MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1271, 9 February 1883, Page 2

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

A most remarkable cue of mistaken identity took place in connection with a suicide which occurred on the tramway in Elizabeth-street Sydney, lately. Fer some time after the occurrence the deceased remained unidentified, and two days subsequently the City Council commenced an inquest with regard to his fate. A woman giving the name of Jane and describing herself as a dressmaker, living in Goulburn street, had just viewed the body j| of the deceased in the Sydney Hospital morgue, and was called to give evidence. She swore positive that the body was that of her husband, and tendered other testimony with regard to hie identification. His name, she Skid, was John Fowler,, and he had been living apart from her for the last two years, Her evidence was taken down iu the customary manner by the coroner, and at the conclusion of the inquest, the jury found that the said John Fowler had committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a tram motor. The deceased was buried in due course, and to tho utmost astonishment of Mrs Jane Fowler, her husband presented himself in the flesh at her household yesterday. She could not account for the circumstances for a time, being so astonished, but ultimately she dis- | covered that, she had mistaken the deceased for her husband, and had unknowingly sworn to his identification. In appearance the de- ► cessed man very much resembled the indirid- ’ ual for whom the wife of the latter had taken him. The matter wm made known to the coroner yesterday afternoon, by a visit to that gentleman’s office of Mr and Mrs Fowler, accompanied by their eon, who was prepared to bear teetimony to the fact that nis mother had altogether mistaken another man tor his father on the occasion referred to. Up to tha present time it is not known wha the deceased man ie. •