AN AMERICAN TICHBORNE CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1317, 2 March 1883, Page 2

AN AMERICAN TICHBORNE CASE.

Tho St. Louis insurance; : ;c6n«% :;: tinues.to attract' attention in ■• West/v -The>:plaintiff; * > Wackerle, sues on'an insurance,pofioj':' ■'■'/■■: on the life of her husband. the New York iLife IJutwance ;Com^^y pany say the.manis not deady and they: •';■;■-;. produce a;man.^honi*they ; allege to be i the WiiUam The;;,. : ;, J cleafr andl p6ncise v aannerhvwhich.this man" anßwered r Sli already brought out by other witnesses jl : was, calculated-to inspire confidence in :■ his'honesty!j'-but when \ the^estioii/■;"■ was. : put,' to him by the'plaintifi's; '■ . counsel'lus to'^W'many d he had, he became confused and answered: "Ithink there wereseyen,or eight, all "dead now.! 1 !) TJpbiiVße'n'g' questioned furtherfit transpired that he did not, know the" date of birth, date of death, , : age aV , 'time!of ! 'de»th] fl MX' ! oy4ame of any, except ondof his children;although living , :^thj.(hiB 7 wifeti_all|jthe, time.,.. ■'" Neither couldl he an'Bwer v as v to v - where they, were born. He said his failure to answer'questions was''due'-to bad memory. The theory of the defence ' .seems, to. :man was Gharjes; WapKtfle, a brother of the. plaintiff's husband, and that he had been induced to assume his dead brother's name in order to get the pension .from the he Hadi'been drawing and that there is a conspiracy to defraud , the woman. /'-:'!' v '' v Vvv