The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-18

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1t was returned not a true bill
Mr.. Dill testified to-day that the
medical examination in the Wigfall ap-
plication, upon which $4,000 was col
lected from the Bay State Company, as
reported in Sundays News and Obser-
yer, was, in his opinion, signed by his
brother-in-law, Edward Thomas.
At this point the application for in
sTanee upon the lives of the several
subjects, as brought out in this case,
were read to the jury. According to
the applications, healthier and
younger lot of applicants were never
examined by a doctor for life insur-
ance.
Maria Hamilton, the next witness
called, testified as follows Il live in
Beaufort. | DO not know how old /
am. ! did not sign an application for
insurance on my life. tShe was in
sured in two companies for S5,o00.)
did not know anything about it, My
husband told me Mr.. John Stanley had
me insured. They did not consult me
and | knew nothing about it. l did
not sign any paper to have my life in
sured ] have first one complaint and
then another-dysintery nervous at
tacks and palsy. | have not had this
palsy a great while. Last year it was
not SO bad Off ! was palsied last sum
mer | cannot tell how long have been
i'm bad health ! was a healthy woman
| guess about the time of the war,
when my health began to fail and has
been so off and ON ever since. l have
had some trouble in my head all along
since the war. / have never had
child. am a married woman and my
husband is living. He has not been
able to come to court. He cannot walk.
He is not in his right mind | was never
examined bv DR.. Delamar for a life in
surance policy
do YOU know whether DR.. Delamar
knew what your condition of health
was for these past years"
Il do not know. / know him. lie
gave me medicine sometime for my
complaints
did YOU ever consult him as a doc
tor?"
"Yes, sir; | went to his shop to get
medicine.
II was not at the Morehead City
trial. | was sick. No one came to me
to sign a paper after these trials. do
not know whether they went to my
husband. William Fisher came TO my
husband. Nobody came with him.
They did not sign any papers. Mr..
FELTON, came. He came with Mr.. Hen
ry-AIr Johnnie Henry. They wanted
me to sign Il paper TO get some money.
That was what Henry told me. | sign
ed the papers. Mr.. Johnnie Henry
told me to sign TO get some money. He
said it would come in his care. He
would see that il came. He did not say
what company it was. did not get
cent of the money. | do not know
whether the paper was sent off to the
company or kept"
On cross-eXamination she said My
husband told me John Stanley and he
had my life insured. His name is Jim
Hamilton. My husband has been so
he could not walk sometime. In the
spring he could hobble about the yard.
/ cannot tell how long he has been so
he could not get out of the yard. 1t
has been as long as three months. He
was able TO walk TO the courthouse
last OctOlAE court
The paper was read. 1t was AN affi-
davit signed before c. Il. FELTON,, nota-
Nv public. and stated that James Ham
ilton and Maria Hamilton applied on
March 18th, 1894, TO G. II. Hassell and
Noe. Delamar d Co. for life insurance
in the Mutual Life association, and
that they were both examined by DIR.
#. b. Delamar. Of Beaufort. The atfi-
davit was dated August 2sth, 1895.
The witness continued: This is the
way FELTON, read it TO me. This is the
paper | signed. | cannot read or write.
FELTON, was there and John r. Henry
was there, and my husband and my
self. / did not know anything about
the paper 1t was after the trial at
Morehead City"
Don't you know your husband
signed it and made your mark to it?'
Yes, sir; he did"
'.Didn't YOU swear at the trial in
Beaufort that YOU didn't sign it or
make your mark to it?"
Il don't know sir. l don't know
when the first insurance on my life
was. | don't know that David Parker
had me insured in 1892. He never told
me about it. l signed no application.
Never was examined. Never went to
his son to make application. This IS
the first time / ever heard about it"
Parker testified Saturday that he
and the firm of Noe, Delamar d Co.,
would hawk these policies about the
streets Of Beaufort and sell them like
they would barrel of pork.
Palmer Davis corroborated the other
witnesses as to Perry Chadwick. Perry
was pauper and had had two hem
orrhages in witnesses boat.
Mr.. Rippey, the travelling inspector
of the Bay State Beneficiary Associa
tion, was the last witness to testify in
the case. His testimony in this case,
as it has been in the others, was in re-
gard to the knowledge he had of the
several companies and their officers
and that they held themselves out as
doing n legitimate insurance business.
The State here closed and the defen-
dants offered no evidence.
This case, like the last, was submit
ted to the jury upon the charge of the
judge. The jury were out but few
minutes when they returned verdict
of guilty, as to all of the defendants
who were Immediately placed under
bond in the sum of 1000 each, which
they promptly gave.
This makes seven convictions and