The Press., 1893-09-21
CONSPIRATORS BAFFLED.

CONSPIRATORS BAFFLED.
 The following from Philadelphia pa- per is not alone interesting as an incident, but has local interest because of MT. Gary's being Stafford Springs boy, whose brothers are now in business here, and who holds very responsible position with the insurance company named, po- sition earned by long and faithful service:
 civilian B. Gregg, of Duluth, Minn., made application to the Fidelity Mutual Life Association June 15, 1893, for $2, 900. insurance. It now appears that on June 20 he applied to the Mutual Life Insur- ance Company for $5,000, and July ap- piled to the United States Mutual Acci- dent Association for $5,000, and also ob- tained policy for $2, 900 from the North western Mutual Life, of Milwaukee. The policy issued by the Fidelity Mutual Life Association was the first, and the amount being small and the application being per fectly clean, the applicant having stood first-class examination by Dr. Charles B. Pillsbury, of Duluth, Minn., there was nothing to arouse suspicion.
 July 21st the newspapers of Duluth and associated press dispatches gave vivid account of the supposed drowning in Lakc Superior of William B. Gregg. It was stated that he, in company with one J. T. Clark, of Duluth, went out in small boat on Lake Superior July 20th. They started at about 10 o'clock in the morning from point known as Lakeside, which is about six miles down the north shore from Du- luth. They started to cross the lake to the Wisconsin side on a pleasure trip. At about 4 o'clock the following morning Clark arrived at the home of Frederick E.
 Kreyenbuhl, brother-in-law of the insured, William B. Gregg, in an exhausted condi- | tion, claiming that the boat had upset the day before, after they had been out but a
 few hours; that Gregg had drowned, and
 that he (Clark) had been floating about
 with the boat all the time since, the boat
 upset until he had finally washed ashore.
 Several witnesses testified that they saw
 Gregg and Clark go out in the boat, and
 a physician gave testimony that to the ef- feet that Clark, on the morning of July | 21, was in much exhausted condition {;
 that his breast was sore and bruised from
 the action of the boat in his effort to cling
 to it, and up to this point a clean case of drowning was made out. Clark told a straightforward story in every particular. His statement, however, in regard to q
 squall and the direction of the wind did not entirely correspond with the signal
 service records; and this fact, together
 with the impossibility of man surviving
 a wreck lasting over ten hours in the wa
 ters of Lake Superior, led to the suspicion
 that all was not right. Each of the in
 surance companies interested made an in
 dependent investigation.
 President l.. G. Fouse, of the Fidelity
 Mutual Life Association, became convinced that the proper place to begin was to in
 vestigate the character and standing of the parties involved in the alleged drown ing. To this end he delegated Inspector w. E. Gary to proceed to the native placc
 of Gregg, to make a thorough investiga- tion among his old friends and acquaint-
 ances. It did not take him long to dis cover that while nothing was known against Gregg in Duluth, that in St. Paul
 he had an unsavory reputaton. He was formerly a clerk in the employ of the
 Northern Pacific Railway, and was dis charged because of drunkenness and cru l h;c Fa,, Nuifa tho hon. eficiary under the policy issued by the Fi- delity Mutual Life Association.
 The other policies were made payable f to Frederick E. Kreyenbuhl as creditor. f. While the public generally did not know , anything against the brother-in-law, Krey- enbuhl, and Clark, MT. Gary soon became s convinced that the drowning was fake and that Gregg, Kreyenbuhl and Clark , had tried to defraud the insurance com. panies. Several detective agencies were s employed to locate Gregg. So well was , the plot planned that all efforts to unrave n it and locate Gregg proved of no avail V Just here the representative of the Fidel : ity Mutual Life, MT. Gary, did some clever a detective work. He secured what was tC ,. him indisputable evidence that Gregg wa: n alive, and he used it with telling effec
 upon one of the conspirators, whicf F. enabled him to locate Gregg in New Yorl '. City, where he was captured, and brough l. to Philadelphia, where he is now under q arrest awaiting the arrival of extraditior q papers from Minnesota.
 The arrest was made by Detective: a Donaghy and Hamm, at the request O Q the Fidelity Mutual Life Association, ant = on affidavit made by Gustave Frank, O
 the United States Mutual Accident Asso
 citation. Clark, who was with Gregg il
 the boat and who swore to the drowning } is also under arrest in this city, and vii r be taken with Gregg to Duluth, Minn The companies telegraphed on Monday t
 Duluth to have Frederick E. Kreyenbuhl of Duluth, the brother-in-law of Gregg
 and who is alleged to be one~ of the con
 spirators, arrested, which was done." 1 SPECIMEN CAsEs.-S. H. Clifford, Ne, - CoeoaI Wio xuoc frouhlad yuith Iori