Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1909 — Suicided To Secure Money With Which Family Might Live. [ARTICLE]

Suicided To Secure Money With Which Family Might Live.

A story of devotion that led to suicide comes from Frankfort, Ind., where George W. Benjamin took his life on October 14th in order that his family might collect his $20,000 in life insurance. Benjamin had at one time been wealthy but he had lost extensively on board of trade operations and was finally about to be evicted from his home. He inquired if life insurance could be collected if a man suicided and being assured that It was collectable, he wrote a long letter to his wife explaining details 6f his business and then went to his room and buried hisNace in a sponge saturated with chloroform. An hour before he committed the deed he assured his wife that he had made all arrangements for the settlement of his debts but he did not intimate how the money was to be procured. The insurance will all be paid as he had carried it beyond the suicide clause requirement!. The easiest thing to see is why a woman thinks she has pretty ankles.