A BOGUS CORPSE
SWINDLERS SENTENCED
(Beceived 17th June, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, 16th June.
A Lyons message- states.. that Louis "DuTand has been sentenced to
five years' imprisonment. An accomplice, a young >voman, named Jeanne Piolat, -who was a beneficiary under the insurance, was sentenced to two years* imprisonment. '...
Last December the exhumation of a dummy corpse in : an Algiers cemetery took placsj to confirm the confession of Louis Durand of his share in an ingenious plot to defraud an insurance company. Durand -was arrested at Lyons, and told the police ' that he smeared his face with powder and feigned death for two days. When a death certificate was issued a dummy was substituted in the coffin in which Durand had lain. He followed the coffin to the cemetery, where a tombstone bearing his own name was ' erected. Dnrand was charged with defrauding an insuarnce company of £1000.. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 7
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171A BOGUS CORPSE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 7
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