INSURANCE MURDERS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 4252, 26 June 1895, Page 4

INSURANCE MURDERS.

Public attention has for the past few weeks been directed to several cases of this olass. In one in the western portion of the province the deceased was found under a fallen treo, it being claimed that death waß due to the blow received from the falling tree ; there had recently been over £6000 of insurance placed upon the victim's life. As a result of the inquest two persona were committed, charged with the murder, both being found guilty at the assize and sentenced to be handed, since which one has confessed that they first killed their victim with an axe, placing subsequently the body under the fallen tree. The second case is more complicated, owing to the deed with which two are charged having taken place nearly three years ago in Toronto. A young man upon whose life there was a large insurance was Buppoaed to have been accidentally killed by the weight (2001 b) of a hoist having fallen and crushed his skull. Suspicion was not aroused until insurance was sought for — some £60,000— upon his sister's life, who in the meantime had married one of two brothers in whose warehouse theauppoaed accident happened. The body had been exhumed, and the evidence of the medical experts at the preliminary investigation is alleged to show that the injuries to the skull were not caused by the hoist weight. The two brothers are now awaiting trial on a charge of murder. — Home paper.