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THE INSURANCE TRIAL
JUDGE GRAHAM PRONOUNCKS
SENTENCE ON THOSE
CONVICTED
AND THE COURT HAS ADJOURNED
The Judge Declares it the Most Stup
endous Crime That Has i: ver Keen
Committed in North Carolina and
Regrets That he Cannot Mete Out
Heavier Punishment-- \ ppeals Taken
and the Defendants Allowed to Give
Bond Until the Matter Is Decided.
TRENTON, N. Dee. 20. -(Special)
- The trial of the insurance conspir
acy cases here have been brought to a
close.
There were three eases before the
court the last day - State against C. K.
ilassell, Albert Wig-fall, Silas Blount,
David Parker and T. B. Delamar, con
spiracv; State vs. J. C. Delamar and S.
J). Delamar, forgery, and State vs.
iierv. The last ease was continued on
Levi T. Noe and David Parker, for
account of the necessary absence of
Maria Hamilton, the principal witness.
This old woman went home Monday.
A deputy sheriff was sent for her. lie
did not bring her back because he
found upon reaching Beaufort her fee
ble old husband had just died, llis
life had been insured by the parties
just convicted.
News comes from Beaufort that
Shop Davis, the aged negro—SO odd
years —who was insured by the gang
as 56 years of age, is dying. These
two lives would in all probability have
brought in to some one in Beaufort
SIO,OOO but for the recent investiga
tions.
The ease for conspiracy was taken
up first to-day. All the testimony in
troduced was of the most damaging
character to the defendants. Four
letters from Hassell were introduced.
They show the character of the man in
the' darkest hues. The defendants
offered no testimony. There were no
speeches by counsel. By agreement
.Judge Graham, in his charge to the
jury omitted the reading of the testi
mony as taken down by him. The
jury returned in a few minutes —the
verdict guilty.
The next case called was State vs.
Selden I). Delamar and J. C. Delamar,
for forgery. The charge was that of
forging the name of Ella G. ltountree
to an application for insurance in the
Life Insurance Clearing Company, of
St. Paul. There were policies on her
life to the amount of $17,000. She was
shown to be a consumptive, of which
she died within i few months after
the policies were issued. The applica
tion represented her to be in perfect
health. The prosecution, being una
ble to show in whose handwriting the
name was signed, or to show that it
was unauthorized, announced that it
would not contend for a verdict, and
suggested that a verdict of not guilty
be entered, which was accordingly
done.
Then all the defendants w ere brought
into court. In pronouncing judgment
upon the conspirators, Judge Graham
said:
“If the fjvidence in these eases be
true, the most stupendous crijne ever
committed in North Carolina has been
unearthed. I suppose there is nobody
that hail any conception of the degree
tp which this rascality had gone, i
can see how people could Vx* drawn
into this nefarious business of procur
ing or buying these policies upon these
dying people and people who were
likely to die, but few could be innocent.
In order to procure these policies, for
gery, false pretences and conspiracy
were all committed. There has never
been, within my knowledge, in the
criminal annals of our whole country,
* a more gigantic conspiracy than this.
Here we have the greatest crimes
known except ia|>c, murder, arson and
burglary.lt seems to have been goingon
for years, and it has drawn in a great
many unsuspecting people, and these,
in order to make money, either by the
commissions or out of the policies,
have committed these crimes. There
has lieen enough forgery proven against
I)r. T. B. Delamar to send him to the
penitentiary for one hundred and fifty
years, if all the cases for forgery were
prosecuted against him, and the ex
treme punishment inflicted on him in
each case.
“I regret circumstances are such
that these men have not ail been con
victed of crimes for which 1 could im
pose punishment adequate to the of
fences proven, many eases of forgery
and false pretense being proven
though not charged. But the crime of
conspiracy is a misdemeanor and pun
ishable only by imprisonment in jail
and a fine. The crimes of false pre
tences and forgery are both felonies
and can be punished by imprisonment
in the penitentiary, and though 1 re
gret the same punishment cannot be
meted out to all the defendants alike
in these eases, still when this conspir
acy is provt n. when false pretences are
proven, w hen forgery is proven to have
Ih-cii committed, then I must discharge
my duty in each one of the cases, un
der the laws of North Carolina as 1
find it laid down in our statute books.
“It has been proven that these men,
Levi T. Noe, J. < . Delamar and Selden
D. Delamar were agents doing this
fraudulent business; that Dr. T. B.
Delamar was their medical examiner;
that David Barker and William Fisher
were their henchmen ami went out and
got the names of those people who
were in the last stages of disease, as
Barker said, “would die soon," in or
der, as one of the witnesses said, “they
might make a little quick money.*’
"In the ease of ( . !!. Hassell, if t lie
evidence is to be believed, he is the
arch conspirator of the whole lot. lie
seems to have been engaged in this
business for years, and his success for
;i time seems to have induced others
to go into it. Then Noe took it up and
after pursuing it for n year he lakes
the Delatnars in with him. They are
all induced by the success with which
he has met 1o engage iu thm disrepu
table busines.
“Timi, Bill Fisher comes in and
formal the name of Florence Chadwick
; : d others, and David Barker also up
jtears as an agent and one of the con
spirators. Their particular conicu
aev was to defraud in problbly L
cases bv the use of the names ci a
large number of people who were In
the last stages of disease, many of
whom were produced before the jury
by the State. So without going into
the derails 1 repeat this is the most
stupendous crime that has been com
mitted in our State within my knovvl
f*< I ,r O.
“As much as I sympathize w ith the
families of these defendants in the
misfortunes that have overtaken them,
as much as I regret the disgrace that
will have to attach to them the bal
ance of their days, and as hard as it. is
for me to pronounce sentences in
cases of this kind —for this is the hard
est, part of a Judge’s life, l am bound
to do my duty. The judgment of
the court is that C. R. Hassell
be confined in the. State penitentiary
at hard labor seven years; that Bill
Fisher be confined in the penitentiary
at hard labor five years; that Selden D.
Delamar, T. B. Delamar, J. C. Delamar
and Levi T. Noe be confined in the com
mon jail of Craven county for a term of
two years, and pay a fine of three hun
dred dollars each, that being the limit
of imprisonment allowed by law."
An appeal having been taken,Hassell
will give a justified bond in the sum of
$1,500 for his compliance with the
judgment of this court if affirmed by
the Supreme Court.
The rest of the defendants yill give
bond in the sum of SI,OOO each.
The learned and upright judge who
has presided for nine days at these
trials, is commended on all sides for
his impartiality and fairness. Even
two of the defendants, C. R. Hassell
and J. C. Delamar, having been heard
to express this sentiment.
At no time during the trials did
either of the defendants offer to go
upon the witness stand to testify in
his own behalf.
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