The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-12

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sell told me he never got off his bed
any more. This man Mack was con-
sumptive. Charles Arthur was just
| beating around the streets in desper-
ate condition. / used to attend him. He
| lived next door to me. | have been TO
see his wife and attended her and her
| baby many time and gave her money
to pay for prescriptions and have given
her money to buy something to eat.
ut was a mean piece of business for
me to do anything of this sort. That
man Hassell showed me such letters, /
thought | was doing a square business.
They got the policies on Mack. Bill
Fisher got one of them, They were all
in favor of Mack's mother. She knew
nothing about it at the time and did
not know until we went up there to
make out the death proofs. They got
her to sign paper, she didn't know
what. I know her well. She would not
come down to court because she was
afraid she would hurt me-
bill Fisher came up to Newport and
made out the death proofs and paid me
for my part of it. He took out three
policies on Mack, but / think threw up
all but one before he died. That was
in favor of Mack's mother, but she
never got it, Somebody got the letters
out of postoffice at Beaufort where
they were all written and directed.
The company wrote me letter stating
that they had received a letter from
Charlie Mack stating that he knew
nothing about the insurance on his
life. | think it was from the Mutual
Life Association of Buffalo. Mack got
I tJxr
certain now it was the German-Ameri-
can Mutual of Atlanta. Hassell told
me he got man to take one policy on
his hands, but he never came to make
out death proofs. Charlie Mack could
write a splendid hand. There were
three applications I signed for Mack. L
could not say how many more my
name is to as / think Hassell signed
my name TO applications without my
authority. He told me he did this at
the Morehead City trial and ! got very
much worried about it. ] was IN
enough trouble by myself without ms
putting me in deeper. Charlie Mack
had 'white-gill,' as | called it-a negro
begins to turn white and cough--a
consumptive trouble. In the Teachers
Assembly, Hassell told me when L had
those two applications that you say
were comics and the handwriting was
about to be proved Hassell's. MIR.
Abrams said he thought it was Has
sells writing and Hassell called me TO
hint was telling the lawyers IT was
not nv hand-writing-h called me
AWAY from our lawyers and says
Dock keep your mouth shut. Don t
YOU know YOU told me to sign your
name to some plpers, and L sigJieo
these papers, i told him that | did not
authorize him TO sign my name TO any
thing. Il have done enough meanness
without you getting me into " any
deeper | don't know how many more
papers he signed It to.
'sIn regard to the application on Ed
mund Hawkins in favor of Rufus TAR
Ucp. / never examined Hawkins for
Garner. | do not know whether 1T was
j transferred policy or what 1t was
did examine old man Edward about
two Years ago. but the parties for
whom I examined him dropped their
insurance year ago. am certain
Hassell has been signing my name
whenever he got ready. ms u Che !.
only examination | have ever Haoe Oh
Hawkins except one III favor Oh NY
family in the Old Wayne.
bill Fisher came to Newport ana
told me he would give me, ana III 1act'
| gave me, $50 for making out death
| proofs and told me he would give me
another so cents for making outproo1s
| of death on Charlie Mack. ana hoo
SEQ Mack later than two or three DAY ,
| before he died. / made out the oeath
| proofs as good as / could | think tins
was in the German-American or New
| York company, / don't remember
| which.
| .This application to the Mutual LIE
| ASSOCIATION on Chas. Arthur, | mica up
and am certain / did not examine the
man He did not come to me ana i
| meyer examined him. Hasseil brought
| or sent it to me at Morehead CITY.
| filed out the papers for HIM. lie
| brought them to me and asked ME TO
| fiji ont the medical examiners part
ona ,ass him and Hassell made the
| ,park did not see Charles Arthur
| about it at all. / never spoke to Chas'
| Arthur about it. Hassell brought let
| ters from the company asking for that
| Lind If insurance and | thought IT was
| all right. oo
"Chas. Arthur did not weigh over w
or 100 pounds. | should think ms
| measure of waist was "a or 20 lnches'
| Circumference of chest was about 20
inches. Figure bad and gait feeble
| Slkin was not clear and healthy Cen
erai appearance bad. Everybody
| thought he was going to die soon. That
was why he was put in the company
| HasseI frequently told me the only
| kind of risks he wanted were those
| who would die soon and he showed me
a letter inst be fore the Morehead trials
| asking me to send in more business
| inst like it. | had made up my MIND
to quit the business before ! heard OF
the trial / do not think there IS a
| claim against me dating within three
| or four months before the trial.
1T is a common piece of business and
am ashamed to tell You about IL, Ar
| thur had bowel consumption. lhere
| ,,,,o no examination of the urine.