A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12468, 18 February 1909, Page 2

A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

• It is stated by the police that a mistake has arisen in the list of, identifications, in which, the" name of.* J. Bates appears. No body was identified under : that name, and the. Union Company have no record of such- a passenger. This name was inserted m the list of drowned when the iden.tification was reported, so ..''.that it should now be . deleted and the death roll reduced to 74. ' It has 'been "proved beyond doubt that a 'supposed victim named Felix Woodward is hot dead/ but on the contrary hfi.s communicated with" friends in Wellington,, by post -.from Taihape, since the Penguin's wreck. The information given to tl%Uniqri Company ; resulted in- a cable being sent to a Mr Woodward, alleged to be the victim's father in" Tasmania, but Mr Woodward replied that there was some mistake for lfe had ' no ' son named Felix The body claimed to be Woodward cer- : tainly ' resembled him, for it was that of a tall, dark young man with bushy Klack' hair. One of Woodward's old friends visited the morgue when, the he\vsp'apers ; announced the .identification, and satisfied himself "that there was a mistake by' opening .the mouth and it contained 'no; artificial teeth, whereas the real' Felix "Woodward has a number of .them; ,"