New-York tribune., 1883-12-11
SPECULATION IN INSURANCE.
SUSPICIOUS CASE AT FALL RIyER-INvEsTIGA-
TON By THE GRAND JURY.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNR.l


TON BY THE GRAND JURY.
iBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUSEl
FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. 10.-FrOm recent
investigations 1t has been learned that more speculative
insurance business has been carried In this city than IN
any other place in the country Pennsylvania enjoyed an
unenviablc reputation few years ago for graveyard
Insurance. but In that State the corporations themselves
were unsond while In Massachusetts the canvassers are
mainly at fault Two months palpable swindles were
attempted but taken by the companies at
that time other than to refuse payment OF the policies
j. b. Brock. manager OF the New-Bedford insurance
Company also learned OF OF suspicious nature
and Informed Mr. Stone manager OF the United states
MutuaI Benefit Association OF Boston, in which the per
son was insured They have been hard at work on the
investigation for two weeks, aud, after accumuating
large mass of evidence laid It before the Grand Jury In
Bedford on Saturday, when the following statements
made:
Charles Russell, aged thirty years, had died at
No 10 Orchard-st. under very suspicious cireum-
stances A man whose existence was un-
known IN this vicinity was represented having
sraUcc his life of $4,000 TO obtain which II was de
clarcd certain persons resOrted TO fou neans IL was
the persons Interested announced that he was dead and
held nclitious funeral WITH comm nuea MIN stones
ported 10 the police that h tenement was engaged i0r
tenement a few times and subsequently there was
funeral II his opinion that no one had died there
Tue undertaken had charge OF the funeral says there
wns y corse in the coffin. The funeral took place at
o'clock on the morning OF November 23 and the burial
was made M the south Catholic Cemetery. certificate
o. death was given by the physician, who stated that
iussen died OF typhoid fever singular fact about ne
case is tnlt the body not carried TO any Catholic
church. ON Thursday last. however,. solemn requiem
mass was celebrated the repose OF I'VE soul OF Charles
Russell
Inc result OF Saturdays hearing before the Grand Jury
was t1ai tue CONN alleged TO contain the body Of Russell
was eIhumed yesterday morning by the sexton Of 81
Marys Church ascertain. presumably II II really con-
tanned body. body was found In the cofn and II was
conveyed 10 undertaking rooms, where All autopsy Was
eld. rue result could be ascertained. The police
are retcent physician who was present states that
traces OF typhoid discovered Another circun-
proving copcusve that the body not that OF
tno person described In the doctors certificate was de-
yelOpc but cannot be dyuged pending the inyesga
ton y the Grand Jury Mr. Brock that he has In
fOraton which he could not give which will prove very
s,aTlDg when dvulgod several persons have been sum
moucL 10 appear before the Grand Jury. The whole
affair shrouded In mystery and furnishes the chief topic
Tor conversation In all circles. A connects the
names OF prominent citizens with this and other
cases OF speculative insurance., and II Is alleged that
ring exists wch Is deeply engaged In the graveyard
business Thousands OF dollars said 10 be Involved