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Thursday, August 27, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Insurance murder case goes on
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The plaintiff New England Mutual Life Insurance Co was expected to call its final witness and rest its case today in a lawsuit it brought seeking to void an insurance policy issued more than four years ago to Martin K. Anderson, the victim of an unsolved Kansas murder.
The company summoned its sixth and seventh witnesses yesterday, but its last witness was not available.
So, the defense began presenting evidence that it hoped would persuade a federal court jury of five men and three women that Anderson himself bought the insurance policy several months before his death, and if his wife was involved in a plot to kill him it is immaterial to the validity of the policy.
Lorna Anderson Eldridge declined in a statement she gave New England Mutual two years ago to discuss Anderson's death, but confirmed she had discussed having him killed when she pleaded guilty to soliciting his death.
Lorna Eldridge will not testify in the case to determine whether the company must pay off on an insurance policy Anderson bought in the spring of 1983, six months before he was killed.
However, statements she gave to the company and to the court in August 1985 were read into the record of the trial yesterday, the second day of testimony in a case that will determine if New England Mutual must pay proceeds to four Anderson children.
In a deposition given to the company when she made claim for the proceeds to be paid to her, Lorna Eldridge declined to answer any questions about Anderson's death, saying it might tend to incriminate her.
However, in transcripts of the proceedings when she pleaded guilty to two counts of solicitation in connection with Anderson's death, Lorna Eldridge confirmed she met with Thomas Bird, a former Emporia minister, and Darrell and Dan Carter, two Emporia brothers, on several occasions in 1893 to discuss ways to kill her husband so she could marry Bird, her lover.
She said in those pleadings that she agreed to give Dan Carter, who then lived in Emporia, $5,000 to be paid to another man who had agreed to find someone who would kill Anderson. She said in that statement that Bird gave her the $5,000. The plot never materialized, other testimony has shown.
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Geary County Sheriff William Deppish testified Tuesday that Lorna Anderson told him the night of her husband's death that Bird was the man in a ski mask who shot Anderson to death in a field south of Manhattan in November 1983.
However, his testimony has not been corroborated by any other witnesses at this trial, and Bird has never been charged with Anderson's death. Lorna Eldridge was charged with murder earlier this year. No trial has been scheduled.
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