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The Remarkable Case Of
CHAPTER TWO
THE CASE BOOK
OF SIR PATRICK THE FAMILY OF
HASTINGS, KC
LTHOUGH I was to befallen him, one. In particular
appear in many had aroused considerable strange Савев in plclon.
of after years, one the most remarkable cases of fraud I have ever known came my way quite early [In my career,
BUI-
ACCIDENTS
He had alleged that while company approached. In every walking along a railway plat case the story was exactly tho form the guard of a train had came. waved his ing so negligently that it caused on injury to his face, which had apparently re- sulted in a septic nose.
Or-
pre
con-
At last I had been entrusted And I had learned something "I am, my Lord." with a case which might well I was never to forgot that if
"Very well. I shall not dis- end my
period
of education, you are going to accuse a wit-
But I No risk would be too great to ness of fraud, make it clear allow the questions. There had been a dozen such bring about the much-desired in the first question. Often, if must point out that you
in one particular remdli, and I entered on a the witness 12 dishonest, a incurringja grave responsibili cases, and instance the same property had study of these are-raising ac- violent blow at the start will ty and may be running been burnt down on several vitles with nn It happened soon after I
enthusiasm knock him completely off his siderable risk. Understand that. Although the guard had in- different occasions.
which know no bounds.
carefully-prepared pedestal of to charge a man with being a had won my battle against dignantly denied any such
party to fraud of this nature- integrity.
of the is a matter
utmost the old lady who fell off a currence, and no trace of any
How the family had managed I studied every detail of at to continue successfully for so every fire until I knew them bus,
had injury could be discovered
As the witness walted appre- gravity." and before I graduated to the Lord Chief the time the claim was made, long without being found out all by heart. Mentally I cross-hensively, I resumed my ques- it was considered to be more was dimenit to understand; the examined the only witness I tions. I began with the first Justice's court, After it, I economical to settle a com- only possible explanation was should see until I knew every case of which we had detailed felt I had attained suf- paratively small claim by pay that they had
never insured question I
should ask, and knowledge. the their premises more than once every answer he must give. ficient experience to enter inent rather than incar
expense of tigation.
with the same insurance com- awaited the
morning of that illustrious place.
pany.
The case grew out of small beginnings.
unloading
Inquiries
A workman was
Now that a much larger baxes of oranges with a crane claim was being made, parti- the when a rope broke, and one cularly as it related to
that the appilcant ment.
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crane
he
the
I
trial as eagerly as a youthful More questions
It was unanimously decided bridegroom awaits his wedding that something must be done day. As the court assembled I to curb the activities of this even forgot my nervousness.
family, but enterprising question arose as to what steps In the box
the
same old leg, it was suspected could, possibly be taken. The
fire claims had all been pald the and there had not been When the workman descend- embarked on a regular court sightest evidence that any of making fraudulent claims the res had been deliberate. ed from his
was with the object of getting amazed to And man lying money out of underwriters, groaning on the curb. Hie and it was decided that come amazement was all the greater inquiries might be made from because he had not seen any other Insurance companies' to passer-by at the time of the find out if they, too, were fel- accident. Indeed, he was quite low sufferers. satisfied that there had been nobody present.
Claim made
However, the
was
found to be suffering from a serious injury to his leg, and in due course he made a claim damages against owners of the crane.
for
the
Opportunity
mare
Mr J, B. Matthews, KC.,
"Five years ago, did your father buy a derelict house at this address?" I gave him the address. The witness did not know.
"Did your brother
an excellent lawyer, appeared that house?" for the plaintiff, and as he told
The Rubicon
But I had come to the Rubi. con, and It was as well to go in up to the neck.
"I do, my Lord. And I am going to suggest that this wit- ness and his family have been parties to the same fraud on no fewer than. 13 previous oc- casions, in precisely the tame manner, and for precisely the repair same purpose: namely to awin-
dle insurance companies." the story of the falling oranges "I don't know."
there After that
Wis no the whole c.cc appeared a trifling matter. Ho even ex- "Did you yourself redecorate drawing back. For hours. I cross-examined' the plaintif r pressed mild surprise that that house?""
put to him house after house, To re-open each claim would the defendants appeared to dis
The witness seemed to hesi- and by the time we arrived of and puto that the accident had ever
the tate. cause enormous expenso,
last house in which the happened:**
same
had been burn- premises might result in nothing:
"Please don't say you don't ed to the ground three times... than grave suspicion.
