The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-19
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BY EDWARD l.. CONN.
Newton, y. G., April 16.-N. h.
Everhart. postmaster of Newton. who
has put himself on the public rec
ordS Of Gaia b county as a slanderer,
faces a serious charge preferred
against him b. Insurance Commits
sioner J. r.. Young. and the scandal
has created considerable comment
since it leaked out q few days ago.
Rumors became current when the
agent and examining physician of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany. r. J.. Mize, and DR.. H. l.. Aber-
nethy, OF Hickory, were discharged,
close upon the heels OF an examina-
ton by the company's inspector, Fl.
NJ. Lilly. The charge in essence Is
that EVerhart, who was the insurance
cOmpany's examining physician at
Newton, knowing his wife to be at
nicted with a fatal malady, through
professional courtesy" induced DR..
A~bernethy to duplicate two applica-
tionS for insurance for his wife which
Or. Everhart himself had originally
Hlied IN, stating that his wife was
vigorous and in good health, one of
the applications being sent to DR..
Abernethy the very day before the
death of Mrs. EVerhart. leaving for the
nome office the day that Mrs. Ever
hart died. The first claim was paid
by the company, but it learned of
the death Of Mrs. Everhart before the
second policy had been accepted. The
cell -
ing in the class Of industrial insur-
ance. DR.. J. r. Campbell, who filled
out the death certificate for DR.. Ever
hart, stated that the latter stated to
him, 1t IS a small policy. and / in
tende to take out a larger one. but
her condition was such that She could
not stand the examination" Dr..
Campbell was DR.. EVerhart's consult
ing physician.
EVerhart claims that he is innocent
but admits the proceeding was cir
regular and attempts to shift the
guilt to the agent and his brother ex-
aiming physician, declaring, how
ever. that he would not have done
what DR.. Abernethy did for him had
he been in DR.. Abernethy's place. He
was c~ontradicted in q vital point by
the agent, having stated that he old
Mize he might carry the application
TO DR.. Campbell in Newton. Mize
says EVerhartS statement is untrue,
that he was directed by Everhart to
carry it to DIR. A~bernethy at Hickory.
fGVerhart said hat he was solicited
for both policies, but Mize asserted
emphatically that Everhart himself
the second policy, and that
it was not solicited, the agent being
at the pOstoffice to collect payments
due on the first policy, EverhsN
prepared the papers on Wednesday.
March > his wife 6Vino tha fnllnu-
ing Sunday. DR.. Everhart stated that
he had been informed by DR.. M. D.
HOgue. q specialist of Richmond,
through DR.. Henry +. Long, Of States
Vile. at whose hospital Mrs. Ever
hart had been a patient, hat his wife's
trouble had a bad tendency to be-
come sarcoma or carcinoma, cancer
Gus diseases.
The agent Mize and DR.. Abernethy
state and DR.. Everhart admits it's cor
rectness, tina shortly before Mrs.
Everharts death the physician-post-
master, had the assistant general SUI
perintendent, II. W. Eckhart, of New
Orleans, who was here at the time Of
Mrs. EVerhart'S death, to write to
the home office for rates on a Joint
policy for his wife and himself. The
agent says Everhart would not ia k
out a policy for himself alone.
E~verhart has been at Newton about
six years, having come here from
Davidson county. He has been Dost-
master a little over two years. In
the spring of 1908 he was married
to Miss Rebecka Warlick, of Newton.
whose family is one of the most highly
esteemed and respected in the county
1t was said that at time of her mar
riage Mrs. Eyerhart was weak. and
that her health became continually
worse after the birth Of a child in