TO GET EVEN
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY SURPRISE FOR INSURANCE COMPANY (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 22m] December. The “Daily Express’’ Vienna correspondent vouches for an extraordinary story concerning Michael Detenyi, of Buda Pest, who got himself hanged in order to get even with an insurance company which insured his life for £SOOO for death from “natural causes,” and for £IO,OOO for “death'from other than natural causes.” Wanting £2,500 urgently, Detenyi offered to renounce all further claims, otherwise he would commit suicide. The company, thinking he was bluffing, refused to nay. A few days later Detenyi killed his best friend, was tried for murder, and hanged. His heirs, claiming that hanging was not a natural death, successfully sued the insurance company for £IO,OOO.
The climax came when it was found that the murdered man was simila.'ly insured for £20,000 if “death was due to other than natural causes.” The Judge agreed that murder was not natural, so the heirs of the murdered man receive £20,000, completing Detenyi’s promise to inflict an “unpleasant and expensive surprise upon the company.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 7
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178TO GET EVEN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 7
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