Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

The facts connected with a Curious insurance drama have ju3t been made public in London. On March 21 an uuknown committed suicide at Wai thamstow railway station. An inquest was held on the body, but no evidence of identification was obtainable and a verdict of felo ds se was returned by the jury. Seven days after the tragedy a lady and her daughter appeared at the Walthamstow Cemetery, where the remains had been interred, and made a request for the exhumation of the body. This was complied with, and the iady identified the remains as those of her husband, from whom she had been temporarily separated, while the daughter reoo^nised her dead father. In due course the bereaved lady presented to the Gresham Life Office a claim for a substantial sum under a policy taken out in that office by her husband. Other evidence of identification was forthcoming, and the society was on the point of making payment of the claim, when Mr Soott, the secretary, expressed a desire to have some fuivher information Inquiries were instituted, with a result surprising to most of the parties concerned. The missing man was found alive and well, and the supposed widow was presented with her lost husband, instead of the amount of his life policy.

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