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July 19, 1897
San Antonio Daily Light
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
What is this article about?
W.D. Robinson consults New York insurance officials about a conspiracy in Kemper County, Mississippi, to defraud companies by insuring invalids and poisoning some to death. Estimates: 100 policies, 30 disease deaths, 12 poisonings, $75,000 cleared. Mentions Dr. W.H. Lipscomb and Guy Jack involved in related murders.
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INSURANCE
CONSPIRACIES.
Wholesale Fraud to Which Murder is
Sometimes Added.
New York, July 19.-The Journal and
Advertiser says:
W. D. Robinson, of Meridian, Miss.,
has been in the city several days in
consultation with the officials of some
of the principal life insurance com-
panies. His object is to bring to light
the facts in a conspiracy to defraud
insurance companies by insuring in-
valids and decrepit, and where disease
failed, to hasten death of the victims
by means of poison.
The scene of the conspiracy is said
to be laid in Kemper county, Miss.
Mr. Robinson's estimates of the oper-
ations of the conspirators given after
conference with the New York Mutual
Reserve, the New York Life, the Equit-
able and the Mutual Benefit of New
York, is as follows:
"Policies in which the members ap-
peared as beneficiaries, 100; number
who died of disease. 30: number who
died by poison. 12: number whose lives
were attempted, 15: policies now can-
celled, 60: amount cleared and divided
by the plotters, $75,000; still to be paid
and divided, $15,000."
In this connection the Journal and
Advertiser reviews the operations of
Dr. W. H. Lipscomb. of Scooba. Miss.,
now under sentence of death for the
murder of C. T. Stewart; Guy Jack, a
Mississippi merchant, indicted for mur-
der by the grand jury and out on bail:
affirming that the ramifications of the
conspiracy in the south are practically
endless.
CONSPIRACIES.
Wholesale Fraud to Which Murder is
Sometimes Added.
New York, July 19.-The Journal and
Advertiser says:
W. D. Robinson, of Meridian, Miss.,
has been in the city several days in
consultation with the officials of some
of the principal life insurance com-
panies. His object is to bring to light
the facts in a conspiracy to defraud
insurance companies by insuring in-
valids and decrepit, and where disease
failed, to hasten death of the victims
by means of poison.
The scene of the conspiracy is said
to be laid in Kemper county, Miss.
Mr. Robinson's estimates of the oper-
ations of the conspirators given after
conference with the New York Mutual
Reserve, the New York Life, the Equit-
able and the Mutual Benefit of New
York, is as follows:
"Policies in which the members ap-
peared as beneficiaries, 100; number
who died of disease. 30: number who
died by poison. 12: number whose lives
were attempted, 15: policies now can-
celled, 60: amount cleared and divided
by the plotters, $75,000; still to be paid
and divided, $15,000."
In this connection the Journal and
Advertiser reviews the operations of
Dr. W. H. Lipscomb. of Scooba. Miss.,
now under sentence of death for the
murder of C. T. Stewart; Guy Jack, a
Mississippi merchant, indicted for mur-
der by the grand jury and out on bail:
affirming that the ramifications of the
conspiracy in the south are practically
endless.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime Story
Deception Fraud
What themes does it cover?
Crime Punishment
Deception
What keywords are associated?
Insurance Fraud
Conspiracy
Poison Murder
Life Insurance
Kemper County
What entities or persons were involved?
W. D. Robinson
Dr. W. H. Lipscomb
Guy Jack
C. T. Stewart
Where did it happen?
Kemper County, Miss.
Story Details
Key Persons
W. D. Robinson
Dr. W. H. Lipscomb
Guy Jack
C. T. Stewart
Location
Kemper County, Miss.
Event Date
July 19
Story Details
Conspiracy to defraud insurance companies by insuring invalids and using poison to hasten deaths in Kemper County, Mississippi; estimates include 100 policies, 12 poison deaths, $75,000 cleared; involves figures like Dr. Lipscomb sentenced for murder and Guy Jack indicted.