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charged TO the policy holders on each re-
spectixe risk from the date of the issue of

charged TO the policy holders on each re-
spective risk from the date of the issue of
the policy.
George A. Lohmann. a wealthy business
man of Wilkesbarre, Pa. committed suicide
by drowning Jan. IS. He carried $4,000 in
rounding. the case show that he ended his
life so that his family might thus benefit
Lohmann Intimately for ten years said:
This case represents an interesting study
from a medical standpoint. All physicians
know of the many peculiar forms OF insan-
lty which sometimes are the causes of
suicide. but this is the first case of self
that l believe has ever occurred.
was a plain, matter-of-fact business man.
features beyond a profound love for his wife
and children and deep religious convictions.
/ am afraid that unless the insurance COM
panieS use the utmost discretion in issuing
policies for large amounts the growth of
this insurance mania and consequent self
a amons bnains WI mere ee d alaTnih Times es af hs,si.
ness depression, when by living they must
struggle on. while by dying they may make
their loved ones rich"
Sarah Silbermeister has been sentenced
by Recorder Golf, of New York, to twenty
five years Imprisonment in Sing Sing for
arson, and q confederate named Louis Rot
man was sentenced TO fifteen years impris-
onment for the same offense. These two in
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many tenement houses to obtain insurance
money. Both made confessions duplicating
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who has fled. The authorities connected
Will the prosecution of these arson cases
say that three or four other public fire adj
~Justers are implicated in the confessions of
the man and woman. Assistant District At
torney Vernon NJ. Davis said of this case,
to which SO much public interest attaches:
The gang of which Rothman, Gottlieb and
Mrs. Silbermeister were the principle mem
bers was composed of the scum of the East
Side. They would start a fire in a crowded
tenement in the middle of the night for
$50. and take the chances of spending the
rest of their lives in prison. Not only were
fires started in New York city. but other
cities in different parts of the country were
visited, and suffered at the hands of the
gang. Sometimes 1t was done for plumber,
but in the majority of cases for insurance
money. During the trial of Mrs. S.lber-
meister it came out that for one fire in her
allowed her 1856 for the loss of her furniture,
which certainly was not worth more than
500. Grauer adjusted the claim and kept
$256 of the money. Mrs. told
me that when she told Grauer she intended
returning to Odessa with her husband and
children Grauer pleaded with her to remain
here. telling her she could make lots of
money. The evidence Fire. Marshal Mitchell
has obtained regarding this gang is arnaz-
sorts of tales regarding criminal depravity,
/ never heard anything that equals
the story of the operation of this
gang. Besides the confessions of
Mrs. Si~lberfneister. Rothman and Gottlieb,
Mr.. Mitchell has obtained the confession
of three other persons, who admit they
were employed by certain fire adjusters to
lindle fires. Although these men are not
in actual custody they are closely watched.