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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2661, 26 May 1908, Page 2

A very ingenious series of frauds were worked in London a few years ago. A number of small tires occurred in various districts ami in each case a room full of charred, lireblackened furniture was shown. At last, by mere chance, an insurance adjuster, being called in to assess the extent of the damage, recognised the half-burnt chairs and tables as the very same upon which he had passed judgement in another house only live (lavs previously ! It came out that the gang had a stock of charred furniture which they loaned one to another for the special purpose of defrauding the companies.