“Dead Man” Turns Up at His Funeral
EXTRAORDINARY CAKE OP MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 1 a.m. SYDNEY, Oct. 8. An extraordinary case of mistaken identity occurred at Dubbo. [Following the death of an elderly man in the street four men in the vicinity declared unhesitatingly that the deceased was a local resident, Thomas Moore, aged 75. The body was duly removed to tho morgue where two sons, a daughter and a son-in-law confirmed? the identification. While the funeral was being arranged to-day the local undertaker was startled to see Tnomas Moore standing outside the Post Office. 'The undertaker hurriedly returned to the funeral parlour with the intention of breaking the news to Moore’s relatives when he learned that Moore’s son, who also had discovered that his father was alive, had actually been talking to him. The dead man turned out to ho Charles Peterson, aged 73, a shearer’s cook, whose identity was traced by means of a lottery ticket in his pocket.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 239, 9 October 1936, Page 7
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