THE UNKNOWN DEAD
IDENTITY STILL IN DOUBT. The police compute the number of persons who visited the morgue vestcrday in order to see tlie body of the* man who was found dead in Courtenay place to have exceeded two thousand. Although the deceased is of striking physiognomy, having many ii’.too marks, exceedingly’ short fiinger nails and two extremely large bunions —one on cither groat toe—it is curious that several noople should have “identified” the deceased differently. Several people were of opinion that deceased was a painter who had been. working in Wellington, and another was certain ho had been a hotel rouseabout at Rotorua. The police do not believe the deceased was a rouseabout as he was a sturdily-made man whose muscular development and the sun tan on his face, neck and arms pointed to the fact that he had worked hard at manual labour outdoors. Tho photograph of the dead man published in yesterday’s “Times” led to tho reception by the police of a remarkable number of telegrams from various parts of tho country asking for detailed particulars of the deceased’s appearance. The police up to a late hour last night deemed each “identification” made to be unsatisfactory.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6704, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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199THE UNKNOWN DEAD New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6704, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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