"BURIED LIKE A DOG."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 99, 15 April 1908, Page 2

"BURIED LIKE A DOG."

A SEAMAN'S FATE. Per Press Association. Auckland. Last Night. At Hie nautical inquiry into the Wai-runa-Moonah collision to-day,' one witness, referring to th e case 'of Seaman Smith, who was drowned, said that sufficient evidence had not beeu taken to establish identification, and he was buried like a dog. 3lr. Kettle: One would have thought that every fragment of evidence would luve been obtained in order to establish the identity of the bodv. Was he registered as unknown y ' ° Mr. May: I believe so.

Mr. Kettle: Whore was he buried! Witness: Out Waikumate way. I think the company would have been prepared to give him a decent burial, too. I saw some sort of a black affair go out. but it was unfit to carry the remams of a human being, even if he were only a sailor, it was lit for a dog. Mr. Kettle: The coroner and the nolice should have seen to this. Sergeant Ramsay stated that *vervtlimg had been done that was possible in the circumstances, and the coroner was satisfied that sufficient pains had been taken to establish identification.