SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1184, 20 July 1911, Page 4

SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.

A DEAD MAN'S IDENTITY. (liy TelcErdph—Press Association.) Dunedin, July 19. All that is definitely known ol' the man who died on Monday evening in a lodg-ing-house in King. Street is tho fact that he gave the name of Jackson. The postmortem sliowed that both his lungs wero adherent to the walls of tho chest, and studded with tubercle. His identity and his history during even the past few years remain shrouded ill mystery, that is not dispelled, but rather 'deepened, by tho few meagre statements ho mado to his landlord during tho occupancy of a room in (he lodging-house which he took possession of on May !"•

Joseph Ford, landlord, deposed at tho inquest thin morning that deceased was a self-contained man, not given to talking of himself. Tn a rare moment of communicativeness he had apparently confided that he belonged to Derby, England, and had been organist ill St. Paul's Church there; also that he was married, and had been in the Dominion oil this occasion foe two years, and on a previous occasion four years flgo. Be stated, too, that he had been working for a farmer on the peninsula, had been treated in the hospital (or a fractured jaw, a.iul was going to get work at Begg and Co.'s music warehouse. Each of these statements has been investigated b\- the police, and each has ended in a blank wall of mystery. j\ farmer was discovered on (lie peninsula who had employed a man named .lackson, but the dead man was not that .lacksin. The only Jackson who had been in the hospital was a young man, and deceased was apparently well on towards GO years. Moreover. Begg and Co. had never heard of him, lior had other musical (inns who wero approached by the police. The corpse was pholographed at the morgue for the purposes of further investigation. In the meantime, lacking evidence of identification. Mr. Graham (coroner) found in accordance with Dr. Gordon Mac Donald's autopsy that, death was due to general exhaustion, the result of tuberclfl.