IMPUDENT FRAUD

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9970, 8 January 1929, Page 3

IMPUDENT FRAUD

LIVED OX ACCIDENTS. A man who was alleged to have lived on imaginary accidents since 15)22, and to have made £2300 out of claims on insurance companies, was recently sen. lenced at Mansion House to 12 months’ imprisonment in the second division. George Winter Williamson, aged 48. pleaded guilty to obtaining £162 and an accident insurance policy by fraud from the Royal * Insurance Company. The prosecution Jeg ribed the fraud as most impudent. Williamson had victimised at least 20 companies. He had a congenital infirmity of the collarbone which imposed on doctors and others, and enabled him to stimulate an accident with some ease. In taking out the policy with the Royal hisur. ancc ComjKiny he said he had no physical infirmity, had good eyesight, and had never had an accident policy or made an accident claim before. All these statements were untrue. Directly the policy was issued he hud an imaginary accident at Trombly, alnd reco\. ered £162.