The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-01

He was afterward convicted of the
murder of Georgianna Lowering, aged
| fourteen years, grandchild of his sister.
He then confessed to another murder,
that of the daughter of Mr.. Mills of
| Kerry in 1885, and in Jail wrote a letter
to the insurance company detailing the
scheme he had devised to rob them.
DR. Palmer, a man as highly versed
in law as medicine, was the first of
modern murderers to use strychnine as
a poison, and many lives were sacri-
feed for the purpose of securing insur-
, ance money. His own mother and sis
ter were the first known victims. His
stable boy left him on account Of his
health and friend, Ben Hogg, to
whom he owed money, fled in fear.
His holiness increased, owing to sue
cess attending every former case, and
finally he gave the poison openly as
medicine His last victim, Cook, who
died in great agony, brought Palmer to
the scaffold, when his hanging was
witnessed by fifty thousand persons in
London. Charles Mccormick in 1870
secured insurance on his life and pre-
tended drowning soon after, selecting
the river st. Lawrence for the exploit
No insurance was collected
In 1871 an attempt was made to make
it appear that Darius Greene had been
consumed in the great fire, with the in
tent to obtain five thousand dollars
carried on his life by his wife. The at
tempt. however, proved abortive, as
the insurance company, through Cap
tain of Police Peter " Cool of Bloom
ington, H., discovered the living Dari-
us Greene.
One of the most carefully prepared
plans to obtain insurance was that Of
Captain Colvocoresses, a distinguished
retired officer of the United States
navy. Late on the night of June 8,
1872 the captain was found dead in
Bridgeport, Conn, apparently brutally
murdered. Investigation revealed the
startling fact that it was a case of long
premeditated suicide, the object being
to obtain for his family two hundred
thousand dollars from various life in
suranee companies. The case of Lee
was somewhat similar. Fox insured
John Clark Lee who died in New York
in 1872. The effort of Fox to collect
twenty thousand dollars insurance on
Lees death divulged that Lee was
specially prepared for medical exam
nation being kept from drink some
time previous to effecting the insur-
ance. After this was accomplished
Fox aided Lee in every way to drink
himself to death.
Two young men, Winner and McNutt !
Of Kansas City, in 1878, conceived the
idea of insuring the latter for five
thousand dollars To legalize the poll
cy McNutt married a woman and re-
moved to Wichita. Winner left Nc
Mutt in Wichita and returned to Kan
sas City for the deliberate purpose of
some young man who phys
ically favored McNutt into his conf
dence and then numbering him for the |
five thousand dollars insurance. He |
appears to have revealed his plot to |
McNutts wife, who was living in Kan
sas City. The woman wrote frenzied |
letter to her husband in Wichita. beg
sing him to abandon the plot and Of
fering to sell all she had If he would |
but give up the companionship of Win
ner This letter was intercepted by the
and furnished the necessa-
~ clews to their discovery and convic-
ton. 1t was learned that young
nan named Sewers was induced to ac-
company Winner to Wichita. There
he was intoxicated with brandy and
lrugged with ether. Cords were bound
lightly around his body, his clothing
saturated with kerosene, and the paint
shop, where the deed was enacted. set
IN fire. His remains were found
among the embers and were at first
to be those of McNutt. Win
Ter reported they had been attacked in
he night, McNutt killed and the shop
burned.
Or. Henry c. Meyer was one of the
most remarkable men in the annals of
rhine. He made a business of insuring
,eople's lives, then poisoning his vic
ime 10 simulate by it's effects the
of dysentery. He insured a
man named Brandt, under
he name of &c. H. j. Baum for
ighty-fve hundred dollars in favor of \
Irs Meyer. Brandt was given small ,
oses of tartarized antimony to pro-
uce the effect of symptoms of dysen- !
cry. Brandt was kept suffering for a
Dng while. He consulted a physician.
lho pronounced his complaint "chron-
: dysentery." Meyer finally took pity \