"DEAD MAN" RETURNS.
The body of a man found drowned in the canal at Hunslet was identi - fied by a daughter-in-law of Mr Morfitt, a registrar of births and deaths under the Wharfedale guardians, as the registrar s son, John Seth Morfitt, aged thirty-eight a clerk, who married a Horsforth lady, but had been living apart from his.friends for two years. The body was laid in the grave of the Morfitts at Horsforth, and the insurance money was duly drawn. The real Mr John Seth Morfitt was very much surprised when he read an account of his own death and burial in a newspaper. He at once telegraphed to his brother in Mark Twain's historic words •'My death has been grossly exaggerated." Next day he returned himself to Horsforth. As to the. unknown man buried as Mr Morfitt, the clerk to the Burial Board laid it down that a dead body belongs to no one. The bodv lies in consecrated ground, and a faculty would, therefore, have to be obtained. This order would be subject to a license from the Home Secretary, so that a legal difficulty exists.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8308, 11 December 1906, Page 7
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188"DEAD MAN" RETURNS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8308, 11 December 1906, Page 7
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