"Dead Man Alive!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 29 August 1923, Page 6

"Dead Man Alive!"

CASE O.F WISTA.KJEN IDENTITY.

TWIPE .REAPS OWN (^I,TUARY.

-Per P?ess Association Napier, August 29

.Pepd man .frpm jWangjanui iiiat a lpn whose: body had been found floating in the ■Wanganui river had been after careful inquiry identified a s tErnest dall, a man who left Auckland for Wanganui early iin June. The dead man happens to be in Napier at the .present, mtmient, and when he interviewed a .Telgraph rpporter this .morning ,ho ]look.ed far .frpm being dead. , ■" ' Mr Randall stated that .he intended .going ,to .W.anganui at <the time ' in question, .but oliangod his mind at 1 the last minute, and came to Napier.

"Thjs j.s.the second .time I have been reported dead and J. don't like it!" .Randall, .The jfirst occasion was (when the Marquette went ,dqwja ,in (the Mediterranean. He was t in a boat with ten ,&u<:.vjvp l rs, anis •when he .landed after many days pjrivataon the was just in ''i'me to ata jinemqrial : service to himself. ...Mr rßandall ,h&i a ..few friends in' Auckland, and cjSfpnoL understand how the dead man could be identified as himself.