COFFIN REPORTED MISSING
« A MYSTERY CLEARED HP.By Telcirranh—Vr«a Association Napier, November 16. It is not often that a coffin containing a corpse is reported missing, but such-an incident has been brought under tho notice of the Napier police. A week ago a young man was drowned on a station properly ,«> f°laga Bay, and after the inquest the relations, who reside in Dunddin. made arransementa fo have the body I, » r . icd . tllcrc VA o inglv it was placed in a lead-lined casket, and put on tlie Mararoa ut Gisborne *lasf~ Friday, but so far tl.e re tione have not seen or heard anything more of the body or the coflm. Tho re laflons are greatly perturbed. The'matter has now been, cleared up. Advice has been received by the pojiw that the coffin was carried over various stnees of. the journey by rail and sea, and was. duly delivered lo the undertaker to whom it was consigned. AnDnrentlv the undertaker concerned failed Fonotify tho relatives of the arrival of the coffin. ,
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 46, 18 November 1920, Page 4
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170COFFIN REPORTED MISSING Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 46, 18 November 1920, Page 4
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