Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — A Dead Disappointment. [ARTICLE]

A Dead Disappointment.

Even into a Coroner’s duties there are times when gleams of humor pene, trate the gloom, although they be as sepulchral and as grewsome as the wit indulged in by the two gravediggers in “Hamlet.” Coroner I,eland tells the following story which occurred at the morgue a few weeks ago. The body of a woman had been found in a lodging house, where she had committed suicide by inhaling gas. The only thing that pointed to the identity of the woman was that her name was Jones. This was made public by the newspapers. The next day two stylishly dressed women came to the morgue and asked that they be allowed to see the body, one of the ladies further stating that her sister-in-law was named Jones, and that for certain reasons she did not care make known feared the suicide was her relative. They looked at the body, but they could not Identify It. As the ladles were going away the one who proffered the last bit of information said: “Oh, I am so disappointed. I was so sure it was Mary.” San Francisco Wave.