THRICE REPORTED DEAD.
AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. .j 5. The wife of Mr Edward C. Barrett, a waterside worker, was called on by a constable in uniform on Saturday morning, and informed that her husband had died in hospital. As Mr Barrett had left for work in the best of health a few hours previously, Mrs Barrett assumed that he had been the victim of an accident on the wharf, but the constable, on communicating with the hospital, further learned that a mistake had been made, the man who died in the hospital annexe and the living Barrett having the same surname. hfr Barrett, ?rn arriving home, regarded the affair „ as a joke, except for the alarm it had caused his wife, say that this was the third time ho had been erroneously reported dead.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 16 February 1927, Page 6
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139THRICE REPORTED DEAD. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 20, 16 February 1927, Page 6
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