THRICE REPORTED DEAD.
AUCKLAND WATERSIDE WORKER. AUCKLAND, February 15. The wife of Edward C. Barrett, waterside worker, was called on by a constable in uniform on Saturday morning and informed that her husband had died in the hospital. As Barrett had left for work in the best of health a few hours before. Mrs Barrett assumed that he had been the victim of an accident on the wharf, but the constable, on communicating with the hospital further, learned that a mistake had been made, the man who died in the hospital annexe and the living Barrett having the same surname. Barrett, on arriving home, regarded the affair as a joke, except for the alarm caused his wife, saying that this was the third time he had been erroneously reported dead.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 36
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130THRICE REPORTED DEAD. Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 36
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