Show FRAUD ON LIFE COMPANIES Scheme Worked Successfully by a Girl Who Counterfeited Death A fraud scheme at the expense ot life Insurance companies was carried out three times successfully as long ago as 1730 A young woman with an extraordinary power of simulating death had fir a confederate an elderly elder-ly man who passed for her uncle Twice In different jkrts of England sho insured her life In her uncles favor fa-vor wont Into convulsions and to all appearances died The third time thC game was played with an Ingenious variation The uncle went to a life Insurance company explained that he was In financial straits and wished to borrow money on his nieces estate To compensate for such a loan ho would have to Insure her life for Its valuo but could not afford to have this Insurance become known as It would expose his financial condition and ruin his credit fho company therefore agreed to wrlto tho insurance Insur-ance under a bond of secrecy As usual tho young woman went Into convulsions and died Before her funeral sho lay In state for all the world to see Her uncle was prostrated pros-trated Ho did not try to collect tho Insurance Insur-ance for some months and when he did tho company paid him In full with expressions of real sympathy So did nine other companies which ho had silenced by tho same ruso and ho Joined his nleco on the continent with a very Impressive fortune |