A Strange Coffin.
One of the strangest coffins ever told of is one for which the War Office is responsible. The story is that of a workman engaged in casting metal for the manufacture of ordnance at the Woolwich Arsenal, who lost his balance and fell into a cauldron containing 12 tons of molten steel. The metal was at white heat, and the man was ntfcerly consumed in less time than it takes to tell of it. The War Office authorities held a conference, and decided not to profane the dead by using the metal in the manufacture of ordnanoe, and that mass of metal has actually been buried, and a Church of Eng. land clergyman read the service for the dead ova- it.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 August 1895, Page 3
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124A Strange Coffin. Manawatu Herald, 24 August 1895, Page 3
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