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Show A Tragic Game Everybody has heard of the "old sport" who in reply to the solicitations of a life insurance agent, who insisted, on selling him a policy upon his mortal existence, said that "he'd be blessed if he wanted te play at any game that he could only win by dying." A man, a professor, a resident of Dover, Delaware, and known as Ike West, recently attempted to play this game by having some one else do the dying, while he drew the insurance premium. The case is perhaps the moet remarkable io the records of crime. West is a scientist of some repute and had an experimental chemi ' caj laboratory at Dover, where he was esteemed among the most respeatable of the citizens. He bad his life insured in-sured for a large sum and conceived the idea of obtaining the amount of his policy, by enticing some one about ' his size and build to his laboratory, and after murdering him to fire aod blow up the premises. He is a married mar-ried man, and in the event of his - death his wife would be entitled to the amount of his policy. He was experimenting with a new kind of gas, and before the tragedy, on several occasions, oc-casions, had invited personal friends to visit him and witness the experiments, experi-ments, but by good luck, for no one had a suspicion of his purpose, his invitations in-vitations were declined. Growing desperate and hasty, he seduced a poor negro to his office, and killed Dim. Knowing that tho body of the negro would be readily distinguished from his own, he deliberately skinned I it and cut off the hands and feet, in I order that it might pass investiga- : tion as tho body of a white man. Having done this he fired the fuse to a torpedo b.3 had arranged, and left tho premises. Only a partial explosion took place, and although at first it was thought that West had become the viotim ofhis own experiments, it was . soon discovered that the doad body j was that of the Dcgro. West was pursued, arrested, and U low in jail. |