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

gether and keep it up together and we
would divide He asked me to look
out for cases and if i could find good
one. we would take it out and carry it
together. He frequently wrote me for
this rotten insurance - anybody
around there that was going to die
shortly He wrote this. Did not leave
il, for me to infer. He wanted me to
get him a Job with Wink Taylor so we
could 60 into the insurance right.
would not speak to Wink Taylor about
him. | told him / did not care to get
further into the business. | had al
ready done more than | ought and
wanted to get out. He said damn your
morals: YOU have got to live here and
what do you care where you go after
YOU die.
The Perry Chadwick policy was
made out in favor of Sarah Chadwick
and signed in Bill Fishers handwrit-
ing. | do not know whether it was
signed when it was brought to me. 1t
was done at the Atlantic Hotel. ! did
not see Bill Fisher. Bill said to me he
reckoncd it was all right. They had
got Perry off and away. He was half
dead. We had to pay his way away
from here. | told him | did not know
him. but it was all right. What inter
est Bill had III the claim | never
learned. | do not know Fishers hand
writing.
II did not know Perry Chadwick.
Hassell brought the application to me
and sat down by me in my room and as
| would read over the questions he
would tell me what to answer. If he
did not understand it, he would have
me to read it over again and he always
told me how to answer the questions,
and did as he said. If he wrote me to
Newport sending the application, he
always had the medical examination
made out in pencil and | wrote over IT
in ink.
'Hassen made out the examination
of Shepard Davis and sent it to me and
told me he was man about the size
of Mr.. Newberry, of Newport, and !
filled up the application at Newport
according to Hassell's pencil mark, but
never saw the negro.
II never at any time examined Perry
Chadwick.
''In the case of the application TO the
Home Benefit Society, l filled same out
at Morehead City. Hassell brought it
to me and dictated the answers, telling
me what to write. | told him did not
know Perry Chadwick. | was in
hurry He told me TO go on and write
the answers according to his dlctatlon.
He told NE he wanted it for somebody
who had sent the money for it. lie
gave me 50 and gave him three exam
inations-two on Perry Chadwick.
'In regard TO the German-American
policy of Atlanta for s., 900 in Hassells
handwriting, I did not see anybody
sign applicants name.
There was never any one around
with US when we did this work. | was
rushed that evening and made out the
three examinations in Room No. 5. At
lantic Hotel, Morehead City. MI OF
the answers to the medical examiners
report were dictated by Hassell.
'When Bill Fisher came to Newport
to have death proofs made out on Mack
| charge him So He didn't have the
change, but got $3.50 which he gave To
Hassell, and Hassell gave me fifty
cents.
''Hassell does not stand well at New
port. expect they think more OF hlm
at Beaufort than anywhere else. lie
used to come up right often, but not
lately. He wrote me this morning that
YOU and Massey had come down and TO
be on the lookout for you
"Hassell told me that Doctors DAVIS.
Delamar and Mann were all in this
kind of business in order to induce me
to come in. These doctors were all
friends of mine and Hassell said he had
DR.. Arendell to go with him. 1t was
right lucky DR.. Arendell died.
''Hassell told me he had signed my
name to two applications-on on Per-
nv Chadwick and one on Arthur.
Up. II. Garner, juror, last court, saw
Hassell when he pretended to be sick.
THE last application Hassell sent
me before all this trouble came on, /
sent back to him and simply refused to
do any more of this work for him be-
cause | did not honestly believe it was
right. Hassell may have signed my
name to forty or fifty applications"
His direct examination yesterday
covered the above statement.
On REORGANIZATION DIR Perkins
stated that he had been in this insur-
ance business about one year and SIX
months; that he had taken out insur-
ance for the benefit of himself and
family on negro at Newport named
Edmund Hawkins, whom he had fed
and supported for some months Prev
Gus to his death. Hassell was the agent
i'm this case, and he was the doctor.
The medical examination had been
honestly made. The negro lived thir-
teen months after the insurance was
effected. The company paid Perkins
as beneficiary $207.50. 1t was the Old
WAYNE Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, of indianapolis, Ind. This com
pany is not connected with the present
prosecution in any way. Witness does
not know where Perry Chadwick is.
Never heard that he had died.
| n,ac+ior nv Mr. Clark. GLOW much