The Archive · 1936

Bag Thrown Overboard

Police further alleged that he defrauded the Manila branch of the Prudential Insurance Ca., of $2,000 by a similar method, and to hava mulcted in December' Jast year the Tokyo Marine Insurance Ca,, of ¥.800, which he collected after" throwing overboard from the s. Kamo Maru a bag be had Insured with the Tokyo He is charged by police with hav-claimed that the bag contained valuables when it was empty. collect the insurance, Solomon is said to have secured a certificate, vouching for the disappearance the bag, from the captain of the Kamo Mar.

Returning to Shanghai in January this year, Solomon is alleged by the authorities to have defrauded the Tokyo branch of the Home Insur ance Ca, of New York, of ¥.1,200 and to have approached the insur~ one firm of C.E. Sparke in Shang hai with a false claim for a dia mond ring, insured with the ¢on-corn, stating that he had lost {¢ in Asakusa Park in Tokyo—Domel,

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