INSURED AND IN DEBT
PECULIAR SUICIDE
CORONER'S COMMENT
LONDON, August 8.
Insured for £50,000 and heavily, indebted, Major Charles Rowlandson was allowed until 3 p.uu on August 8 to pay overdue premiums.
On his way home he asked the taxidriver to remember the time, which was 2.58 p.m. Rowlandson thereupon shot himself in tho taxi.
The Coroner, returning a verdict of suicide, said that it was a cold-blooded method of defrauding the company. His only relative is a sister. Rowlandson's solicitor told tho "Daily Express" that the question whether tho sister would receive the £50,000 would doubtless bo settled in the courts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13
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102INSURED AND IN DEBT Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 13
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