INGENIOUS FRAUD
ON LIFE INSURANCE. THE “CORPSE” RECOGNISED. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 9.25 a.ml LONDON, December 23. Police inquiries at Lyons, which resulted in an arrest, disclosed an arduous but successful insurance fraud. The originator insured his life for fifteen thousand sterling and took.a huge dose of quinine producing symptoms convincing • the doctor that he had brain fever. Next day his mistress announced his demise, and secured a death certificate, The imposter carefully made up to represent a corpse, lay in a pallid state for an entire day, midst mourning friends and relatives who left- before the undertakers arrived. The swindler hid in a cupboard while the coffin, containing sand, was removed and reverently 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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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1931, Page 5
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149INGENIOUS FRAUD Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1931, Page 5
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