COFFIN OPENED AT THE GRAVESIDE.
A romai-kablo funeral hitch occurred on New Year's Day at Hobden Bridge,- Yorkshire, parish church. Tho funeral of a woman named Sarah Peel, who had died in file Wakefioid Asylum, wa3 in progress. When the coffin arrived and the buriaT certificate was presented, the vicar, the Rev. S. M. Smith, observed that the name written thereon was that of Harriot Ann Shoesmith. Tho clergyman and the mourners both feared that tho body might also bo a wrong one, so it was decided to open tho coffin. When this was done, however, the lolatives had no hesitation in declaring that tho body was tho right one. A form of idontity was signed by sovcral of tho relatives, after which the interment took place. The mourners had been delayed two hours.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 12
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