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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955.

HE "KILLED" HIMSELF TWICE

AND LIVED ON THE INSURANCE

T

By A. J. FORREST

of all · whore

HR best-latfel schemes Being without big cities or of cruoked men can slums or seaports, there collapse very sud- are few places, lenst denly, thanks 10 meuntain villages, Interpol. There was Berg X. wanted criminals can lie up who lived undetected. fur instance. palatially in an East Swiss resort, not far from lovely Lake Constance,

Was

So Herr X's portrait parle (spoken picture) imatediately transmittet by As an elderly, practising reflo to Berlin, then Inter. lawyer. Herr X enjoyed the pol's European centre.

extern

a pretty girl secretary

the of his clients. hay

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essentia', For paradiso

to

shattered.

Co-

The

wages were insußßelent for their A little cautious, they did not pleasures, he soon succeeded in give her the money immediate- "blinding himself" on the result Iy, but requested her first to of on "accident" at work. Up forward a special form to her popped Henriette, distracted by dead husband's mother, asking her husband's terrible affliction, for certain particulars and 1 to collect the insurance money doctor's signature. on his behalf.

very

Tactful Sympathy

Back came the form quickly. all detalls completed, and the esential signature ni- tached. With N In the "bereaved mother"" hand- hod writing--the food woman actually died some years earlier fell was a request for an advance payment of 1,500 francs to meet her son's funeral expenses. The Insurance company promptly forwarded this, and Henrietta pockeled a fat cheque for the balance of 48,500 francs.

Thus inspired. the pair they had the key to vast TC

sources. Henrietie sailed back to Belglum. Meanwhile Nicolaid). his sight thoroughly sound now Fresh prospected

Kround Youngstown (Ohio).

Cart

Getting employment ironworks, he tooks out a 8,000- dollar life insurance policy, with his wife as sole beneficiary In the event of his death, Soon afterwards. It happened that his fellow lodger mel with a fatal accident. Whether 115 death was truly accidental, or whether

Nicolaidi made it appear

was never determined.

SD,

CALINES.

Within forty-eight hours, rivic alike of the authorities and his

Paris forwarded a pros

message

Meanwhile, in Houmania, Nicolaidi The har-

shrewdly described Berous professional friends, from Cherbourg.

himself as an Adventist by re- Then one Monday morning, bour polier reported that

well ligious conviction,

aware he a man answering shortly before the war.

to Herr

that followers of this faith are was unaccountably missing X's description had embark.

buried with

of a minimum pomp and documentation. As fe in his office as was also ed

liner Europa

schemed, he “died" after a bout which was sailing for New

of pneumonin bul,

his XIN York, The captain WAN

"doctor" ulterted, from "natural tions were contacted by radio, request. in stoppest inter

the captain.

Already his grave at this stage lawyer's protests of "there

had been heritance, WILM expecting of to identify Herr X and,

Within a few days or this

ituk 13 the Adventists' rather Lie legacy in cash. So the if satisfied that he was the of the preceedings, had no must be some mistake" did fatality, a police inspector called neglected plot, A fresh burial

the howyer's abscending Bast Swiss authority to arrest or detain ne reassure her. question of

at Henrictie's home in Brussels, having taken place there a day or two earlier. It proved easy to wher, abouts was of thump lawyer, (** confront

So, despite his avowals, telling her in tactful sympa hy him Here X.

That her husband had been kill- persuade The gruve-diggers, ing big interest to him. The with the grave charge of

Herr X Authority

was marched out d to make

Then, as a mufter of offelal then engaged, To prepare for informed

The embezzlement

of his cabin. His tall, fe- business police.

he arrest

asked her to

Then two en ther interment WAIH immediately inwyer's sudden disappear

vonfederates, to whom Niculaidi wind to him

ly proportioned girl friend Identity a photograph he show- and, urm.xi

promised a share in his fortune, thee, took control རྟཉྩ། his

with the radio-telegram, the sobbed and shivered in her her of the corpse She swore

WIN Nicolaidt's. breaking agreed fo play the Dar! office.

he down and sobbing captain. accompanied hy

undertakers. as she did two senior officers, entered glanced back, seeing the last so

of these creature comforts

received from the wanted man's cabin.

