MCCARTHY, John

News-Herald (Wickenburg AZ) Saturday, January 11, 1902, p 2 Suing For M'Carthy's Insurance Suits against various insurance companies, for approximately $25,000 filed in the district court, promises to uncover details of one of the most uniquely sensational insurance cases ever known. Early last June John McCarthy, a famous hunter and scientist, went with a party of friends for a long hunt in the Mogollon mountains. A few weeks later he left camp to hunt game and never returned. On August 19 a searcher found a body, supposed to be McCarthy's, in Miller's canyon, south of Flagstaff. The body had been horribly mutilated, presumably by bears, both legs broken, the hips dislocated, and the head almost severed from the body. The remains were brought here to the widow and claims put in for insurance. Before leaving here McCarthy had taken out a $10,000 policy in the Manhattan Company of New York, $5,000 accident in the Frankfort Company of Germany, $2,000 in the Workmen, $5,000 in the Forresters, and various amounts in the Fraternal Brotherhood of Los Angeles, the Woodmen and other fraternal organizations. After a long investigation payment was refused on all the policies, and as a consequence suit has been begun on behalf of the widow. The underwriters here who insured McCarthy declare that that an attempt has been made to victimize their companies, and even assert that the body found, which was supposed to be McCarthy's, was one of two stolen from a graveyard here about the time McCarthy left here. McCarthy was a territorial game and fish commissioner, a member of the masonic and many other orders, and for many years had contributed to the museums of Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Illinois and a score of other universities.--Republican.