INGENIOUS SWINDLE
INSURANCE COMPANY VICTIMISED FRENCHMAN FEIGNS DEATH Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 23. (Received December 24, at 8.30 a.in.) Police inquiries at Lyons, which resulted in an arrest, disclosed an arduous but successful insurance fraud. The originator insured his life for £15,000. Ho took a huge dose of quinine, produc r ing symptoms that convinced the doctor that ho had brain fever. Next day his mistress announced his demise and secured a death certificate. The impostor, carefully made up to represent a corpse, lay in a pallid state for the entire day amidst mourning friends and relatives, who left before the undertakers arrived. The swindler hid in a cupboard while a coffin containing sand was removed and reverently buried. The swindler and his mistress bought a farm with the proceeds of the insurance, and would have lived happily ever after had not a former friend recognised the “ corpse.”—London ‘ Times ’ Gable.
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Evening Star, Issue 20984, 24 December 1931, Page 9
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151INGENIOUS SWINDLE Evening Star, Issue 20984, 24 December 1931, Page 9
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