Youngstown Insurance He was Herr X, his brow cloud. he sust coveted,

pany, Nicolaldi's full ing in anger, started back. sent to prison

seven money. Soon her "dead" band joined her. it One officer gripped

!ż {u u and fingers knows Everyone

obviously about smiles lady arms, forcing them tightly

itching to get hold of his reward Interpol today. had spoken behind his back, while the teen years ago, Herr X and But arven-

La counterfeil "corpse." Switzerland is not a coun-

of embezzlement Herr X explain pronounced the try where crooks can easily hati denied emphatically the order of arrest. The girl many other well-informed

It is small, and police imputation

people like him hide.

against his burst into tears. So cruelly control

suspected its existence,

Oberal auditors exam.neit The locks Then the reasont for his absence. ነና “ኔ -- star- clear. The sum of 450,000 Swiss Tranes, nearly £40.000 worth of his clients' money. had vanished too.

Luxury Cabin

The captain reported that the susptet was occupying a

cabin. sharing luxury with a young Swiss But when he

Krf and horror as

his

years.

is relatively easy character Further instruc. were her dreams of a luxury

"I raft down the rapids of the Rio Grande” THE PRINCESS

M

WILL

FIND EXCITEMENT

the last on February I she starts her Caribbean tour. Hore EVELYN IRONS—takes a close-up preview

Princess Margaret flies west into the sunshine on day of this month

of the official—and off-duty---programme for the Princess.

Exa

New York. purcht overlooking the jade and tropical and OST of Princess Mur- a que marine

MAGI Raden

Ath orchid- garet's time away Gerad trees

Another high spot of the four werks our will be the day

when

from the

crowded

racht

five-mile

wit

official functions of her tour ww the Princess will spend an of the West Indies next month will be spent in that afternoon Tafting down the Ro

Grande in Jamaieu, Even the expensive Royal

way

1 dl --in a deluge which has been assigned to

10. this

Threeing transport her from island to adventure,

broad. shallow river island. But here and there

theagh whe will be shown the sybaritic June-in-February life that most other tourists rave about.

through the day and night. But when slæ arrives she will find a mad whirl of preparatum for that wild festival, wish 150 binds drumming at the top of their funn.

amonk her

Sandwiched

of children's rallies. schedule

ctcruses of welcome, hospitul visits and the other duties of a regard tomar is a miniature ternival Ancking specially laid on for her.

She lushly will like that. wooded blufts und the high Blue Muntargs, is one of the Quilts of a deme.

In A

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One more rally

augh riverside hut you

From Trinidad the Prince is change into a bathing-suit. Turn One of the days she will you embark on a long, narrow

makes a 35-minute Bight W enjoy most will be at Heron raft made of thick bab peles island Luceuse Defoe, who never Thero called Robinson Crusce Bay. This is the coral lime feshed togther. In the stern Is

its pulm- stone house which

A seat for two. Mr

Your "captain," left a footprint on Ronald Tree, wealthy ex-M1', the run of the river-washed deck

lean Negro boy in shorts, has inged sands, stole the selling!

from a book he read about it. A 6%-hour visit there built

himself and his as he guides the frail craft overly her for American second wife seven the dozens of rapids with his years Bgo

મ private huge bamboo pole. beach

the

In-tead.

for

never even

Riotous Living

The Cum- Artu1}? 11.45-

A Roumanian citizen. with the fictitious name of For a time they lived molcus- Nicolas

Then, with funds running Nicolaidi, carved

1 ex- out a novel niche for him out, Nicolaidi thought

pedient to kill and bury himself self in international crime. once more. This time he insured

In Belgium he married a himself under another name. A

Brussels pretty Brussels girl, Hen-

company, Having his Initial premium accepted She became and satisfied themselves by tu

rieste C.

