Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-07-30

Virginia insurance department has
set about TO Illustrate the efforts OF
Critchlow. who has been again in
sorting advertisements in certain Ne
gro papers OF the state. asking for
agents. Critchlow was stopped 10y the
department last winter after he had
swindled many Negroes in several
cities of Virginia, he said. The in
surance commissioners of Ohio wrote
the department in Virginia. de
nouncing Critchlow as a bold fake"
As result OF this comm, nication.
Colonel Button has made the state
ment that Critchlow Is a swindler
and declared that his concern had
no right to do business in that state.
He also warned agents 10 have moth
ing TO do with Critchlow. and that
they would thus stay out OF the
hands of the law. 10 will be recalled
that Critchlow was apprchendcd
about eighteen months ago and con
victed of using the mails fraudulent
ly. lie was sentenced by the late
Judge Thompson OF the United
States court at Cincinnati after one
OF the seyerest arraignments that had
ever been administered any one con
victed in his court During his in
generation CritchlOw repudiated his
wife, refusing To allow her 10 visit
him, and after his release married
his stenogranher. lie again resumed
his former tactics. rendering quite
AN elaborate banquet TO the mem
bers of the International Labor
union and other employees Suisse
quently he left Dayton and nothing
had been heard of him until his pres
ent escapade in Virginia Dayton
journal. May L. 1910"
What the editor of the Dayton Cit
izen seems 10 overlook and Critch-
low ignore. is the fact that Dayton
daily paper first published the expose
this year, and not last year, when
We wrote him in answer to his re-
quest for rates on advertising space
in The Gazette. Had we seen. last
year prior to the receipt Of Critch-
lows letter asking for rates. any
such publication as the above from
the PLANET and Journal. I'm any
reputable newspaper like either OF
the two mentioned, Critchlow would
never have received any reply from
us TO his communication until he had
disproved the charges. we have not
learned as vet that he has or can
do this. although he has written us
one threatening letter since May 2S
in which he made no effort TO dis
prove the same. The Citizen and
Critchlow are wasting time. If the
latter is innocent of the charges the
Dayton Journal has sent broadcast
throughout the country, why doesn't
he have that paper retract them and
state the facts? 1t is, however, a bad
sign. and a waste of time. we repeat,
10 attempt 10 bulldoze The Gazette
into admitting IL has any response
bility whatever in the matter and to
endeavor to make us say the Dayton
Journal charges are untrue. Until
Critchlow compels that paper 10
repudiate its public statement repub-
lished above, all who read IL now
after standing uncontradicted nearly
two months, and originally made in
Dayton (Critchlow's headquarters as
well as the home OF the JournaD,
we and all others are justified, legal
ly and morally. in not only believing
the charges, but also in spreading
the news they contain, for the pro-
lection OF our people, north and
south, particularly in the latter
where the greatest efforts in behalf
OF Critchlow's various schemes have
been made as far as we have been
able to learn. II Is perhaps meet that
the Dayton Citizen has stirred up
this matter again, as il enables us
to again call the attention OF the In
dianapolis Freeman, the Chicago
Chronicle. the Odd Fellows Journal,
the Denver (Col.) Statesman and one
or two other race publications that