DEBTOR'S SUICIDE
INSURED FOR £50,000 COMMENT BY CORONER (Received August 8, 5.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 7 Major Charles Rowlandson, who was insured for £50,000, and was heavily indebted, had been allowed until «3 p.m. on August 3 to pay his overdue premiums. On his way homo in a taxi he asked the driver to remember the time, which was 2.58 p.m. Rowlandson, still in the cab, thereupon shot himself. At the inquest the coroner, in returning a verdict of suicide, said it was a cold-blooded method of defrauding the company. Deceased's only relative is a sister. Rowlandson's solicitor told a representative of the Daily Ex P ress > nSnn whether the sister receives the £oO,OUU insurance no doubt will be settled y the courts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21874, 9 August 1934, Page 11
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123DEBTOR'S SUICIDE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21874, 9 August 1934, Page 11
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