MISTAKEN IDENTITY
STRANGE CASE IN DUBBO Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, October 8. An extraordinary case of mistaken identity occurred at Dubbo following the death of an elderly man _ in the street. Four men in the vicinity declared unhesitatingly that the deceased was a local resident, Thomas Moore, aged 75. Tho body was duly removed to the morgue, where two sous, a daughter, and a son-in-law confirmed the identification. While the funeral was being arranged to-day the local undertaker was startled to see Thomas Moore standing outside the post office. The undertaker hurriedly returned to the funeral parlour with the intention of breaking the nows to Moore’s relatives, when he learned that Moore’s son, who also had discovered his father alive, had actually been talking to him. The dead man turned out to be Charles Peterson, aged 73, a shearers’ cook, whose identity was traced by means of a lottery ticket in his pocket.
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Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 9
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154MISTAKEN IDENTITY Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 9
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