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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 80 Number 1436

Date November 12 1891
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun

info The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.

Last Friday night a casket containing the corpse of George BENNETT, age 28, who died at the Halifax asylum, came in on the late train. It was consigned to L. DeV. Chipman. A couple of squaws were around looking for the body of a relative who had died somewhere near Truro, N.S. and was expected that day. They said they would not take the body that night but would get it in the morn. So it was placed in the freight house over night. Col. Chipman had received advice of the shipment of the body consigned to him as county clerk and left orders to give the body to parties who would call for it. Saturday morn. the squaws came around and got a truckman to take the body to the Catholic burying ground where it was interred. In the meantime the relatives of the deceased who lived at or in the vicinity of Sheffield Mills were looking for the body of young Bennett and investigation showed that it had been taken to the wrong cemetery and buried as that of the missing squaw. Explanations were made all round and the body was taken up and removed to the Baptist cemetery at Canard. - Kentville, N.S. 'Star'

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