LONG MISSING LIFE POLICY RECOVERED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8385, 20 March 1907, Page 3

LONG MISSING LIFE POLICY RECOVERED.

LOCATED WHILE UNDER AN ANAESTHETIC. A remarkable incident \ has just been brought under the notice of the Gore Standard. It appears that 23 years ago, a New Plymouth resident put away for safekeeping a life insurance policy, issued by the Government Office, for £SOO, on the life of his father, who was then lying on his deathbed. The man hid the policy away, owing to' the .theft of about £2OO from his home, which was a public-house. The father died in the course of a few days, but when the policy was required, in- the course of the settlement of his affairs, it could not be found, the son having forgotten where he had secreted it. Years passed by, but the mystery •was not elucidated, and in the course of time the trustees carried the claim against the Insurance Department, to the law courts, and eventually to the Privy Council, but the defence was successfully . raised that the policy was* not lost,- and when it was Produced the claim would be paid, 'he sequel occurred in Gore last week, when the man who had hidden the policy visited a dentist for the purpose of, having several teeth extracted. An anaesthetic was administered, and under its influence, the patient's mind wandered to the question of the policy, and the whole of the details connected with the secretion of the document came back to his memory. He recollected cutting open the wallpaper in the passage of the hotel, and secreting the policy behind the scrim, and then pasting the paper over it again. No time was lost in despatching a telegram to a brother, asking him to make a search at the spot indicated in the vision, and in three or four hours a reply was received that the policy had been found just where the search was made, as directed;