MOVABLE COLLAR-BONE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 530, 6 December 1928, Page 13

MOVABLE COLLAR-BONE

EX-OFFICER’S INSURANCE FRAUD How a former officer in the Royal Air Force lived for several years by deceiving insurance companies with a constantly recurring imaginary accident was described at the Mansion House Police Court, London, recently. The ex-officer, George Winter Williamson, alias George Winter Coultard, of St. Andrew's Road, Wiliesden, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment in the second division. He pleaded guilty to obtaining an accident policy of insurance by false pretences with intent to defraud the Royal Insurance Company, and with obtaining £162 by means of the policy. Mr. Percival Clarke, prosecuting, said Williamson appeared to/have an ununited collar-bone, probably congenital, and he had managed to make doctors believe he had a broken.-: collar-bone as the result of an accident. , . Since 1922 he had made 20 claims on various insurance companies, 19 of which had been paid, and in connection with which he had received sums amounting to £2,300. Mr. J. A. Davis, defending, remarked that, he could only say that Williamson had borne an excellent character before making thees claims. When he was an officer in the R.A.F. he was, for a tipie, in command of the Middlesbrough district. Falling on hard times, he conceived this plan and it answered only too easily.