CLAIMING A CORPSE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 3

CLAIMING A CORPSE.

A woman appeared before Mr Lane, K. 0., at West Loudon Police Court, and made a remarkable application respecting tho body of her husband, which was lying at a house in Fulham awaiting burial. At tho time of his death, she explained, her husband was living apart from her, and the woman with whom he had resided would uot give up tho corpse to her for burial, aud had expressed her intention of interring it in Fulham Cemetery. Tno applicant desired to bury her husband at Ivor, in Buckinghamshire, and asked the Magistrate to make an order for the giving up of the body. Mr Lane: “This is one of the most singular cases I have ever hoard of. She refuses to giro up the body, you say?” ‘Yes, unless I can obtain an order from the Magistrate to tho undertaker to carry out my instructions as to tho place of burial. ’ ’ Mr Lane observed that as far as he know a magistrate had no power to make any such order. The applicant could go to the High Court and get an injunction, but that would be beyond her means. She was the person who at law had the duty, aud therefore the right, of interring him. After considering tho matter, Mr Lane decided to send an officer of the Court to try and persuade the woman to give up the body.