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Evening Star, Issue 17793, 15 October 1921, Page 10

A strange mistake in identity was made in Paris when a woman was knocked down by a Paris tramcar. , A man rushed forward, shouting “Oh, my poo? wife!” Ho accompanied the police ambulance to the hospital, and sat by the injured woman’s bedside till she died a few hours later. He was so overcome by grief that the hospital authorities sent him homo in a taxicab, accompanied by a policeman, to get the identification papers necessary for a bnrial certificate. At his house the man’s real wife was found waiting for him, very anxious at his long absence. She had missed her husband in the street in the crowd that had gathered after the accident, and had gone home to await his return.