DEATH SHAM.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1924, Page 4

DEATH SHAM.

NEW YORK. Dec. 3. The arri-si at Napa. California, of ‘■Mi- ;md M: Kingston." who were loitriug the ft Vs I in an expensive inn-ior-ctir. lias disclosed an extraordinary romance of love and "jini". After a searching cross-examination lb" ooin rorii’cs-,'d i hat be ‘n reality is Edwaj'i! d. Sailsti'd, a riel) "Wisconsin im-.tnl;a turcr. wii > i.-. sup-posed to have died three years ago when his home was d" ;: .oil by lire. The woman admitted that she v.-.is liis former soorolurv. Dorothy Andersoii. Tl'.'ir overnov.-rmg love f one another. they said, made ii imperative that ' should live together. Mr i-'alisted had a ;\o!iitg wife and three children. Me d. w-id.-d that the only f"as!9'" oe- ins „f leaving them was to have them believe that lie was dead. During a temporary absence of the fuii.iTt fr mi home, be aod Miss Andt-r----•ep. loir;.titer exhumed (l.e body of Allen McKee from a churchy.-ml at Fan Claire, Wisconsin. Tln-y cirriod the body on n mattress in the middle of Mm oi.glil 1,, Mr fsailsted’s residence, and sat fire to the house, t r was burned lo the ground and the ashes of "McKee's corpse discovered beside the remains of a bed. were regarded by AiTs Sails ted and the authorities as proof that her husband had been burned to death. A year ago Mrs Railslcd remarried. IXSV RANT E SCSI >l(9 ON.

The insurance company from whom she. In good faith, sought to collect her first husband's life policy of £12.Ofn were dissatisfied. They resisted pavilion 1 ., declaring that Mr Sailsted’s rDath bad net been established. A federal jury held that Mr Sailded died ii! th" fire and ordered the company io pav. An appeal was carried to the .iriiiit court of Chicago, which last month heard the arguments and reserved its decision. Meanwhile the insurance company conducted a wide search which ended in vesterday's melodramatic arrest. Tin? grave of Mcl'ce, examined to-day was found empty.