Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20
M'CARTY'S
 INSURANCE. Companies Refusing to Pay If Will Be Sued for Its Recovery. Total Amount of Insurance Carried By Deceased Aggregates Twenty-Five
 Thousand 60llsfs.

At the next session of the district court which will be held in Coconino county, the heirs of John McCarty, the hunter, who was found dead several months ago in the Mogollon mountains, will begin contest against the insurance companies for S25, 900 that is due bis wife, says the
 Phenix Democrat.
 The insurance companies have never paid a single dollar of the
 money due on the policies taken out
 by MeCarty before he was killed by bear, and his almost unrecognizable
 body found by a searching party
 several weeks later. ,r.r--,-r--
 Thomas Armstrong of rPhenix Is
 the attorney who will make the
 principal fight for the Is plaintiffs and
 he says that a guardian of the widow
 who has been appointed in Coconino
 county, will in short time file suits against six, insurance companies, in- cluding the Manhattan Life, Frank
 fort Accident, Workmen, Woodman,
 Foresters and Fraternal Brotherhood. d.
 Three out ofsethis list have at-
 tempted to compromise with the . widow of the deceased, o but on the
 advice of friends she has refused to l settle for less than the entire amount due her. The others have never done
 more than to refuse absolutely to pay
 the money on the ground that Me
 Carty is still alive. roos Zc e-.c
 Several have said that they can
 produce McCarty at any time" said
 the judge. ."I offered one of them
 $500 some time ago to do this, but . when made the offer he said that , he never claimed to. be able to pro } duce McCarty alive."'7 @ .a-
 Since the tragic death of her hus
 band, Mrs. McCarty has been con
 stantly shadowed by sleuths iem ployed by the insurance companies
 and every improvement made by he '' carefully watched in the hope tha she would attempt to communicate with her husband, whom they beliey'
 to be still in the land of the living. Il Shortly after McCarty's death th' ] ] vigit of Mrs McCarty's movement q was begun, and it extended te sucl 1 an extreme that her letters were -eyel Il opened. She has been watchet $ night and day and her private affair a made the subject of much interest t e these hawkshaws and detectiyes.b1s ; The closest watch was kept on Mir !; McCarty during the time she spen It in Tucson. While there she gay 'e birth to a child, and on that nigh Il one or more detectives spent tn P hours of darkness watching tn II house. U It was thought certain tha n McCarty. if alive, would call to SC l. his wife. Several times the sleuth T. peered in through the window. sdi a- Once during ali this watching th lc tables have been turned on the dete' ct tives. A sister of Mrs. McCarty ;lei n- Tucson to go to- Chicago. In som T. manner she was mistaken for th T. widow of the deceased hunter, an S. one of the detectives immediatel
 put on a pair of false whiskersan
 followed her all'the way 2 to Chieae 10 before finding out that she was nt s the right person. . a o' The cases have been filed by u a guardian of Mrs. McCarty, owing ,e the fact that she is not yet of az
 and the guardian was appointed Is order to hasten thelegal proceeding is They are to be filed in CoconiI as county, owing to almost all of u in witnesses residing there '1- -77