| Show RESCUING A POLICY A kufs insurance man saves a snuff butle sam for his company the swindling of lifo insurance companies by conspirators is an old story an officer in one of the big Broadway companies said to a now york corre correi i spon dent but the way we sometimes geff even with them and defeat their purposes is not so well known A local agent and the consulting physician of tho town may conspire with the tors of a rich mans will and with the rich man himself to report him to the yew york company as sound and health sober and industrious with the understanding that each is to get a slice of the companas comp anys money after death even if the company coarns after death that the application was founded on lies the money is often paid unless tho amount is very large rather than earn the reputation of contesting policies in the courts the president of the company told me one morning a fortnight ago to take my grip and start for a largo town in illinois and learn whether it was true as ho had learned from an unknown correspondent that a man who had recently obtained a policy for was very dissipated in that case I 1 was to get tho policy and bring it back to bo cancelled if possible there was the rub to get the policy it required considerable tact any way and if the man should refuse to give it up it would cost the insurance company a good deal of money to contest it after his death I 1 went to the town knowing only ahe namo of the man and eliat be as worth of course every one I 1 mot spotted me for a stranger and sidled up to me to know what 1 was in town for it would not do to let it go abroad that was a lifo insurance agent and especially if I 1 should begin to inquire about our risk S 0 1 said I 1 was interested in getting money on western mortgages it was not difficult after that to make my our policy holder s house ort tho pica of getting him to invest in mortgages lie was in bed drunk andai I 1 afterward learned was drunk all tho time but ho had a good had for business even when in liis cups welly ho said inquiringly I 1 told him flatly I 1 had como 0 o ike tike t away bis policy lie kicked he kicked long and hard v bilo I 1 argued on moral grounds of tho of his act and h finally put out his hand and said started from his eves im to meet aar honest man call my wife in ills wife came in and at his direction brought in a tin box put it on a chair at tho bedside and ent out the insurance policies arc in there somo tak ho said I 1 opened the box and took out in govern ban asand then tho insurance policy of releasing the company from ill obligation being accod li sLed 1 met tho mans wife at th door aaa bic wanted to know my busi cas I 1 auld her jim glad of it she I remonstrated at tho time th policy was obtained but without avail tho physician and tho local agent oath company are bound to hae the money my husband will die in a few months without doubt he is a confirmed drunkard 1 |
