The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-17
GRAVEYARD INSURANCE
AS Worked by,a Wheeling Agent.
Ho Writes Policy
GUARANTEEING ON HISDEATHBED
Mrs. G. c. Wlnzcnrlcd Relates How
She Secured u Policy, that Wasn't
Policy, on Her Husbands Life.
Agent Al. Bycrcy's Hearing Con.
tinued, aud Ho Himself Rccommit.
t,u 90 I,p teH |rH 1

From tho documentary evidence sub.
mittcd to Squire Ankle yesterday it was
apparent that A, ]. Byerly, the insur.
ance agent, was not a bit particular
about the risks no insured for his com.
pany. On tho seventeenth day Of last 0c-
tober the late Mr.. G. G. Winzenried was
insured by Byerly in tho Provident life
insurance company, and 50 90 was paid
in by Mrs. Winzenried. On January
10 tho secretary Of tho company dis
covered that a policy had been issued
10 Winzcnricd, and when tho second
payment was made by Mrs. Winzen.
ried, no gave the money, S. 20, to Dyer
ly with instructions to cancel the policy
and return tho money, as lWinzenried
was sick and his application never
should have been accepted,
During Byerly's hearing yesterday,
Oh tho charge oil having obtained
money by false pretensc. Mrs. Winzen-
ried testified that Byerly had como to
her, informed her that tho policy
had to DO cancelled, but said, that tor
81 50 more he would insure her hus.
bands life in tho American Mutual In
suranco company, OF Elkhart, Ind,
After some hesitancy, Mrs. Winzenriod
gave the agent tho money. Last Satur-
day, February -, she hunted up Byerly,
told him that her husband was dead,
and asked for tho policy. The agent
told her that he had sent on tho money
and was expecting to receive the policy.
ii tho latter was refused, the money
would DO returned to Mrs. Weinzenreid.
lie also told her that no already knew
OF her husbands death.
Byerly took the stand and admitted
that he had not sent the money to
Elkhart, but produced an application
for policy on Winzenried's lie, which
application had been returned to him
from Elkhart for emcndation. He had
notsent in the money. he said, because
1t was customary for insurance agents
orctain the money, take out their com
mission and send on the balance when
the application was accepted. He
claimed that he had committed no Of
Tense and had intended to return the
money to Mrs. Winzenried.
The application Bycrly had sent on 10
Elkhart was the proof OF the way some
agents do up the companies they repre-
sent. The applicatio n contains several
questions, which are to be answered by
the party desiring policy, and some to
be answered by the agent. From the
testimony it was proved that Mr.. Win
zenrlcd was not present when the an
swers were filed. Ono question asks
as to the pation's health, and Byerly
wrote the answer Good" when the fact
was that Winzcnried was sick in bed at
the time. Another question is, HAS
the risk ever been sick at any time in
his lifo?" Never" wrote Byerly.
what is his appearance as to general
health ?" Good" wrote the agent, aud
Winzcnried was at that moment sick in
bed, or was at least outside OF the range
OF Byerly's vision.
The evidence MI being in, Squire
Ankle took the matter into considcra.
ton, and announced that he would
give his decision on Thursday at p. m.
Byerly was remandcd to Jail.
The hearing OF the case OF assault
and battery and ,rcspass, charged
against Jack Lash and Burt Haggerty,
was postponed until Wednesday at
p. m.
Robert Purcell, charged with illici3
intercourse with Mamie Stevens, APP
pcarcd before Squire Arkle yesterday
and gave himself up. He was released
on his own recognizance and the hear
inc set for tro o,clncl. this afternoon