BACK FROM THE GRAVE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 30 November 1907, Page 3

BACK FROM THE GRAVE.

A man whom a London coroner’s jury declared to be dead, and of whose body a-post mortem examination was supposed to have been made, has come to life. A body was found floating in the Thames, and was identified as that of one A. A. Steer by seven relatives of the said Steer. In due course they drew his insurance money, went into mourning, buried the body in Bromley cemetery, and decorated the grave with flowers. A few weeks latter, however, the “dead”- man appeared' at his son John’s. John brought his father to the coroner’s court. Like the drowned man, he had only one eye. “ That eye caused our mistake,” said the son. I am very sorry I made it, sir. The man had a scar under the eye, and a tooth was gone from the front, and it was the same with father. I drew the insurance money, but have paid it back again.” The coroner said that all he could do was to rectify the entry on the certificate of death, and say that the identification was a mistake, the body being of that of an unknown man. ‘‘The doctor tells me,” he remarked, ‘‘that this is the first time he has seen a man come to life after he had made a post-mortem examination upon him.”