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 success tully as long as 1730 A young woman with an extraordinary power of simulating death had t a confederate an elder ly man who passed tor her uncle twice in different parts of england she insured her life in her uncle s ta vor went into convulsions and to all appearances died the third timet the game was played with an ingenious variation the uncle went to a life insurance company explained that hp was in financial straits and wished to borrow money on his niece s estate to compensate for such a loan he would have to insure her life tor its value but could not afford to have this insurance become known as t would expose his financial and ruin his credit the company therefore agreed to write the ansur ance under a bond of secrecy aa usual the young woman went into convulsions and died before her funeral she lay in state for all the world to see her uncle was pros grated he did not try to collect the ansur ance for some months and when he did the company paid him in full with expressions of real sympathy so did nine other companies which he had silenced by the same ruse and he joined his niece on the continent with a very impressive forti ne |