The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14
@oI1E'S INSURANCE GAME
--rFD PREMIUMS ON POLICIES
COLL WE'RE NOT DELIVERED.

lied As an Insurance
'nd,er-PrOmised 10 Deliver Pol
8 and Took the Money for
-said He Would Have Made
D.Iiveries IL He Had Not Been
..ted so SOOn-Judge MacDOn-
deserves His DecisiOn-Other
r,,, court Cases.
White. charged with cheating and
l,,r through representing himself
agent for different insurance COM
was tried in the city court before
-, MacDoneH yesterday.
lawson, colored, who keeps a bar
an West Broad street. was one of
.-i,cipaI witnesses against White Ac-
-,,-g 10 his statement, White went TO
and told him he thought he could get
nee for him. although Lawson had
- times been refused by regular
Is White said he would let him know
8 s.,, il in a day or two. Two days later,
.-son states, White returned and told
- he had got the insurance from Messrs.
Dayant & Son, to the extent of $500.
:. ,old him, however, that he wanted the
.,.rlurn. which was So, in advance. which
=. paid by Lawson, and the latter took
,scelpt. White told him he would deliver
NJ policy in a day or two.
T, was shown by other witnesses that
White had obtained money from them in
As same way, except that he did not name
ne companies from which he was to get
ne insurance, but gave numbers on Bay
. street at which it was found, on investi-
" utlon. there were no insurance COM
s rs,es. He had about dozen of Messrs.
bearing & Hulrs cards in his pocket
when arrested.
Mr. William Lynch. another witness,
stated that White told him he represented
pearing & Hull. but said he did not take
a1v insurance from him. He did state
however, that he cashed a check for S.
which was made payable to White, and
which was indorsed by him, and he after
ward found that the drawer of the check
had never had any account in the bank
on which it was drawn. This amount, it
|appears, however. was made good by
White
The other parties who testified as to
Whites having obtained money from
them and the amounts. are Sarah Jane
Remeson, 1880; NJ. r. Hansen, $3.50; A. L.
Johnson 81; T. B. Jones. IS, and Lawson,
ST. White, in his statement, claimed that
he did represent Messrs. r. ]. Davant &
Son, and claimed that he got the money
honestly II a had toA
so soon. he said. he could have secured
the insurance for these parties as he rep
resented. Messrs. Davant & Son, who
were on the witness stand, stated that
White had been to see them, and that they
told him he could see what sort of insur-
ance he could get. They stated, however,
that White had no authority to give in
surance to any one or to collect premiums.
Ii is stated that the mans name is not
White. as he claims, but that White is an
alias. He is believed by the court au-
-horties to be a regular insurance swind-
sr and the solicitor general so alleged It
b his argument to the court. Judge Mac
Donell said the case was an important one
md he would take it under consideration
'efore rendering his decision.
The other misdemeanOr cases disposed
f in the city court are as follows.
Tomas jefferson, concealed weapon. SIS
OF three months; John Smalls, simple lar
ceny twelve months; Robert Harmon,
simple larceny, $25 or six months; Walter
smlnns, simple larceny s. or one month;
Charles Dickson, simple larceny, six
months Mort Stevens, attempt to COM
nit a larceny, one month; Edward Nc
Williams, larceny from the person. six
months John Carter, larceny from the
house one month, and Frank Whiting,
concealed weapon, SIS or three months.