The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-05-03
THE PECULIAR CASE
OF GEORGE EIMMEL
New Development In StTangeSi
Insurance Case In History
Of The Courts

81 Louis, May S--Another devcl
opment IN the strangest insurance
case IN the history Of the courts was
revealed. when attorneys Tor ihe New
York Life Insurance company liled In
the United States court In 81. Louis
the deposition Of convict In the Au.
burn. N Y state prison, The con.
vic tAndrew J. White. declares he II
George O. Kimmel cashier OF the
Farmers State bank of Arkansas City
Kansas, who disappeared more than
ten years ago.
The witness graphically tells a
story Of beng drugged in Kansas City
aud Imprisoned IN on Olive street
rooming house IN 81 Louis for three
weeks.
The convlct's story 10 denied BY
Kimmel's relatiyen who are suing for
insurance on his life.
kimmel has already been declared
dead by the st, Louis court but the
United States circuit court OF appeals
has declared the evidence insufficient
ana the Judgment against the insur.
ance company was reversed. The case
Ia to be tried anew IN 81 Louis.
History Of Case
Shortly after insurlhg hla lie for
$4,000 IN 1898. IN favor OF his sister
Miss Edna X. Bonslett, Kimme dis.
appeared from Arkansas City Detec.
iives followed him to Topeka and
Kansas City, but no further trace OF
him was found until White. an In,
mate of New York aaylum for the
criminal insane. three years ago de.
clared himself to be Klmmel. He
was later pronounced sane and trans
ferred 10 Auburn
KimmeIs deposition consists OF ZOO
lypewritten pages, throughout which
he endeavors 10 identify himself AZ
Kimmel, His explanation oi his dis
appearance is that q relative was i'm.
plicaled In the embegzlemeut OF 500.
000 from the Pacific Express com
pany and that he had damaging evil.
denee against him He declares The
relative and others causod him 10 be
drugged aud kept prisoner In 81
Louis
Relative Got Him
Rimmel tells Of leaving Arkansas
City July 20, 1898. and going 10 To.
peka, Kansas. 10 dispose Of some
county bonds, Trnnsaotlng that bus.
lnesa be went to The Midland hotel
in Kansas City. There he said he re-.
celvad message from the relative
asking him to meet him. The mes.
sage WAS delivered By q man named
Hartman. whom Klmmel had met sew.
eral months before IN Kansas City
klmmal entered a cab with Hart
man A cigar which Hartman gave
him made him dizzy and when they
entered room after O short cab
ride he found hls relative and sew.
eral other persons present lie drank
glass Of liquor, lost c0nacionsness
and awoie IN Il strange room which
he afterwards learned was IN St.
Louis. near Sixteenth and Olive street
He van Kept there Under llartmans
guard for three weeks aud when he
escaped was beaten On the street 81
the relative and the iattera friends.
Klmmel says that he awakened
from the second encounter IN hos.
pltal, remained there several months
end left st. Louis IN The spring OF
1893. goIns to Cincinnati end Phlla'
deIphla
Nature Of Suit
The suit IN which the deposition
wes taken was that Of the receiver OF
the First National bank oi Niles,
Mich. against the New York Lite
Insufancs company. Mrs. B0neleti
had assigned the insurance policies
10 the receiver of the bank
While the convict White. declares
he Is Klmmel. Kimmeis sister, MFs
Bonslett. inBists the man IL not her
brother. The attorneys for the IN
snrance company tNntend White y
Klmmel and that on atiempl was be-
lng made TO deiraud the insurance
company
The deposition will play most i'm
p0rlant part In the case, aH IN It ev'
ery detail OF klmmel's life from the
time he was hos IN Niles, Mich.
until his disappearance from Arkan'
sas city was gone nto. The man was
required 10 give the name Of the 0id
swimming hole and The name Of The
pnnd where be skaIed when o hoy.
He was required 10 tell niosi minute
details OF bis relations socially and In
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