SWINDLER STAGES DEATH
TWO DAYS IN COFFIN. Two days were spent in a coffin b> Louis Durand, a Frenchman, arrested in Lyons on charges of defrauding an insurance company of 150,000 francs (£I2OO at par). According to the police, Durand confessed that he feigned death and had a dummy buried, to obtain insurance money through a policy drawn in favour of a woman friend. He smeared his face with powder and managed by a trick to obtain a death certificate. Then he lay in the coffin for two days. While the undertaker was out of the room he got out and substituted a dummy filled with sawdust and sand.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3443, 15 March 1932, Page 3
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109SWINDLER STAGES DEATH King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3443, 15 March 1932, Page 3
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