The plaintiff went into the know, because I hold in my the jury had heard enough. It quiries were surprising. The But suppose, by come witness box and told his story. hand your detual bill that was required only the evidence of Brat company approached
that re-means, one member of the Then I arose to conduct my sent in to the Insurance com- the crane driver to deny
cross-examinationi: plied that, shortly before, they family could be forced into the
The atmo- pany.” I handed it up to him. the plaintiff had ever been in- had been required to meat a witness box and be cross- sphere in the court was lethor- "Is that your bill?"
jured by a falling crate of claim, not from the present examined about his share in gic. The Jury seemed bicopy:
oranges to enable them to Ana "It seems to be." applicant, but from his family, what was now belleved to be a Mr. Matthewo seemed bored at
a verdict in favour of the de- It appeared that his father had wholesale conspiracy.
"Is that bill grossly excen- fendants. suffered
misfortune. a grave He was a property owner who'
The plaintiff left the: court "Certainly not."
with a suggestion ringing. in his cars that the papers in the "Did any living person, ever case might deserve the sea what work you had done sideration of the Director of upon, those premises, except Public Frosecutions.
The answere to those
in-
The unexpected Incident of A careful medical examina- had recently acquired some de- a box of oranges falling from a crane might be a heaven- relict premises in the to establish that
tion seemed
Now it so happened that the insurance company called
the
the fum the defendants were. box making; the man in the was cocksure,
I put my Arst question, and
com-
<lve?"
yourself?"
A
con-
Happy moment
I remember yet the chango in of London. Hd had employed sent opportunity, though it was the leg injury might be of-long a frm of builders and a firm not easy to correlate the two his countenance. I said: standing and liable to retur, of decorators to renovate the events. To a judge and jury,
"I am going to suggest to you fall of oranges In Pimlico and not only, linble but. cap building. The present-applicant might seem far removed from that this case is a deliberate your father, your brother, and able of being made to retur was proprietor of the decora- mysterious fires in distant parts fraud, and that for years past by careful and knowledgeable ting frm, and his brother the
and it might be you and of London,
your family have manipulation.
builder.
dimcult to persuade them that lived by making fraudulent
insurance the oranges claims upon Immediately the building and an inquiry into on decorating had been completed, was materially assisted by a panics," to deal with the alleged ac-
the whole structure was burn prolonged cross-examination in- cident had some previous ex-
The atmosphere changed in a ground?" ed to the ground and the in- to the details of the fires. Не
second.
to The jury seemed. perlence of the claimant,
Furance company had been had made other claims in re compelled
The cross-examiner would wake up. Mr Matthews look-
a morass 95
of ignorance, and pil to pay o spect of accidents one of which claim.
family falls, surrounded by all the had apparently resulted in pre-
des and terrors which are but, to my great surprise and glanced miserably round
anxieties and. lest responsible for those premises elsely the same injury to pre- But that was only a begin- even greater joy, I was asked court, suddenly terried cisely the same leg, and among ning. Information began
to to take the risk, in the High we had discovered something being set ölight?" other misfortunes which had
of the family activities. pour in from every Insurance Court.
RIP! goes
Berlin. the Soviet sector of Berlin I put four-pence into a call-box to listen to the cold war at dictation speed.
TONIGHT in
heavy be forced to take some risks, ed amazed,. and the witness..
the
| by WILLIAM HAMSHER
new.
Iron Curtain
What
the
"I don't know."
That case was heard a good "Within two
0. days of your deal more than quarter of work being completed, was a century ago, but the memory that house burned
the of the trial will remain with
me for ever. Before then I was: a beginner, Roundering through
"There was a fire."
. "Ahd were .your
to
Court uproar
we
born, of inexperience. I had.. not even reached the beginning
of the road up which I long-
ed
50 passionately to climb.
In a day, all that changed.
To every professional man, Gooner or later, ruch n ma ment is certain to occur. För-. long time he is in the ranks
whats
the lawyer:. patients; of those who want; the doctor: -wantTM. wants clients; they all
for
The court was almost in an I had found my feet. иргонг. The plaintiff's solici- tor roso in protect. Mr Matthews sprang passionately But "objectivism" is becom- Well, there was a group of to his feet, trembling with in-
What possible re ing easier. For RIAS has purged Communist lawyers, sit dignation.
mast and new equipment, ting, round a table telling the levance could there be in such How a question? he asked. representing auch an increase in power and range that it now world how Justice has become duro counsel make' such an at- someone to discover that they
Communist Party tool in tack on his client? It was an lenced her to 18 months in the guarantees clear reception, day a
nre worth consideration employment. colis after the People's Police and night, not only through- East Germany. It sounded outrage. found in her flat a letter she out the Communist half of dreary.
