the Supreme Court, another local dentist was committed to trial in Magistrates' Court yesterday for allegedly bilking an insurance company of more than $2,000.

Jerome (Clark) Godwin of Pembroke will be tried on June 2 after pleading "absolutely not guilty'' to four counts of defrauding the Somers Isles Insurance Company Ltd. by submitting false dental claims.

The claims, which were sent in between June 1989 and February 1991, were said to be in the amount of $700, $247, $481 and $747.80 respectively.

The dentist, who ran as a Progressive Labour Party candidate for the House of Assembly in the last General Election, told the court that he would be representing himself. He was released on $1,000 bail.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis said that he would be presiding over the case.

On Tuesday, 17 fraud charges against Dr. Vincent Bridgewater were dropped after Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Wade declared the prosecution's evidence in the case was of "a tenuous character''.

Dr. Bridgewater was accused of defrauding the BF&M Life Insurance Company of $40,000 between 1989 and 1991.