GIRLS AID A £600,000 FRAUD
BOGUS- CLAIMS FOR ROAD ACCIDENTS NEW YORK, May 4. A great insurance swindle has been disclosed with the arrest of nine persons who are accused of obtaining £600,0011 from 20 insurance companies hv means of bogus claims for injuries in motor-car accidents. Three of the arrested persons are women—Doris Scliimmell, 20, Lilian Levine, 19, ami Miriam Friedman, 10. The police state that the gang operated by pretending that the girls were injured in road accidentes. They would be examined by insurance doctors a month afterwards, when, they alleged, their injuries were healed. Another member of the gang who operated a garage and repair shop testified that he had repaired the damaged motor cars. The police consider this to be one of the cleverest swindle schemes in recent years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 5
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