INSURANCE FRAUDS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1933, Page 5

INSURANCE FRAUDS

HIDEOUS CRIMES

IN FRANCE AND UNITED STATES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

PARIS, October 21,

A sensational trial is proceeding 3J Aix-en-Provence, where a series of changes .have -been alleged -against ‘Catherine and Rhilomeme Schmidt, ■two beautiful German sisters, who came to France before the war, and married two Frenchmen who mysteriously disappeared, and. against Georges Sau-’et, a sauce, middle-aged Italian born lawyer, of Greek parentage, who has -long been domiciled in France. It is alleged that they, with accomplices, defrauded insurance companies by taking policies oil the lives of people who have disappeared. The three principals, allegedly, disposed of t he bodies of two °f their victims by dissolving them iD a bath of sulphuric kioid. The case was adjourned.

FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH

EFFORT TO DISPOSE OF VICTIM

NFAV YORK, October 20.

Four men were sentenced to death here for the murder of Michael “Durable” Malloy. He- was a derelict, whom they destroyed in order to collect 1788 dollars of life insurance which they had placed upon him. Malloy’s sobriquet- of “Durable” panne from the multiciplicity of the way in which tho if our tried to kill him before they finally were successful. One of the murderers was the operator of a “speakeasy.” He kept ■the victim . constantly intoxicated while he fed him with wood alcohol, poisoned oysters and spoiled sardines, mixed with chopped tin. They left him exposed in bitter, weather, and also ran him down in a taxicab, and finally, in desperation, they asphyxiated him with icooking gas.