THE THIRD TIME
MAN REPORTED DEAD NAMES CONFUSED [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, February 15. The wife of Edward C. Barrett, a waterside worker, was called on by a constable on Saturday morning, and informed that her husband had died in hospital. Later, however, the constable, on communicating with the hospital, learned that a mistake had been made, the man who had died and the living Barrett having t£e same surname. Barrett, on arriving home, regarded the affair as a joke, except for the alarm caused his wife, saying that this was the third time he had been erroneously reported dead.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 6
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