05

where

05

JUN

his wife and his accom- his medical report, now guard- plice in a series of most ed his precious ble to the tune of 50.000 Swiss franes. Then he impudent conspiracies.

went to Roumania. Shortly afterwards they em- barked for Canada, Nicolaidi got a Job electrician in Montreal. There.

tomok

out tin raployers' hability insurance policy for 850 dollara.

The couple both loved to have good time. And since his

h

Н

Within

A few weeks planned, Henriette received letter, purporting to come from her deceased husband's mother. The letter enclosed his death certificate. In

widow's weeds she tripped off to the in- surance company.

her

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Your

Secret Thoughts

From CHAPMAN PINCHER

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our

Paris. the American TV chimpanzee, THOUGHT. Olling to his income tax forms. Then my chair was swivelled which re

round to free a TV-sized screen on which appeared pictures of strange patterns and girl modela in artistic posts.

All the time women blotogists watched

my private thoughts being traced out by quivering pens on a paper chart.

the Isle of Wight girls wade out from the shore, she presides at a children's rally if the unnatural habit of watch-

seems to allow her no time to veals what happens in see the off-shore island which brains when we watch an is the only place cutside New exciting film has been built in Barbados the White herons gril lazily over Guinea where birds of paradise by French scientists.

the water. Naked

boys and live in a wild state. sugar-growing island

They are using it to And out size of

playing mouth-organs und

and and a garden party. which was originally settled bogging Tor pennies. Where

ing TV and linning to radio At Grenada, by Englishmen and is called the steam runs quiet and dee land where the main crop

spice-acent has any unexpected effects on you pull up and swim. At each Little England.

the hilis rising foaming rapid

have the nutmeg and

The experiments are backed

French radio Blusion that the tofs will be steeply from the Caribbean ate by

and TV dashed

pieces,

but the covered with hibiscus, bougain-authorities who belleve they may "cepta," who

villea and scarlet-flowered royal yield now infamations leading Rense of VRI bcs o theatre, kes you un beziter-

poinciana trees, another garden to a better hooks while he misses the rocks party, another children's rally. by millimetres.

Taking it easy

At his home

in New York Mr Tree told me: "The Princess wil} apend Д day with us.

lunching and swimming and teking It vosy. Nobody will be

there except the family."

Mr Tree's young son, Jeremy 吐 Princes Margaret's

tone closest friends), will be there. So will his other son, Michaol, and his wife, Lady Anne, they will have two days in New York before

leaving for Barbados

with Mr and Mrs Ronald Tre

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Summer, summer

in

the brain.

When analysed, this snoop Inside my skull turned out to a devastating disclosure of primitive side of my personality.

bo the

The Epporrance of special "theta" brain-wove showed understanding of that I was secretly disappointed what programmes people enjoy when the climber did not fall.

The same on bry windswept most. Antigua- but here I am glad to The machine is also being Eco, they are taking the PrinceSH

used to study the precise effects to ono of the most

On the masculine mind of strip- the West sports

tease pictures. crumbling, after her Harbour, which wag

Nelson's dockyard, and where his house and some of his naval workshops and offices still stand.

When she steps from her dero- plane in Trinidad

fight from wintry London, the Princess will receive the full impact of the islands where 13 always

heat summer-the purple bougainvillea, (about 60 degrees), the plot

the tiny

to open the house for the season jewelled humming birds sipping

Lady Anne's sister, Lady the rearlet

Elizabeth

land-locked English

Another side

chce

Today I volunteered to be the first British "guinea-pig" in their experiments at the famous Santo Anne Hospital in Peris

I

EMBARRASSING..

was frustrated when no blood was drawn in the boxing bout, and morbidly exelled when

men were wounded in the battle EOCTICS,

Scenes of misery left me un- moved, Yet while I have al-

• Cavendish, is one of hibiscus flowers, the women in Islands, Sir Kenneth Blackburne, acts to pick up "brain-waves" barenssindy strong response,

the Princess's two Indies-in- walting during the tour, and their father, the Duke of Devon- shiro, is travelling to Barbados to be with them when Princess Merguy?" goes to Heron Bay.

