The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-23
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geries.
Keats Cemetery plot.
There is an unmarked grave in the
Crescent Cenietery at Cohoes said to
represent the last resting place OF
a policy holder. 1t is charged, however.
that the box therein contains earth or
iron instead of a corpse. A physicians
certificate and a burial permit were
shown to effect the opening OF the
grave. The plot containing the grave
was rented for two years by a man
named Davis. who said that he had
been sent by Bayliss, and that the in
terment was to I've temporary. Davis
has since gone To Milwaukee to engage
In business.
nnyIiss, it is charged. Invented more
nndertakers I'm tine town of Crescent
,hon there arc citi yens, and more doe
TORS In MnpIewood Than there are vOt-
ers.
The company's suspicious were hrst
aroused bv a letter from Mrs. Mary
Rurns whose husband had a policy at
the time of his death She became i'm
patient at the delay in making settle
ment and wrote direct to h home Of
fee of the company in Newark, saying
that she was tired OF asking Bayllss to
settle the claim.
As a check for $3.50 had been sent
Bayliss to siquidate the claim on the
day the company received notice OF hes
husbands death, an Inspector was sent
to Cohoes to investigate. lie arrived
in Cohoes after banking hours, ana
Ravliss laughed the matter OH. saying
that he would explain it the
morning.
TralIed to Chicago.
At midnight Bayliss left Cohoes with
his wife. Two trunks were
TO Troy, and the detectives who fol-
lowed trailed the pair to Chicago There
the sleuths were thrown off the scent,
and they returned to Cohoes to make an
examination of Bayliss's house.
They found among his effects the
photograph of a woman with a Los
Angeles photographers name on H.
Then they learned from a florist that
shortly before he fed Bayliss or
dered a 800 bouquet sent to the Cah-
fornia oma Following THIS cue,
Chief of Police Adams. of Cphoes, went
to Los Angeles, where he Bay-
liss.
. When the woman learned the truth
ADDul the 0doIlIE 49,
to his wife n offered TO pay her ex-
penses back to Waldwick, where her
family lives. Mrs. Bayliss. however
according to a statement made today
by an official of the insurance COM
pany. is still with her husband.
PrudentiaI' Worst Ssyindle.
The incomplete Investigation has led
The inspectors to believe that letters
addressed to benehciaries of policy
holders apprising them OF settlements
of supposed death claims failed TO
reach their destination.
''The amount of Bayliss's peculation
has not been determined" said Forrest
u. Dryden. second vice. president OF h
company, today. W do not know as
yet how many improper death claims
we lave paid, nor how many of n
certificates received from Bayliss are
forgeries.
sour inspectors are still at work ON
the ease. which is one of the worst with
which we have had to deal. aud until
their report is received we cannot make
a definite statement.
1--WE believe, however, that Bayllss
did not begin his operations until last
June. Since then, we are led to believe,
he has swindled us right and left,
understand tha Bayliss will be extra
dited to New York upon request OF our
investigation department, but do not
know whether he is in Los Angeles now
or en- route to Cohoes.''