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Show .. r i . i . in j - RZTTJRJSXD FOB, TRIAL !0B THE' SIXTH TIME. Famous Hlllmon Insurance Case Is , Again Eerersed. WASHINGTON, Fob. a-The celebrated Kansas Insurance case, which grew out of the alleged death ot John W. Hlllmon In that State in KT9, was today sent tack to the trial court for the sixth trial. Hillmon's life was Insured in the Connecticut Con-necticut Mutual Insurance company for $35,000, and when his death was reported the payment of the policy was resisted on the ground that he entered into a conspiracy con-spiracy with others to disappear, have the report circulated that he was dead, then substitute the. corpse of another man-and claim payment on the policy. Hlllmon disappeared while traveling on the plains with a man named Brown, who swore that he had been killed by the accidental acci-dental discharge- of a gun. The case has been in the courts ever since. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth circuit, at the laet hearing of the case, decided in favor of the claim of the widow of the insured nan, but the Supreme Su-preme court reversed the opinion on the ground of error in the trial. The opinion was delivered hv Justice Brown; Justlcts Brewer and White dissenting. |