EMBALMED BODY OF SPANIED

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 9

EMBALMED BODY OF SPANIED

SOME LIGHT ON THE MYSTERY,>

YOUNG COUPLE’S STRANGE WISH] (By Wire —Special to News.) .<<] Auckland, Last Night.y] The amazing discovery of a dog ii] a coffin in Palmerston North has in] terest in Auckland, wherg the origii] of the drama is believed to have' oc] curred. Five years ago or a little more] Mr. C. Little, sen., of the Aucklam] firm of undertakers of that name, em] ba-lmed such a dog in a casket of. th® description given, for a young marriedl couple. . N| To the best of his recollection they were strangers to Auckland, probably to New Zealand, and without children. Their great attachment to ths little ■black spaniel was expressed when they brought its body to him with a request that it be embalmed and enclosed in an oaken casket with a silver plate, the inscription on which had passed from his memory. It was evidently their desire that the dog .should find a resting place in consecrated soil, for they inquired whether it might not be' buried in a city cemetery as a stillborn childTold that that was Impossible, they took the body away in its. casket with a screw-down lid, which was easily re* movable for inspection purposes. They paid their bill and passed on.