Evening star., 1907-10-15
LOVE AND LIFE INSURANCE
QUEER STORY OF A PARIS DON
JUAN NOW DEAD.
Jovial Butcher Flirted and Took Out
Numerous Policies With Equal
Recklessness.


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MARSEILLE, October 15.-An eytraor-
dinary romance of love and life insur-
ance was told in court at Marseille re-
Gently, when Nine. Hispanat, money
lender named Carcassone and an insur-
ance agent named Philippe were charged
With attempting to defraud a dozen in
surance companies of sums totaling
$1,000 by taking out policies on the life
OF Theophile Mile, who was in the last
stage of consumption.
Mile, jovial butcher. died a Year ago
and on his deathbed wrote a letter which
set the law In motion. He seems to have
fascinated almost every woman he met
He was the lover of Nine. Hispanat the
mother of a pretty girl Of sixteen. named
Emily. and yet was the bosom friend of
NJ Hispanat, in whose house he as n
widower. went to live. The lady was so
infatuated that she lent him 5000 and
induced her husband to lend more. Mile
squandered all. AS there had been sew
eral scenes In his shop caused by frate
husbands. Nine. Hispanat and Emily in
stalled themselves at the cash desk to
secure decorum.
The daughter next fell in love with the
butcher. 1t is stated that she made over
lures to him by sending him branch
of mimosa, which means, in the Ian
guage Of flowers, Il am yours" She be-
came violently jealous of her mother
who. however. did not discover the fact
until after Milles death. When her hus-
band was pressing for repayment of his
loan Nine. Hispanat introduced the
butcher TO Carcassone. who agreed to ad-
vance money on life policy. Mile
agreed. and, though he had already been
pronounced a consumptive by three doc
tors. he actually passed the medical ex-
animation of eleven life insurance com
panies, both French and American
twenty two doctors declared him Il
issued in favor of Carcassone and Nine
Hispanat.
Daughter Was Jealous.
Then the jealous girl said to Mile:
''My mother is anxious for you to die, 50
that she can get her money back. NY
darling" she added, don't you drink
any potion which my mother may pre-
pare for you" So infatuated was Emily
that when advised not to drink out of
the same cup Mile she wrote to a
friend: What does 1t matter? / love
him SO that l would drink out of the
same cup with plea even knowing
that in it fingered the germs of death. !"
When at length the butcher and Nine
Hispanat quarreled the girl kept him Sc
cretly informed of all that went on. 'It
is my dearest wish,' she wrote, that
you will soon come and take revenge
upon this woman.
Probably the butcher believed some of
the stories told him, for day or two
before his death he wrote a long letter
to the district attorney setting forth the
circumstances of his life insurance and
of his relations with mother and daugh-
ter. There is little doubt that he acted
in spirit of revenge, for to those
around him he said: only to think that
in few months they will be rolling in
wealth from my policy while l shall be
food for worms. But l don't intend that
they shall enjoy the money"
/ The twenty-five doctors who passed
Mile as a good risk We're called. one
after another, but when asked how they
came to do SO took refuge in profess
sional secrecy. The judge smiled sar-
/ castically A post mortem examination
has shown DO grounds for the poisoning
story,