MISTAKEN IDENTITY
EXTRAORDINARY CASE IN DUBBO ~ DEATH OF ELDERLY MAN (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, Bth October. An extraordinary case of mistaken identity occurred at Dubbo. Following the death of an elderly man in a street, four men in the vicinity declared unhesitatingly that the deceased was a local resident named Thomas Moore, aged 75. The body was duly removed to the morgue, where two sons, a daughter and a son-in-law confirmed identification. While the funeral was being arranged to-day a local undertaker was startled to see Thomas 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 be Charles Petersen, aged 73, a shearers’ cook, whose identity was traced by means of a lottery ticket in his pocket.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 9 October 1936, Page 5
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161MISTAKEN IDENTITY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 9 October 1936, Page 5
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