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1 Hillmon Insurance Case: Briefs 1900

handle is hein.trials/aaya0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. HARTFORD, July 13, 1903. To our Agents:. You will be glad to know that the famous Hillmon case is ended in a complete victory for the Company. The main facts are briefly stated in the following item from the Hart- ford Courant of July 3, 1903: FAMOUS INSURANCE CASE. THE HILLMON CLAIM AT LAST SURRENDERED. Mrs. Sallie Hillmon-Smith Abandons Her Suit Against the Connecticut Mutual Life. One of the most notorious attempts to defraud a life insurance company ever undertaken has come to a sudden end in the dismissal of the suit against the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company brought by Sallie E. Hillmon (now Smith) to recover $5,ooo on the life of her husband, John W. Hillmon. On March 4, 1879, Hillmon insured his life for that amount in the Con- necticut Mutual, and about the same time insured for $io,ooo each in the Mutual Life of New York, and the New York Life. It afterwards trans- pired that he had no means whatever of paying for these insurances beyond the first premium. He and his partner had already formed a plan to realize at once upon these policies. On pretense of owning a large stock ranch in a distant county, they hired a young man named Walters to go with them as an employee. On the 24th day of March, near Medicine Lodge, Kan., Hillmon shot Walters through the head, put some of his clothes on the corpse, put his diary in Walter's pocket and disappeared. His partner waited until morning, went for help, reported that Hillmon had accidentally shot himself, buried the body, went back to Lawrence and reported Hilimon dead and buried. Suspicious circumstances led to the disinterment of the body; and, as the face was uncovered, the first word spoken was the exclamation by one who knew Hillmon well-'Oh, hell,

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