The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-06

wonder if the second payment would be made on that policy and l gain my commission. This anxiety proved to be needless, for at the proper time the company notified me that the payment had been made and I received my share of it.
 About five months later the company received a telegram from the state of Massachusetts, where MT. Livingstone had moved, informing them of his death. They immediately requested me to go there and investigate the matter and report to them, as they wished to pay the loss as soon as possible if all were right, for the sake of the benefit which was sure to come to them by the payment of so large a policy.
 l went to the town in Massachusetts, where l saw MT. Livingstone in his coffin, and I attended his funeral. These facts 1 telegraphed to the com pany and they immediately made prep arations to pay the loss from the Bos ton otfice-Where I went with the Wid ow and MT. and Mrs White.
 The whole matter was given the greatest prominence in the New Eng land papers; and I remained in the New England territory for several weeks helping the local agents, who were glad to divide with me for the good work which I did for them. Be- fore leaving the state I visited the town where MT Livingstone died and placed some flowers and a wreath on his grave, and as I turned away wiped the tears from my eyes-having almost learned to love the man. With in the year that followed l noticed in the papers that three good-sized poli- cies had been paid in different sections of the country, the prompt payment of which had helped to make the tnsur- ance business unusually good.
 One very hot day on lower Broadway was astonished to meet a man so strikingly like Livingstone that 1 fal- tered for a moment, then passed on with the thought of how foolish to think of such thing. Between that time and early fall l met this same man several times. and finally l could not resist the temptation of stopping him and saying: You are so much like a friend of mine that the likeness
 
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 My feelings compelled me to relate this circumstance to the manager of the company, and he then showed me a letter from the agent in St. Lawrence who wrote that he was sure he had seen Livingstone in disguise in his town. The manager requested me to go into St. Lawrence county and investi- gate, which I did When I reached the the agent pointed out to me my friend of lower Broadway, who l thought had not seen me. l kept my eve upon him for the rest of the day, and had the pleasure of seeing him cross over into Canada, since which time he has not been seen.
 Going back to the home company l was requested to go with one of the best detectives that they could employ, to the town where Livingstone had been buried. and investigate the matter. We found the grave of Livingstone in as perfect condition as when l had n1aced the wreath on it some two years before. Not being satisfied with this' we went with a letter to the underta- ked-which we claimed to be an order from Mrs. Livingstone to have him eX- hume the body and move it elsewhere for burial. He went with us to the grave and we saw it opened The cof1n was seemingly intact as when placed there. We then told the undertaken the truth regarding the matter, and he de ,lined to proceed further with the | work. We finally induced him to re- move the cover from the upper part of | he coffin. with the result that the body | vas not there-the coffin was empty.
 If it had not been that both the uh- lertaker and myself were present at he burial nothing could have con ,inced us but that an empty coffin had een placed in the ground The result rompted us to remove the coffin from he grave, and on so doing we found hat the bottom of it was gone, and In .igging downward we came to the top f a brick sewer which passed beneath he grave. Evidently these parties had alculated well, and were ready in the ever to commence digging upward to emove Livingstone from the coffin as oon as the earth began to fall into the crave from above, Investigation ,roved that this sewer was being con tructed at the very time when Living tone was buried. His comatose state must have been either aided by the physician or was so perfect as to de- eive him, as it did the undertaken. We all remembered that at the time of lis burial his wife positively refused Q have the body embalmed or put on