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Show A Thrifty Pensioner William A. Munson, notary public and pension agent, of Providence, R. I., drev 19 pensions regularly for years. The government paid him about $20,-000. $20,-000. Munson usually kept the pension certMcatets of his clients in the office, and executed quarterly vouchers for the i ensioners. One by one the pensioners pen-sioners died. Munson continued to execute ex-ecute the vouchers, forging the name of tha pensioner, and usually that of the identifying witnesses. He kept up the practice until checks for 16 dead pensioners were regularly coining to him, Vesicles checks for three pensioners pension-ers who had remarried and ceased to be entitled to them. Among the beneficiaries ben-eficiaries was Munson's aunt. Sha drew her pension unlit 1ST'.). He also continued to draw for live years the pension of his sister al'ier she li.-u) died in her own house in IK01-, Worlds Work |