A CORPSE AS "GOODS."

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13738, 2 June 1913, Page 8

A CORPSE AS "GOODS."

A retired telegraph official at Emden has (says the Berlin correspondent of tho "Daily' Telegraph") to answer an extraordinary charge of defrauding tlie railway authorities. About a week ago his mother died at Nice, after expressing a, desire to be buried in her native land. ' While anxious to fulfil this last wish,, tho son was either unwilling or unable to pay the high charges which are made by railways for tho transmission of human remains, so ho packed tho body of his parent in a largo caso,,and put it on the line as ordinary goods. He himself made tho journey in advance to Emden, and when tbo corpse arrived he took it from the station to tho hotel whore ho was staying. There seems then to have be?n some monetary embarrassment as to what should done with it, hut th© ca«owas eventually ear-riod'to tho house of a cousin whoro an attempt was made, on tho strength of a quite regular death certificate issued, at Nice, U> induce the doctor to testify that the woman had died in Emden. .This, however, the, medical man refused to ai>, and «o tho matter got out. —