MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume 18, Issue 13892, 18 February 1909, Page 5

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. It is stated by the police that a mistake has arisen in the list of identifications, whereon the name of J. Bates appears. Nobody was identified under that name, and the Union Company have no record of such a passenger. This name was inserted in the list.of drowned when the identification was reported, so that it should now be deleted and the death roll reduced to 74. It has been proved beydnd doubt that a supposed victim, JFelix Woodward,. is not dead, but, on the contrary, has communicated with friends in Wellington by post, from Taihape. Since the Penguinfs wreck information given to the Union Company resulted in a cable being sent to a. Mr. - Woodward, alleged to fee the victim's father, in Tasmania, out to this Mr. Woodward replied that there was some mistake, for he had not a son named Felix. The body claimed to be Woodward's certainly resembled'him, Tor. it was that of a tall, dark young man, with bushy black hair. One of Woodward's old friends visited the morgue when the newspapers announced the identifications and satisfied himself that there was a mistake, by opening ihe mouth.' It contained no artificial teeth, whereas the real Felix Woodward has a number of them.