The dangerous homent
Then, perhaps suddenly, per- Just a quiet female voice wrote. It was in praise of her Germany, but also in the "lost
were knew must come had now arhaps imperceptibly, the favourite
posl- the lawyers fringing. the lands"
the Eastern Programmer slowly over saying
the transmission
Patients Dr. to the Soviet borders of the Fatherland. really after was lo make out a rived. Would the judge allow tion is reversed.
the questions to continue? If clients begin telephone: "Achtung. Bran- zone by RIAS.
to want them;;; case that, having fled from the he did not, my great attempt the doctor and the lawyer be denburg. Watch out for
Christa
East, they are fit to practise in would end in ridicule. But if gin to find themselves these persons, paid to spy people's
the West.
he did, the chance of a life- the fortunate few who are- time had arrived.
themselves wanted. Doebeln, had thus linked ́ber-
with Western warmonger. R DIAS is American, part of the Then Frau Gertrud Milke
occupation set-up, backed stepped up to the microphone I remember his hesitation, And when that happy arrives they have crossed the Rubicon of their: profession, and can begin to The warning came from the listener wrote a letter to RIAS.
In nearby Zwickau, another daily its claim to know better her official shorthand record of me.
than Moscow, what goes on in evidence against Germans who,
understand," he said, climb the heights their ambi great new U. S. transmitting He went
the Soviet zone.
after being freed from Russian that you are alleging that the tion has pointed out to them. down for five years, stallon called
RIAS, which Police found the letter in the
concentration campa, were claim in the present ection is a stands for Radio in
To the German Communist handed over to Communist fraud." I bowed assent, the lining of his hat when they took bosses, RIAS American Sector of Berlin.
is officially the tribunals to be senterited," him off the Berlin train.
"And you are Unofficially,
proposing "cyanide sender.”
attack the plaintiff's character It spoke of members of the they like the daily dose.
by alleging that, be has been a East German Government in
party to earlier frauds?” Regular listeners Include"
on you.
Then followed a list of
. Aix
Wagner, said the prosecutor in Kreis
'Cyanide'
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and slowly repeated.
By callbox
Createst enemy.”
DIAS, taking Д different such terms that the Zwickau
In one form or other it repents
Prisoners were brought in on stretchers, Frau Milke said. "And when they asked permis
call witnesses to speak
R district cach week, makes people's prosecutor pressed the more than one member of the other chair, I was ordered
a point of giving the names of charge of attempted murder.
Cominform agents spying on
factory "plackers," "saboteurs," and "Western orientated
jectivists."
ob.
Report it
German campaign THE East
against foreign" listening
People who know they are will get a still rougher edge.
watched so closely that they
'Like a thief'
East German Government. The to strike it from my notes." prooft When RIAS bearned out some cutting comments on Soviet zone politics, one of the en plllorted: got a telephone call anking whether he heard the attack
Came the angry to the West on their
answer! radio (ngla have been told they will
"Of course I did." loudspeakers con still hear be sent home. uncured If they Western news
On a busy day, up to 20,000 from RIAS by switch on to any but approved people ve RIAS a ring and dialling from a private phone stations Nurses have been or call-box.
get their cyanide. ordered in writing that they
think it dangerous to listen in
80 far, though
Women in hospital in Thur-
East Berlin technielana jam→ It may be must report any patient break. dangerous, it is not officially a Ing ibis rule.
med the Orst
telephone con crime in East Germany to listen
Dection. RIAS experts changed Saxon Communist group the line.
"The Reds won't
to RIAS. Eight in ten of the leaders wanted to switch their scramble this one in a hurry 3,260,000 German Hatenors weekly meeting time so that they say.
bchin the Iron Curtala "they Could hear the RIAS
Joined with me in stening to
Western stations, tonight.
transmission.
But one regular listener, Frau Their proposal was "an im-
Dull, rather
Christa Wagner, a housewife, pertinent attempt nt objec- WHAT programmes go..out an of Krola Doebeln, Baxony, was tivism' and, was only narrowly the Eastern air from RIAS not with them............ Frau Wagner defeated through patriotic aus and the West German trans- |is in goal. A people's court sen- tion," the local paper reported. · mittern?
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(VING
RAU MILKE'S account of Soviet zone justice was loss sleep-inducing than that of the But still there was lawyers no drama in it, no pense that "here was, the radio outpost of the West bringing the hope of freedom to the East.
The absence of drama is in- tentional. "No flourish of trum
mid a programme Pets here,"
putting it acros
"If we went in for director.
the letters wou'd soon pile up telling us to keep it quict. We just go on the air like 'uthfoz in night, quietly telling the East- emes what goes, on in, their, home town. And that way it sure géis around."""
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