CORPSE IN A BOX.
AUCTION SALE INCIDENT, E. Betts bought a trunk at an unclaimed baggage sale in Vancouver, and with it a corpse; but he did not know that at the time. He paid £3 for the trunk, and, opening it, found inside a well-made wooden casket. Inside the casket was a tin box. He opened the tin, and the dead body of a Chinese fell out. Apparently it had been embalmed. The police declare that the dead man had been prepared for shipment back to the land of his Celestial forefathers, but how he came to be in the unclaimed luggage is the mvsterv they are trying to solve. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 22
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111CORPSE IN A BOX. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 22
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