The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-17

The recent sensational expose of al
legged insurance frauds created a good
deal of astonishment among The friends
OF MI Hynes. the party most interest
ed. When the charges were first made
il was done in so indirect and ire
sponsiblc Il manner that The Herald
had very grave doubts of their au-
thenticity and. consequently. not de-
string 10 do any one an injustice. re-
Trained from mentioning any names
IL its first article on the matter. MI.
Hynes, Notwithstanding the prophecy
or a newspaper in this city that, when
he hears this news he will probably
hibernate for the winter, has come
right hack and put himself straight
with his associates, and last evening
when asked for an explanation of the
matter he prepared the following state
ment for The Herald:
MR.. HYNES' STATEMENT.
TO The Editor of The Herald
In their issue OF the 18th inst, the
Tribune had an article in reference 10
myself, in which l was accused by one
WiesendoncI OF writing COW blyS, who
carry guns. and numerous other
things. In reference to that part of
the article. Will say that ! never wrote
"A cowboy in my life, and the men that
1 wrote on this trip who have anything
TO do with cattle are the owners OF
them. They are tiist-class citizens and
splendid risks for any life insurance
company. for they are both physically
and financially strong
In reference TO that part Of the ar
ticie in which it stated that l wrote
flash policies L defy any man to prove
that. l never wrote a flash policy in
my life. l never wrote a policy that
was not written at the fun rates,
which the books in my office will show
and the evidence of the holders of pol
icies, if necessary, and TO my knowl-
edge, none of the men working for
me ever did.
In reference TO delivering policies to
men who did not pay for them, when
l opened my agency here (Which was
last ApriD men who were amply able
to pay for a policy, two OF three
months later were not, on account of
the Stringeacy in the money market
L never delivered a policy 10 any man
without cash or its equivalent, who
was not in my opinion, an honest man
There is one thing l do know, that
none Of them would induce a man to
get up at i o'clock in the morning,
take his team and wagon and drive
thlrty-fiNe miles to a railroad station
TO enable him TO catch a train and not
pay him the fee agreed upon for his
services. This Mr.. Wiesendonck did
l have the mans receipt TO show where
/ paid it.
In reference to a letter mentioned in
the same article, supposed to have been
written to me from San Francisco by
some New York agent, / remember the
letter very distinctly. 1t was among
M private papers in my desk. In
said letter the man stated he would like
to come here and work with me, if
the Germania Life was as easy to
work as the New York Life or Equit-
able. Every insurance man knows
what the word work is connected
with in insgrance-it means to write
business. If a man tells you he is a
life insurance agent you Will ask him
what company he is working In ask
ing if the Germania was as easy to
work as the New York Life or Equit-
able, he merely inquired if the Ger
mania contracts were SO easily sold
As those Of the other two companies
Mr.. Weisendonck's ignorance is doubt
less responsible for this mistake
The letter written by Mr.. Royles TO
some person in Chicago was written
without my knowledge. and l will
wager $1,000 that the man Hynes men
toned in the letter was not myself:
that l can establish the fact that [
never won OF lost SO in a gambling
house in my life. / never was inside
OF to exceed four or five. know moth
ing about gambling devices.
L have written on my trip in the last
six or seven weeks starting in at Salt
Lake and working through to Moab.
some eighty applications. There never
WIS better lot of business written.
While many of the policies were small.
they were all good risks physically and
able to carry the amount that l wrote
them.