ABSTRACT
Life insurance frauds are matters which for more reasons than one should have a permanent record. They are standing proofs of the caution that should attend the issue of policies, of the necessity for a thorough and satisfactory investigation of every claim, of the justice of resistance, and of the gross impropriety of such legislation as is advocated in Missouri, making the contract absolutely indisputable. For these reasons we have endeavored in this journal to record the prominent features, at least, of every important fraud that is brought to light. The most recent case comes from the backwoods of Pennsylvania. That state has long been a chronic sufferer from irresponsible insurance projects; local mutuals, aid societies, and co-operatives. These, it seems, were used as the instruments, by the band of rustic conspirators, for securing some $10,000 on the life an aged tramp, Raber by name, who was then murdered for the money. The story as told is as follows, the scene of the tragedy being laid at a settlement known as Indian-town Gap, in the heart of the Blue Ridge:
