The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-09-05

his grave. and as / turned away
wiped the tears from my eyes-havlnc
almost learned 10 love the man. With
in the year that followed noticed in
the papers that three good-slzcd poll
ides had been paid IA different sec
lions Of the country, the prompt pay.
ment Of which had helped 10 make the.
Insurance business unusually good
One very hot day on lower Broadway
: was astonishcd 70 meet e man so
strikingly like Livingstone 5hat fall
tered for a moment, then passed Oh
with the thought Of how foolish TO
think Of such g thing. Between that
!me and early fan / met this same
ican several times, and finally I could
rot resist the temptation of stopping
/ him and saying: You are so much
like o friend of mine that the likeness
haunts me. Is your name Living
stone?' "Oh, no" he replied, and re-
marked that people often resembled
each other. I said: IF you had san
dy hair and no mustache could swear
you were Livingstone" He replied:
But I have brown hair and a brown
mustache" We then passed on.
My feelings compelled me to relate
this circumstance to- the manager OF
the company and he then showed ma
a letter from the agent in st. Law
renee county, who wrote that he was
sure he had seen Livingstone in dis
guise in his town. The manager re-
| quested me to 90 into st. Lawrence
county and investigate, which l did
/ When l reached the county the agent
/ pointed out to me my friend of lower
/ Broadway, who | thought he'd not
/ seen me. l kept my eye upon him for
the rest of the day, and had the pleas
ure of seeing him cross. over into Can
ada, since which time he has not been
seen.
Going back to the home company
was requested to go with one Of the
best detectives that they could en-
ploy, to the town where Livingstone
had been buried, and Investigate the
matter. We found the grave of Liv-
ingstone in as perfect condition as
when | had placed the wreath on it
some two years before. Not being sat
isfied with this we went with a letter
to the undertaker-which we claimed
to be an order from Mrs. Livingstone
to have him exhume the body and move
it elsewhere for burial. He went with
us to the grave and we saw it opened.
The coffin was seemingly intact as
when placed there. We then told the
undertaken the truth regarding the
matter, and he declined to proceed fur
Their with the work. We finally in
duced him to remove the cover from
the upper part of the coffin, with the
result that the body was not there
the coffin was empty
If it had not been that both the UNI.
dertallsr and myself were present at
the burial nothing could have con-
vinced us but that an empty coffin had
been placed in the ground. The re-
suit prompted us to, remove the coffin.
from the grave, and on so doing We
found that the bottom of it was gone,
and ia digging downward we came to-
the top of brick. sewer which passed
beneath the grave. Evidently these
parties had calculated we'll, and were
ready in the sewer to commence dig
ging upward as soon as The earth be-
gan to fall into the grave from above!
Investigation proved that this sewer
was being constructed at the very tins
when Livingstone was buried. His
comatose state must have been either
aided by the physician or was SO per-
feet as to deceive him, as it did the un-
Gertaker. We all remembered that at
at time of his burial his wife positively
refused to have the body embalmed
or put on ice, nor would she allow any
one to go where the body was unless
she or Mr.. White was present, and
this fastened the burial
Later investigation showed that
these same parties lad collected within
the past two years four policies, using
. much the same methods-none OF
which were Investigated, as the com
Z panies considered it wiser to accept
/ their losses and continue in a prciita,
Y Die BUSINESS undismrbed than to sth
D up trouble.
e Since that time I have investigated
t and adjusted many claims for fnsur
e ance companies, and my experience
gained in these cases has aided me il
+ preventing the collecting Of many I'm
e just claims against the companies; bu
r never in all my IS years of experience
n in the insurance business have 1 me
= four so expert in fraudulent practice
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