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Show FRAUD ON LIFE C0MPANIE8. Scheme Worked Successfully by a Girl Who Counterfeited Death. A fraud schema at tho oxpenso ot llfo lnsuranco companies wns carried out threo times successfully as long ngo as 1730. A young woman with nn oxtrnordlnnry powor of simulating doath had fir a confedorata an eldor ly man, who passed for hor undo. Twlco In different parts of England she Insured her llfo In her unclo's favor, fa-vor, went Into convulsions nnd to all appearances died. Tho third time the gamo wns played with nn Ingenious vnrlatlon. Tho undo went to a life lnsuranco company, oxplnlned that ho was In financial straits nnd wished to borrow money on his niece's catato. To compensate for such n loan ho would havo to Insuro hor llfo for Us value, hut could not afford to havo this Insurance becomo known, as It would cxposo his financial condition nnd ruin his credit. The company, therefore, agreed to wrlto tho Insur-anco Insur-anco undor n bond of secrecy. As usual, tho young womnn went Into convulsions nnd died. Iloforo her funeral sho lay In state for all the world to see. Her undo was prostrated. pros-trated. Ho did not try to collect tho lnsuranco lnsur-anco for somo months and when he did tho company paid him In full with expressions of real sympathy. So did nlno othor companies, which ho had silenced by tho same ruse, and ho Joined his nleco on tho continent with a vory Improsslvn fortune |