Show FRAUD ON LIFE COMPANIES COMPANIE 3 scheme schema worked successfully by a girl who counterfeited death A fraud scheme at the expense ot of ufa life insurance companies coro panie vaa mas carried out thieo successfully as long ago as 1730 A young woman with an extraordinary power of simulating death had f r ft a confederate an elder ly man who passed for her uncle twice in different parta parts of england ehe she insured her life in her uncle a fa vor went into convulsions and to all appearances died the third time the game was plaes with an ingenious variation the undo went to a life insurance company explained that be he was lu 1 financial straits and wished to bairow money on hia his niece a estate to compensate for fich a loan he would have to insure hw hir life for ita value but rould could not afford to hate hae insurance Ine urance bacomo b acome known a as it would expose bis his financial condition and aln euln hie his credit tho the therefore agreed to write the anco under a bond of sebery As usual the young woman went ent into convulsion convulsions and dieal before her funeral she la in state for all the world to see her ifer uncle was pros grated lie did not tr to collect the ansur anc anco for some months and when he did the company paid him la in full with of real sympathy so did nine other companies which I 1 ho he had silenced elk cd ced by ho the same ruse and ha hot jolien hta his niece on the continent aith ith a very impressive fortune |