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Date 12 novembre 1891
Comté Saint John
Lieu Saint John
Journal The Daily Sun
Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.
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'