Show FRAUD ON LIFE COMPANIES scheme worked successfully by a girl who counterfeited death A fraud scheme at the expense ot at life te insurance companies was carried carr leil out three times successfully as long a aco go as 1730 A young woman with an 0 extraordinary power ot of simulating death had for a confederate an elder ly IY man who passed f or 0 r her ber uncle twice in different parts part s of england she bho insured her life in her uncles favor went into convulsions and to all appearances died the third time the game was played with an ingenious variation the uncle went to a lif life e insurance company explained that he be wits was in financial straits and wished to borrow money on his nieces estate to compensate tor for such buch a loan be would w 0 uld have to insure her life tor for Us its value but call could I 1 d not afford to have this insurance become known as it would expose his financial r and ruin his credit the company therefore agreed to write the insurance a under a bond of secrecy As usual the young woman went into convulsions and died before her funeral she lay in state stale tor for all too the world arid to see bee her uncle was nas pros grated lie he did not try to collect the insurance tor for some months and when he be did the company paid him la III full with mith expressions of real sympathy so did nine other companies which he be had silenced by the same ruse and he be joined his niece on the continent with mith a very impressive fortune fortun e |