The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-30
The Brick-L4den Coffin.
The Latest Attempt to Swindle q Life
Insurance Company.
Doctor Uling Attempts to Emulate A. w.
Faulkner.

Almost all our readers remember the at
tempt of A. w. Faulkner, of Caldwell parish,
and they remember, too, the establishment
that was expressed ald the eXcitment Gre
ated by the disclosures made at the time.
All the particulars, as they were published
at the time, were eagerly devoured, and
hence it is easy to understand the excite
ment which prevailed in New York when a
German doctor (Uiing) was detected in a
similar fraud.
1t seems he attempted to bury coffin full
of bricks, pretending it to be the body Of a
young lady whose life he had insured for his
benefit
Louisa Germs, the young woman, was ar
rested in New York on Monday, Uling being
already in the custody of The law, and the
Sun has the following additional to say on
the subject:
When tax en- to the Central Police Station
and examined by the officer in charge,
Louisa persisted in regarding the affair as
huge joke, replied readily, seeming to wish
to conceal nothing, and laughing jOyOusly
whenever she thought she made a telling
point.
She says that Uling had not let her into
the secret that the conspiracy was to obtain
the insurance on her life. On the contrary.
he told her that she was to personate
another girl, on whose life he held policy
of $1,000. He was to marry her when they
got the money. When DIR. Kantrovitch
called to see her she says she was really
Sick but W hen DR.. Kurtz attended her she
was shamming. She simulated commissions
by holding soap in her mouth and comfort
ing her limbs. 1t imposed completely on
the physician, who prescribed and went
away. He must be very green to be fooled
SO easily" she said, laughlngly.
AS to the funeral preparations, she says
that the undertaken, Finck, entered first,
while she was expecting the persons in the
house to call to see the corpse. She lay OH
the bed with sheet drawn up to her chin,
her face painted white and as death-like as
possible. Finck brought the coffin in, and
the bricks were put into it by him and Dr.
Uling. To deceive her, she supposes, the
name was inscribed on the plate, "Louisa
Grennet." She was not put into the coffin at
all. The morning of the funeral she was not
well, and DR.. Uling asked one of his patients
to go as chief mourner so she was denied
the satisfaction of riding to her own funeral.
The sensation caused by her arrest had
hadrly subsidized before a wagon containing
the exhumed coffin arrived at the police cen
trail Office. The dirt stained box attracted a
throng that speedily filled the hall and
offices. Public commissioners, the 1epresen-
tatives of the insurance company, and as
many casual visitors as the apartment could
hold, were admitted into the rear room of
the detective office. Louisa Germs and
Finck were brought in. 1t was the first in
timation to the undertaken that every
thread of the conspiracy was discovered, and
when he saw Louisa Germs, his whole frame
swayed as though he would fall.
Have you ever seen that coffin befOreW
inquired Capt. Irving of Louisa.
II know it we'll, she replied.
"Who screwed the lid down."
That is the man." said she, pointing to-
wards Finck.
"Who put the bricks in 2"
CDR. Uling. While l was pretending to
be sick he brought the bricks in, two or
three at time. Madame Marie Mrs
Uling) wrapped them in paper When they
were ready to fill the coffin, Dr. Uling car
ried them, one or two at a time, from under
the bed in the back ROOM"
Finck denied the truth of the story at
first, and persisted in saying that he screwed
the c. fin-lid down upon human body, alive
or dead. He was taken back to his cell, and
there he weakened, and confessed that he
was party to the conspiracy, and was to
receive $3.50 when the money was obtained
from the insurance company. He prepared
the laths with which the bricks were fasten-
ed in the coffin, and screwed them in.
1t had been intended to keep Uling igno-
rant of the arrest of Louisa Germs until they
could be brought face to face in court.
Early in the morning he was taken into the
office, and he wrote two letters,
one to his counsel and another to friend
asking him to go to 100 Eldridge street and
tell his sister (wite) that he was arrested,
and to bring. hig some clean linen; As the
story of Louisa Germs and the confession of
it was deemed unnecessary to
keep him longer in ignorance and he was
confronted with the girl. Louisa, as soon
as he entered the room, started toward him,
saying, "Meine lieber Uling," (My love
Uling). The detectives restrained her.
Uling was calm, but it required all his
fortitude to maintain his stolidity. Asked
if she knew him. she merely answered
''Yes." The prisoners were returned to
their cells. Loulsa's gayety forsook her as
the key was tdrned upon her. She burst in
to tears, ard seemed to think that there was
more than joke in the con-
spracy. She upbraided herself with hav-
ing injured Uling, HON she said she loved,
and whose promise to marry her she re-
garded as still binding
Congressman VIM. A. Phillips, of Kansas,
received a dispatch from his home in salina
the other night, saying that his residence,
valued at $4,000, had been totally de-