PUSHED OFF A STEEPLE
INSURANCE MURDER AND ' FRAUDS
(Received 31st October, 2.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, 30th October. A diabolical murder was revealed when a slate contractor was sentenced to life imprisonment for pushing a workman from the steeple of aa Amsterdam church. The contractor insured the man for £5000, aud when tho workman fell on 29th March, 1929, he collected the money. A year passed before suspicion was aroused. Then ho was arrested, and is now convicted of thrusting the workman from the steeple, in order to collect the insurance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 14
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89PUSHED OFF A STEEPLE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 14
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