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CHICAGO TRIBUNE PRESS SERVICE CHICAGO, Sept. IS—A settlement under which a young woman in Paris, France, will get $7,000 of the $10,000 G.I. insur ance of Walter E. Bond, a Chicago salesman, 9 announced in federal district court here Tuesday. The remaining $3,000 will go to Bond's widow. The woman Miss Germaine Pesant, on whose doorstep at 160 Rue Lauriston, Paris, Bond was shot and killed March 27, 107. After its discharge as an Army captain in 1946, Bong had made Miss Pesant the beneficiary of his insurance. The widely, Mra. Mary Ann Bond, 86, who had been the original beneficiary, sued for the full 310,000. 4 Bond returned home after the war and became a salesman for a New York firm. He made business trips to Paris. The transcript of minutes of a French trial included testimony that Bond was trying to break into Miss Pesant's apartment when he was shot by Victor Jean Armand Jorquenot de Fortelle, who was freed on an involuntary comic charge. The transcript did not explain why Bond was “pounding and kicking’ the door. It said he “twisted his (Fortelle’s) wrist in such condition that the revolver functioned, wounding Mr. Bond fatally, Mrs. Bond's suit had charged that her b had lived = Fesant, who had used undue influence in getting herself named insurance beneficiary. Attorneys said they be lieve the girl had visited Bond in New York after the war, Mrs. Bond, who was reported in Colorado with her seven year-old son, was represented by Attorney John B. King. After the agreement was announced, District Judge William J. Camp bell continues the case to Sept. 25, when he will sign powers to be drawn up by King and Norman A. Miller, attorney for agress in 2014 amended the national service insurance law wirle that beneficiaries do not have to be relatives of the
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Wed, Sep 19, 1951
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