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Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic Record of Remarkable Cases, by John B. Lewis (1832 - 1914) and Charles C. Bombaugh (1828 - 1906)

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A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples.

The present . . . volume is . . . commended as a trustworthy record to those for whose use and reference it is primarily intended—life insurance companies and agents, medical examiners, insurance lawyers, and medico-legal experts. . . . [It] is not confined to the exposure of the cunning contrivances and artifices of this class of schemers and plotters; it includes picturesque views of detection and punishment; of the determined efforts of the companies, at whatever cost, to run them down; of the machinery of courts of justice; of the gloom of the prison cell; of the dark outlines of the scaffold. The cases in this book are for the most part more suggestive or instructive to detective agencies than to conspirators. . . . These narratives also show that no community has a monopoly of the piratical adventurers who thus prey upon beneficent institutions. They are of all nationalities as well as of both sexes, and everywhere alike "to no code or creed confined." (Summary by TriciaG and from the Preface)
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It's going to take me a while to set up the Magic Window. :P
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Post by Availle »

How wonderful. Thank you Tricia. :roll: :mrgreen:

If you don't mind me claiming a bit early, I'd like to do the preface and The Pennsylvania Graveyard Epidemic (sections 7/8). What does this even mean? Graveyards spreading uncontrollably? With or without dead people? Or is this another term for the looming zombie apocalypse? :shock:

In any case, sounds right up my alley! :lol:
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Ha ha! Yes, I'll put you in for those.
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Post by mleigh »

This looks fascinating. Could I have sections 1-5, Pretended Death? Or, would you prefer I wait until you've entered everything?

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Claims entered, MW filled in. 8-)
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Post by vmead »

I know this is still in the launchpad, but I would love section 11! This book seems so interesting.
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Still in the launch pad, but open for claims. :) I'll put you in - thanks!
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I'd like to claim sections 65 and 66, please.
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Ciufi wrote: October 9th, 2021, 12:59 pm I'd like to claim sections 65 and 66, please.
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Post by Piotrek81 »

I'd like to claim section 12. I like true crime content, so if I like this one, I'll be happy to claim more. :)
Also, just for confirmation, I'm assuming that I'm to start with "A Boston Scamp" and stop at "The Gay Deceiver, Boswell alias Howe"?
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Thank you! And yes, your start and end assumptions were correct. 8-)
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The duration of the file was 12:30
I'll take section 13.
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Thanks, and thanks!
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