In this
way in December he obtained s25 from
Noah ID. Taylor Jr. and SO from j. j.
Kinkead. OF No. 55S Newark avenue.
Both checks were worthless and on
KinKhead's the paying teller of the First
National Bank wrote the following
Not good and never will be at this
bank"
1t is said that Eyre got 500 from one
man in this manner just prior to his dis
appearance. Lawyer Max Salinger Is
looking for him on behalf of Taylor and
will arrest Eyre as soon as he makes his
appearance.
During the past week at least score OF
persons Eyre insured through Frank
Stevens and others have made complaints
to Mr.. Stevens and Justice Aldridge that
they had paid their money but had not
received the policies.
Mr.. Stevens, when spoken to about the
matter today, admitted that such was the
case. but he declined to say anything
further than that the companies would
lose nothing by Eyre's financial actions,
and that he intended to arrange IL SO that
the insured persons would lose nothing
also.
A MYSTERIOUS CABLEGRAM.
The day Eyre went away he received q
cablegram from Europe which bore the
single word "Impossible."
A relative of his was asked to explain
this cablegram and he said:-'Eyre sent
to England, where he has relatives, aud
asked them to send $500, which would
have assisted him out of his difficulties
The answer to the request was what the
cablegram said"
AT No. 10 Henry street. where Eyre
rented room, his landlady said last Sat-
urday Eyre told her he was gong out
West. He packed his trunks and had
them expressed to Irvington. He owed
his landlady some room rent, but gave her
two pictures IN lieu Of cash.
IL was said at the First National Bank
that Eyre had an account in that institu-
tion. He was introduced by prominent
business man, and afforded the facilities
of the bank. His account became a lIt-
tie sealey after a while, and some
checks were refused payment. How many
there were of them ana for what amounts
the bank officials could not say. as they
did not keep account OF them. The bank
has lost nothing through Eyre, as it
stopped payment on all checks as soon as
it was discovered that there Were no
funds TO Eyre's account to meet them.