Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-04-24

dellcacy Of color so desirable in Insurance.
candidates, and had no bad habits; so she
was accepted and duly insured, and the Secre
tary counted up what would be the profits IL
that excellent risk provided the yearly
premiums we're duly paid for the next iftl
or sixty years. And thus Louisa became .
prospective millionaire.
Dr. Uling, although married man, wai
Louisa's accepted lover, or, in other words
had agreed to marry her as soon as his wife
who was old and shaky, should conclude to de
part hence.
A few days after the insurance was effected
the company received notice Of the death OF
Miss Germs, and the Secretary left of figur.
ing and began to investigate. The more he
investigated the stronger grew his conclu.
sions that the doctor and the pretty .trauleir
were frauds. Ullng insisted otherwise, and
brought in DIR. Kurtz, who testified that he
visited the patient two days before her alleged
death, and that she was frothing at the mouth
and appeared to be in convulsions and very
dangerously i'll. Then he produced a certih
cate Of burial and brought the undertaken who
offlciated at that ceremony. Still the hard.
fisted dispensers Of post mortuary beneAcencC
were unsatisfed, and procuring an order
from the proper authorities invaded the
sanctuary of the dead, and proceeded to ex.
hume the corpse. 1t was terrible undertak.
ing TO come unasked into the presence Of one
who had exchanged the here for the hereafter
but duty, stern duty TO the stockholders de.
manded the sacrifice and there was no room
for sentiment. At last the coffin was reached
and lifted to the upper earth. Sacrilegious
hands were laid upon the casket, the lid was
lifted, and there, resting in stony silence, lay
"a pile Of bricks. Here stood the fraud con-
fessed. The officers had only hoped to dis
cover that the poor victim had been poisoned,
when here was the evidence that she was not
even dead.
1t did not take many minutes for the astute
officers TO decide what to do. Detectives were
employed and soon the fair deluder, DIR.
Uling and the undertaken were In custody.
Louisa, when taken by the officers, was in the
best Of spirits, and seemed 10 look on the
whole affair as joke. 1t was only when she
heard the door of her cell locked that she saw
the matter in serious light and burst into
tears. According TO her statement she was
led into the conspiracy by her lover, DR..
Uling, who intended to take her TO Germany
with him when the expected 10,OO0 should be
obtained. Two nights before her "deathn
DR.. Kurtz was called to see her. AS soon as
she heard him coming she chewed some soap,
foamed at the mouth, and when he entered
his patient was in "convulsions"-of sup
pressed laughter-but to him her case seemed
dangerous. 1t was DIR. Uling's wife who
brought the bricks into the house; Uling put
them in the coffin, and the undertaken sadly
and with solemn face screwed the lid down
upon them ere they were consigned to their
last home. Louisa, meanwhile, lay pale
and still ON the couch-the very
semblance Of death, but not dead. The doc
tor had, with an artists hand, made her face
white as a corpse by beautiful use of chalk
and whiting. He then went mournfully
up stairs, and in q voice choking with emo
tion asked the other dwelers in the house to
descend and look upon her, so fair, so young,
upon whom Death had laid his icy fingers.
But the people were heartless aud cared not to
see poor Louisa. A lady in black at the
funeral, one Of Dr. Uling's patients, at his re-
quest, mourned above the insensate, sluggish
bricks. rE
at first the undertaken utterly denied the
truth of Louisa's confession so far as 1t re-
lated TO him, but finding that he had little to
gain by doing so he finally said that his first
assertion that he had closed the coffin on
a human being was false. He had entered
into the conspiracy for the sake of $3.50, which
DIR. Uling promised to pay him when the
$4,000 should be received from the insurance
company.