INSURANCE FRAUD
£15,000 SECURED. FRIEND RECOGNISES “CORPSE.” AFTER REVERENT BURIAL. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright, (Received Deo. 24, 8.30 a.m.) r LONDON, Deo. 23. Polioe inquiries at Lyons, which resulted in an arrest, disclosed an arduous but successful insurance fraud. The originator insured his life for £15,000, and took a huge dose of quinine, producing symptoms convincing his doctor that he had brain fever. Next day his mistress announced his demise," and secured a death certificate. The impostor carefully made up to represent a corpse, and lay in a pallid state the entire day amidst mourning friends and relatives, who left before the undertakers arrived. The swindler hid in a cupboard while the coffin containing sand was removed reverently and buried. The swindler and his mistress bought a farm on the proceeds of the insurance, and would have lived happily ever after had not a former friend recognised the “corpse.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18518, 24 December 1931, Page 7
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151INSURANCE FRAUD Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18518, 24 December 1931, Page 7
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