A highly dramatic episode, the details of which are far stranger thai) any Story told in an American screen yarn, has occurred in an Auckland suburb (says the Auckland Observer). A young Now Zcalnnder left this country for England in 1913 to gain experience in England as an engineer. At that time he was engaged to a Ponsonby .young lady, and it was agreed that the pair should marry when the boy returned. News arrived that owing to a ship accident at Crewe (Kngland), the young fellow had been kilted by an overhead electric "traveller'' collapsing and falling on him. Immediately the news arrived in Auckland of the fatality the young lady to whom he had been engaged proved by a certificate that she had married him before he went to England. She therefore claimed (and obtained) a sum of £372 10s on the realisation of his property, and three months after married a bookmaker's assistant. The "killed" man not only wasn't killed, but joined up the London Scottish, and served three rears at the front, winning a commission and an M.C. He was shockingly wounded at Bapaume, a trench falling in on him and disfiguring him horribly. The celebrated London surgeon, "Dr. Zephaiviat, kindly took a great interest in this case of disfigurement, and managed, by a six months' course of careful grafting, to re-establish the face of his patient. The whole curiosity of the case is that this voung Captain, who has returned to Auckland, no more resembles his former self than Mr. Masse? resembles the Duke of Westminster, and it has been a matter of groat difficulty for him to establish his identity. Whether, should be establish his identity, the marriage of his wife will he let qside, this deponent knoweth not, but there are reasons for believing that the ex-officer with the new face will be elad to hear that he can't have his back,
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1919, Page 10
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319Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1919, Page 10
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