NO EVIDENCE OF INSANITY
action to recover LIFE INSURANCE JUDGMENT RESERVED (Received July 3, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 2. Mr Justice Swift, summing up in the Rowlandson case, expressed the opinion that the deliberateness with which death was planned was not evidence of insanity. On the contrary, Rowlandson deliberately thought out the scheme. The jury returned a verdict that Rowlandson was sane. Mr Justice Swift, after hearing legal argument, reserved judgment. [Major Charles Rowlandson, aged 58, shot himself in a taxi a few moments before his life insurance policy would have lapsed through the premium not having been paid. His niece, Mrs de la Peer Beresford, on behalf of the creditors, brought an action in the King’s Bench Division against the Royal Insurance Company to recover £43,000, which the company had refused to pay.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21826, 4 July 1936, Page 16
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134NO EVIDENCE OF INSANITY Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21826, 4 July 1936, Page 16
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