The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-28
'ISAACS WRITES IN
Former Employee of White In
surance Co. Heard From.
Ready to Tell All He Knows
and Knows a Lot.
NOTHING CROOKED OR HIDDEN
Declares Business Has Been
Concluded on the Square.
Says His Location Has Been
Known All the Time.
NOTHING CROOKED OR HIDDEN

That he is willing to tell anything
he knows concerning the affairs of the
White insurance companies, now in
the hands of a receiver, is the asser-
ton of NJ. A. Isaacs. formerly of To-
peka. Isaacs declares he did not leave
which hung over the insurance COM
panies with which he is associated and
that the state insurance department
has at all times been in possession of
his address.
When details of the state investiga-
ton of the White insurance companies
became known, Isaacs's name was con-
nected with the probe. 1t was stated
the Isaacs left Topeka with the state
ment that he expected to go to New
York. Since leaving Topeka, he has
been in Oklahoma City. These facts,
Isaacs declares, should not connect
him with the insurance scandal.
Isaacs is reported to have been asso-
ciated with the Central National. To-
peka National Livestock and Topeka
Mutual Livestock insurance COM
panies. A receiver for these COM
panies was appointed this week the
result of a suit filed by the attorney
generals office.
Not a Stakeholder.
ct never owned and never sold any
shares of stock in the Topeka Nation
al Livestock Insurance companies"
declared Isaacs in a letter today from
Oklahoma City. 1T never left Topeka
hastily or in any other manner than
requested by my employers. I have
never been back to New York and
never intend to, so far L know at
present"
Isaacs declares that he is willing to
give testimony in the insurance probe
and will appear as a witness at any
place designated by the state insur-
ance department.
Personally" Isaacs declared. "at
any time and at any place 1 stand
ready to explain to the Insurance de-
partment every act of each of the
companies up to the date of my COM
ing to Oklahoma City,
Further, the former Topeka man
declares that nothing irregular has
been done in the handling of the
books of the companies with which he
states petition for a receiver and in
a statement by Carey J. Wilson, state
superintendent of insurance, that the
accounts of the companies under con-
troll of j. H. White are so muddled
that it is impossible to determine the
eXa ct condition of any of the con-
Germs To Isaacs. though, they are
perfectly clear For that reason, it is
quite proba BILE that he will be asked to
come to Topeka and tell about a num-
Der of entries, which now puzzle state
officials.
No Concealment.
NO COnceaI1nenI was mace from
anyone of my coming and remaining
in Oklahoma City" said Isaacs.
Every act of the officers of the in
surance companies mentioned, appears
in the records and books of the COM
panies. Nothing has been concealed
frC m the companies or the insurance
department.
Il have not improperly or wrong
fully, from a legal or moral stand
point, appropriated to my own use a
dollars worth of assets of either of
the insurance companies. The insur-
ance department has not called on me
to explain a single entry in the books
of either of the companies"
Following the filing of the suit
against the White insurance COM
panies, Clay Hamilton was appointed
receiver for the defendant companies.
Hamilton is a Topeka attorney and
was present Monday afternoon at a
conference attended by White. Su
perintendent Wilson and John Hunt,
assistant attorney general.