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                          CORPSE LAID OUT FOR BURIAL
                           WHEN "VICTIM" RETURNED HOME
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              Thomas Thomson, Supposed to Have Gone Down With the
              James Carruthers, Returned to His Home in Hamilton
               - Wrong Corpse Identified.
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                         (Special to the Toronto World)
                    HAMILTON, Thursday, Nov. 20. - 
                  After all preparations had been made
                  for his burial this afternoon, and his
                  supposed body had been identified at
                  Goderich by his father and sisters as
                  one of the men who lost their lives in
                  the James Carruthers, Thos. Thomp-
                  son walked into his home at 422
                  North John street, last night, alive
                  and well.
                    The whole story revolves around a
                  startling case of remarkable human
                  "doubles." one living and the other
                  dead.
                    As an echo of the appallingly ter-
                  rible disaster that visited the great
                  lakes on Sunday, Nov. 9, the story
                  began when Thomas Thompson of this
                  city received word on Monday from
                  a daughter in Sarnia that his son
                  John had gone down with the James
                  Carruthers and his body was lying in
                  the Goderich morgue.
                    Thompson immediately went to God-
                  erich and identified a body there as
                  that of his son by certain scars, tattoo
                  marks, birth mark, etc.  He brought
                  the body home on Tuesday, and it was
                  examined by Mrs. Thompson, her sons
                  and daughters, as well as other rela-
                  tives and friends of the family, who
                  unanimously and unhesitatingly pro-
                  nounced it to be that of John Thomp-
                  son.  The grief-stricken family had the
                  body embalmed and made all prepar-
                  ations for a funeral this morning.
                  The insurance company satisified itself
                  that the body was that of John Thomp-
                  son, and paid the death claim.  There
                  was not even the lurking shadow of a
                  doubt in the minds of anyone that the
                  body was not that of "Dargie" Thomp-
                  son, so-called because of his com-
                  plexion.  Last night, shortly before 6
                  o'clock, the real live John Thompson
                  walked into his home on John street.
                    He was the most self-possessed of the
                  happy reunited family, and after look-
                  ing at his supposed corpse, claimed that
                  it did not resemble him.  The flower-
                  banked coffin was at once removed to
                  Dwyer's undertaking parlors.  The
                  young sailor who had come back from
                  the dead was very reticent regarding
                  his movements since leaving this city
                  on the steamer Canadian about a month
                  ago.
                          
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SOURCE: The Toronto World
         November 20, 1913