DEAD MAN'S IDENTITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8934, 27 September 1907, Page 1

DEAD MAN'S IDENTITY.

All amazing conflict of evidence in regard to the identity of the elderly man, whose body was recovered from the Wash, was given at an inquest held at '.'King's Lynn. The body was identified by representatives of the two families, entire strangers to each other, as that. of Robert Bales. Mrs Mary Ann Gent asserted that the body was that of her uncle. Ho had resided at Docking all his life. In response to a telegram, she went to Docking, and took him to King's Lynn. As he was ill, he went into"tho hospital, and remained there nine clays, subsequently going to live [with her. He mysteriously disappeared from her house shortly after midnight. Both' Mrs Gent and her husband swore positively to the identity of the man, recognising him by his whiskers and his clothing. The two brothers named Bales also identified tho dead man as their brother, and supported Mrs Gout's story. All denied any knowledge of the other family, and averred that Bales had no money. Tho rivals in the extraordinary dispute were Samuel Bales and his son. Samuel stated that tho dead man was his brother Robert. Ho had named his own son afterjhim. His brother had never lived at Docking. He was a man of money. So emphatically did Bales demand to know where his "•brother's box and bank book wore that the coroner called upon a polico officor to escort him out of the room. His sou Robert afterwards gave evidence, and confirmed the identification of tho body as that of his uncle. Ho denied that Mrs Gent was his cousin, and said he knew absolutely nothing of the Brothers Bales. The jury accepted the identification of Mrs Gent.

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