Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-01-28
CONSPIRACY INVOLVES
POLICIES OF 100000
Companies Claim the Operation is Co.
ing on In Several Different States
One Body Exhumed 20 Offer as Evil
denee-seheme Worked is Said to
be an Old One.
CBy Associated Press,

CBy Associated Press.)
LOUISVILLE. KY. Jan. 27.--what
attorneys employed by dozen or
more LIE insurance companies to con-
duct criminal prosecutions say is o
scheme to defraud Insurance COM
panies through the formation of an
alleged conspiracy Is to be made the
subject of an investigation In Lou s.
vile. New Albany, Ind. and other
points.
Covering one point In the alleged
conspiracy warrants were sworn out
today by ii, c. Renick, secretary anu
treasurer of the indiana National
Life Insurance Company. Indianapolis,
for the arrest of John Kean and =.
F. O'Leary, insurance solicitors OF
Louisville, on charges OF conspiracy
to defraud by insrring dying persons,
through Misrepresentation.
II Is said that the affair involves
in one way or another more than
fifty persons and relate to fsaudU-
lently obtained life insurance policies
to the value OF $iO0,00e.
II is also said that many persons
are involved in the affair. One ply.
sic,an has. IL Is said. admitted that ne
acted as a participant In conspiracy
by filling out medical certificates
asserting that men and women he had
never seen were IN good health and
constituted good insurance risks.
In many cases, however, 1t is be-
Iieyed. the physicians were imposed
upon.
In the affidavit Renick charges that
the defendants in the employment or
the Indiana National LILO Insurance
Company and various other Insurance
companies: among Others. the hide
pendent Life Insurance Company, OF
Indianapolis; the Commonwealth Life
Insurance Company. of Kentucky: the
Standard Life Insurance Company. or
Des Mcines. Ia, have been guilty OF
the crime OF corspiring TO defraaad
the said insurance companies and the
public generally by conspiracy be-
tween themselves and certain persons
In this city and in New Albany. Ind
Il believe this Investigation now
under way will uneaTth one of the
biggest insurance swindles ever ex-
posed eaid State Insurance Commits
sicner Bell. as he took up the case
Of Walter f. Rider. a teamster. who
died January 4. and whose body was
exhumed yesterday by the coroner al
the request of certain insurance COM
ranies. The death certificate md
Gated that Rider died OF Intestinal
trouble. but IL ! reported that the
autopsy. which began today. showed
! large portion OF the lung eaten away.
supposedly by tuberculosis
The case was taken Up upon the re-
quest OF life insurance companies or
Indiana and Tennessee. who are said
to BE- large losers by reasons Of
grave yard" swindies These COM
panics. which II ~ alleged. have paid
$40. 600 On policies issued In the z DER
case. are excluded from business IN
this state. yet It Is said have carried
c- a large business in Kentucky
through an agency at New Albany,
ind. across the river from Louis
vile.
/ Scheme an Old One
The. scheme worked on the CON-
psnics. = TO certain extent. an old
| onc-tbc company issuing ;hc policy
10 men c.Ttualiy in the shadow Of the
| grave after having examined n man
Of athletic build. who was REPRESENTED
as the applicant.
Rider. - Is learned. carried policies
On his life sEzre1ating sis.@ces frt
none ~ his relatives is named IS
beneficiary. Mrs Mary Dun. q sis
ter. and l. Wis Rider. q brother. mace
ardaviis several days ago that they
believed their brother came 70 his
death by voison.rz and that be Vas
a victim % foul play. The fariiiy
/ communicated with = llfc insurance
company In Tennessee ard the matter
vas iakcn 10 N Louisville ycsferiay
b. = representative II The COMPANY
| on these representations Acting
coroacs Dacher ord rcd tie bo-.y Of
humcd. Ancr discovering the lesion
in ihe iunc. The .fomacf vas removed
and turned over o. shs1nisis To- anaif-
s.. 4.