Fairy palace

their

summer

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While mat in an armchair facing a cinema screen four girls ways professed to be bored by.

inced me with the big record-

strip-tease pels the "thought- ing machine.

machine" disclosed an em- A helmet with 10 electric con- The Governor of the Leeward Cf rose-coloured

moment the fith-not was fixed to my head. Devices stockings newvered

is giving her a picnic lunch at

appeared

my to measure my "emotional rose- his country dresses and

blinking and my sparkling whites.

the men in their Clarence House,

residends i perched on the ton" were attached to my hands. Sy stopped

heart

beat faster. When it overlooking

the harbour where

LIGHTS OUT

abruptly ended there was an My bot on what will Impress the Duke of Clarence,

Kina

abundance of frustration wavos her most the steel bands, You William IV, lived for a time.

and blinks. "dustbin.. With all the formal functions My left leg was linked with orchestra" from Trinidad that and pleturesque excursions, it an doctric pulse-beat recorder, was in London for the Festival may not be carry for Princess A plastic dunnet was fixed in of Britain? The strange pul- Margniet to realise the seamy front of my nose to detect avery, brain-wave, ovary eyelid antin nating rhythms of those brightly side of life in

remember

late

theso

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painted Instruments made from introds, which Lloyd. excorony ohanges in my breathing rate.

I wanted to de it all

and

pass off the eye-blinks as yawns

bub

there was the chart showing

Government House in Bridge

movement, every poart-beat, town, Barbados, where the

Then the fighte went and every beath Princess will be staying with the discarded all drums have a le

called "ine Simms of

the the strangest Aim I have ever The experiments have been Governor, Brigadier Sir Robert Infinitely more

She vited Impact Empire."

may not be seen fished on to the screen. It devised by Dr Georges Vardemux, ngad his wife who here, in their own place, Arundali

allowed to see the conditions in was an ingenious mix-up of a leading Paris pkychiatrist, hi have a ton at Cambridge), la

the poverty-line shanty-bow shots showing

wat. scones, biologist wife Jacqueline, and out of the run of official The Princess will min the which are driving thousands of mountain climbing, girls lows in Robert Frances, who is working residences in the Islands, But carnival, when Trinidad, goes West Indling to wrest, a living malt-net stockam, boxing, Berlin, on behalf of

of the Contre d'obudes Heron Bay, built in the style of crazy for two days before: Ash from chilly Britain.

rlots, hungry children, and mild Radiophoniqtadagio T the grout 10th century architect Wodnesday, with all Port of „But, parim,ahe will, lusim on strip-tease, VALVE

KARATAY, KOH also being held to Palladio, la fomething from a Epain in Zantastic costume play» /-being: Gallery round, to the back lended with hitachous probe the effects of prison lige fairytale, with clessing, dining- ing and singing and diguing door, too,

joqtenca, showing J. Fred Muggs on the minde, of men,

Sandbag "Corpse"

Hiring hearse,

कर्म

hackney drawn and driving it them- selves, they collected his coffin ed "boy" and conveyed it with appropriate solemnity.

the burial ground.

to

Soon afterwards, with fuise papers and identity, Nicolaidi. accompanied by his two con. federales, landed In Brussels, their minds

set on every kind of material delight

But Crooks zeldom enjoy or earn that most priceless gift of human life, true friendship. One of Nicolaidi's friends wanted bigger split than the twice re- surrected "corpse" wus willing to give.

So, with Nicolaidi udzmant his friend wrote unonymously to the police. Inquiries began. And the entire series of In surance – swindling Impostures was disclosed.

The Roumanian police decided il was essential to see who wILS" buried in place of this audacious swindler.

They dug up Nicolaidi's coffins, very heavily nailed down, for examination. On prizing open the ld they were relieved to lind, not a corpse, but a heavy sandbag wrapped in old news- papers,

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