Show A CONTEMPTIBLE VILLIAN A Man Insures his life Devises a Cute Plan forGetting for-Getting the Money but Jails Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch RALEIGH N C May 23 Twelve months ago Joseph Dillon a wellknovgr citizen ot Ty rel county insured his life for Iwooin theConnec tied Mutual Life Insurance Company Some time after he fell from a boat feigned inability to swim and had tobe pulled out of Alligator riverto prevent drowning Next day he overturned over-turned his boat half a mile from shore and yelled loudly for help to a man a quarter of a mile away When the man responded Dillon Dion secretly swam ashore and could not be seen The man whose assistance he had asked sup posed he was drowned and was perfectly willing wilng to swear to it Notice of Dillons death was sent to the company Jt refused to pay the insurance and faction was by Dillons wife and tho case brought stood for trial at court last week His widow alleged he was drowned Ten days ago a body was found near the place where he had been seen to sink in the water The body was identified by twentyfive people as that of Dillon At court counsel tOt the wife took a nonsuit because the body had been found The evidence of his death and identification was forwarded to the identUcaton company com-pany who wrote that they would do as advised by their attorney in the county There is no doubt that the company would have paid the money out iassrIuay to the surprise of every one Dillon himself returned safe and sound to Columbia Hearing of the nonsuit he thought it put an end to his claim and that there was no hope of collecting the money and he returned 10 home He kept in the great swamps for five months where he found the body of a drowned man floating in Alligator river He removed the hair from the head so as to make it bald and taking his own hair and whiskers put them in the decomposed flesh of the corpse He knocked out two of the front teeth of the dead man and removed the clothing from the corpse and dressed it in corse i the clothing he had worn on the day of his disappearance At night wor conveyed con-veyed the body to the place where he was sup posed to have been drowned News of his return created much excitement and talk of lynching and tar and feathers was freely indulged in |