INSURANCE SWINDLE.
TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN LIFE ALLEGED. (Sun Special.) NEW IORK, Wednesday. Allegations of trafficking in human life have been made, following the arrest of Max-Chiller, three other men and four women, after investigations by the District-Attorney into a series of remarkable insurance swindles. It is said that the gang took ont policies on old men and furnished young men in their places for medical examinations. The old men mysteriously died. Six exhumations have been ordered. £20,000, which was paid by insurance companies to members of the gang, has been impounded in the meanwhile.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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94INSURANCE SWINDLE. Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 December 1929, Page 8
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