ALIVE OR DEAD

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 9

ALIVE OR DEAD

TANGLE IN LIVERPOOL. Has a “dead" woman come to life? This question is raised in an amazing identity tangle which is being investigated by the Liverpool police. Early in July, Mr. Frank Con nolly, of Bittern Street, Liverpool identified a body recovered from the Mersey as that of his wife, Isabella Connolly, aged 45. He and other relaitvec attend cl tho funeral at Ford Cemetery. Now a niece of Mrs. Connolly, Mis*Elizabeth McCulloch, declares that she has seen her aunt alive in Liverpool, and several ' friends of the family support her story. Mr. Connolly, who recently came out of hospital, is. still convinced however, that the body was that oi his wife. He identified it by the teeth, r scar on the body, and a green arm band, he saysThis, he told, was one of a pair he had bought to wear himself. Ho gave them to his wife to use as garters, and one was on the body and the other at his home. The two were compared by police officers before the body was identified. This is Miss McCulloch's story: “I saw ray aunt walking in Gerard Street with another woman. “I ran after her, and when I caught her up I said: 'Excuse me, are you Bella Connolly?' “She said 'No,' bnt when I got a better view of her I was sure it was her. “ 'You are my Aunt Bella,' I said, and eventually she laughed. She said she had just got back from Chorley, and then she walked away ;with the other woman." “It was-Bella Connolly all right," '■ asserted Mrs- Mary Brady, of Bent i Street, Liverpool, who also claims to have seen her. “She was sunburned, and said she had been picking peas. “When I said that she was supposed to have been taken out of the river she laughed, and said she had not heard anything about it." Mr. Thomas Gallagher, of Rose Place, also spoke to tho woman. “I have known her for 20 years, and her voice and the way she moved were the same,'' he declared.