GENERAL CABLES
MAGISTRATE DIES. (United Proas Association—By Electric Telegr &r>h—Copyright). (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) DELHI, April 8. Magistrate Peddie died this morning. Ten arrests have been made. OBITUARY. LONDON. April 8. Obituary—The millionaire Baronet, Sir Thomas Birkiti. lather of Captain H Birkitt. who succeeds to the title. REMARKABLE FRAUD. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) BUCHAREST, April 8. A remarkable new life insurance fraud, followed the finding of the merchant Rudolf Steinser, dying with his head battered on a railway embankment. He refused on bis death bed to disclose bis assailant, and suspicion wVis aroused. Though impecunious be had insured his life for twelve thousand sterling in favour of his wife. It was then discovered that the dead man had hired a young upholster. Fischel. to murder him for consideration of .a thousand sterling, but an address was given for the collection of tbe money, ami this proved that Fischel’s only toward was Steinser’s gold watch. Fischel was tracked to Vienna, where he confessed to the plot and was arrested,
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1931, Page 5
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