Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — CREPT OUT OF THE GRAVE. [ARTICLE]

CREPT OUT OF THE GRAVE.

Accomplice in an In*nranoo Swindle Tells of the Scheme. In the district court at Fort Scott, Kan., there was filed a confession of Dr. McGuire of Juno, Texas, who was arrested as an accomplice of Dr. Thos. O’Toole of that city in a conspiracy to defraud the Woodmen of the World, the Royal Neighbors and the Modern Woodmen lodges out of SB,OOO life insurance by a mock death and burial in Western Texas, seventy-five miles from a railroad. O’Tolle was reported to have died of smallpox. McGuire corroborated this, but says the grave was dug under a large live oak tree and in a thick growth of underbrush, that while he was filling one end of the grave O’Tolle crawled out under the brush in the other end and got away. Then Cox was dismissedand the two men got away together. McGuire implicates Mrs. O’Tolle In the scheme, saying she met O’Tolle at San Antonio and later reported to the lodge that he was dead. •