The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-09-03
A "DEAD NAM" CAUGHT.
Had Defrauded Several Life In
suranoe Companies,
LIVING UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME

After the Case Had Been Appealed 60 tho
Supreme Court, and $4,000 Had Been
Paid to His Executor, the Companies Law
yer Located Him and Caused His Arrest.
DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 3.-Dr Il. H. Fra
ker, of Kansas City, whose family has just
been awarded $4,000 life insurance for his
supposed death, has been found near here.
He left last night for Kansas City, accom-
panied by his captors. The case is one Of
great interest because a reward of $4,000
was offered for his capture.
Fraker is physician, and up to the
latter part of 1893 was physician to the st.
Elmo hotel, the leading hotel in Excelsior
Springs, "a famous health resort near Kan
sas City. The doctor went fishing on the
Missouri Rver one day, and after dark, and
while in company of George Harvey, James
/ Triplett and Jake Crowley, q negro, he
disappeared, and was seen no more. These
parties afterward swore positively that they
witnessed his drowning while rowing in "a
lealIy boat, but after a strict search his
body could not be recovered. Some three
or four months previous he began loading
up with life insurance, taking total Of
S5S,000
Immediately after his disappearance the
Insurance companies held a conference
and discovered that while the DOCTORS in
come was only about 81 800 Il year, his
premiums amounted to $1,000 annually.
Before going on his fishing excursion,
Fraker had drawn all of his money from
the bank, saying he was about going to
California to bring home the orphan chill
dren of his deceased uncle, OF the insur-
al IL b.. l.
brother-in-law in trust for these children.
DR.. Fraller, who had practiced medicine
for eight years, was an active leader in
Sunday school work, but held rather pecul-
lar views on religious subjects.
After thorough investigation all the com
panies except the Equitable refused to pay
the claims, whereupon james E. Lincoln,
the executor of the WILL brought suit in
the district court at Liberty, Mo. which
was afterwards transferred to the United
States circuit court at Kansas City Rob
ert Herrick was appointed jointly to con
duct the case for the companies, and was
assisted by eminent legal talent In the
latter part of 1894, after very sensational
trial, lasting two weeks in December, 1894,
the jury acting under positive instructions
from the court declared for the defense
A new trial was granted on technical
points, but in February, 1895, judgment
was given for the full amount and a stay
of execution granted for six months, until
Aug. 10, 1895 On that date the full
amount was paid to the executor, and the
companies withdrew their offer of $200OC
reward.
Herrick obtained clew in the latter
part of 1894, which he has patiently fol
lowed ever since, until about week age
he learned the whereabouts and the as
sumed name of the doctor. Thursday night
he arrived in Tower, together with Johr
Wilkinson, chief of police in Topeka, tt
assist in taking Fraker back. They learned
that DR.. Fraker went by the name o
Schnell, and lived with a young man in {
woodman's hut twenty three miles from
Tower, on the Itasco county road. A war
rant was secured in Tower, and, accom-
panied by Deputy Sheriff Archie Phillip
they started for the place.
About twelve miles from Tower Phillip
who was acquainted with Fraker unde
the alias of Schnell, saw his companion il
a shanty near the woods, and on inquirins
, where the doctor was learned that Frake
= was out hunting. The young man wa
l. handcuffed and bound, and Phillip ant
/, the others proceeded on the road. Abou
=
D on his shoulder who was instantly recog
nized as the supposed dead man. Fraker
! Herrick engaged him in conversation
= when suddenly Phillip seized his arms
4 and Wilkinson put on handouts.
Fraker thought he had been arrested 70
d killing game out of season. as Phillip wa
also a game warden. When the warran
was read to him he was thunderstruck
Y but admitted his identity. He was brough
to town, together with his companion, VIII
J. halls from Wisconsin and seems to be a.
innocent party. The latter was released
- but Fraker has gone to stand trial
" Fraker stated that he had expected hi
2 relatives to get n portion of the insuranc
money and himself some also, He ha
d been greatly benefited, he said, by th
Z waters of spring where he stopped, an
had about made arrangements to buy th
y place, intending to make it water cu
resort. He yould have spent $4,000, /
e said, in improving the place
- The penalty for DIR. Fraker's fraud
!, seven years in the penitentiary ON eac
a. count, and there will be five counts in I'll
- indictments 'hich will be brought again
el him. Crowley, Triplet and Harvey, VIII
0. swore they saw DR.. Fraker drown, will
arrested on the charge of perjury, and SUI
BY will be begun at once against the heirs
J., recover the insurance money paid them.
An IndlhIs Big Property Claim.
y KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept 3.-R. r. Dul
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