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SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926.

"DEAD" WOMAN CASE.

INSURANCE FRAUD

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Mrs. Susannah Hughes Bovari Strands of a girl's hair from an (62), a cook, again appeared at unbobbed head are an important Bow Street Police Court, London, item in a delicate instrument" for before Mr. Graham Campbell, char measuring the humidity of the air, ged with living conspired, with which may be seen at the British, David Maldwyn Hughes Bevan Chemical Plant Exhibition. This and others, to obtain £2881, 13. is being held at the Central Hall Gd. by false pretence from the Pru- in connection with the Chemical dential Assurance Co. (Ltd). She Industry Society Conference. was also charged with, between "Yes, blondes are preferred," an June 29, 1022, and February, 12, expert told a Daily Chronicle re- 1923, unlawfully manufacturing presentative. And they must be false evidence for the purpose of young, too, Girls between 20 and misleading a judicial tribunal, and 25 with blonde hair are the ideal also with obtaining money by false subjects from which to obtain ayitable strands for the hair pretences.

Mrs. Bevan was brought Trombygrocope. New Zealand to answer the charge,

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it being alleged that, following the visited the cooling machines on legal presumption by the Highview. One unpretentious plant! Court of her death by drowning at cooled liquids from 2,000deg. Ilfracombe four years ago, the Fahrenheit down to zero in a short Prudential Assurance. Co., as the space of time. Yet another reach- Near at hand were result of fraud and conspiracy to cd-10deg. which the prisoner was a party, loo machines capable of turning paid out the £2881-in-respect of her out from 30 cwt. to 16 tons of ice

each day. death.

• Mr. Gerald Dodson prosecuted. for the Prudential Assurance Co., and Mr. Edgar Smith appeared for the accused....

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An instrument capable of meu- Buring the amount of water in samples of whisky was exhibited by Messrs. Negretti and Zambra." At the previous, hearing Mr.It may also be used to analyse the Gerald Dodson stated that accused constituents of cocktails, had pretended to be dead, and had succeeded in the difficult task of sustaining that rate for something like four years.

Known as Trixie Finch. The first witness yesterday was Mrs. Kathleen Francis Thorp, of The Elms, Boreham Wood, Herts, who said that the accused was employed by her as a cook from October 1924 to February 9, 1925. When she left she said she intend. ed to go to New Zealand. Witnesa knew her as Trixie Finch."

Mr. Dodson-Did she ever tell you at all as to her financial stand- ing?-Nothing to do with herself. She spoke of the financial worries of a woman friend living in Wales." She said the friend's mother was accidentally drowned, and she alsu spoke about the drowned woman also having been insured. She asked my advice us to whether the friend should go to a solicitor.

Did she say whether anybody, had got the insurance mony? No. The insurance money, had been held up and she thought the solicitor was holding it up.

Witness had received a letter. from the accused after she reached New-Zealand,

Cross-examined by Mr. Edgar Smith, witness said that accused was an excellent maid, and that she was thoroughly sorry to parti with her. She was also thorough- ly honest.

Wished to go. Abroad.

Miss Everil Vincent, carrying ! on business at 67 Edgware Road" as the British Empire Bureau, said that she remembered defendant coming to her in the name of Trixie Finch. She said she wished. to go abroad, and preferred Aus- tralia or New Zealand. Witness offered her a position as cook at Christ Church, New Zealand..

Daniel Morgan, of Bailey Street, Bryamawr, Brecknockshire, assis tant superintendent there for the Prudential Assurance Company, said that Mrs. Bevan signed a pr›- posal form on December 23,, 1920, for a policy on her life of £2000. He believed she had another smal- ler policy with the Company. The premium was paid and the policy was issued.

Percy Grounds Austin, formerly principal clerk in the clafins de partment of the Prudential Com- pany, said that a policy for £2000 was-issued to Susannah Bevan, dated December 31, 1920. In July 1922-application was made to the Company for payment of the money on the policy. Payment was made on that policy and on two smaller. ones, amounting al- together to £2881 188: Gd., to the executor of Susannah Bevan The claim was made after the Hight Court had given leave to presume the death, and the money was paid on the production of a probate certificate.

Another £200 Policy. Harold James Oake, a clerk, of the Eagle Star and British Dom- inions Insurance Company, sail that in October 1921 they had a proposal from Susannah Bevan for a policy of £2,000 on her life. The policy was issued later. A claim was subsequently made against the Company by the cxccutors. The Company, however, refused to pay the claim, but he did not know their reason

Leslie M'Clintock, a clerk in Somerset House, produced the will of Susannah Bevan. He said that in it David Harries Bowen was ap pointed executor, and the will lef her estate to her son, David Bevan:

Mr. Dodson intimated to the Magistrate that he had only one more witness to call to complete the case.

The Magistrate said he would adjourn the enso until July 24.

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