You know when it's inorganic refuse week in Huntly when you see this.
Wife returns after a fine funeral
New York Times March 15, 1904: Declaring that the city falsely notified him that his wife was dead, and saddled him with the expense of a funeral for a strange woman, Ignacio Valente is suing the city for $250. About six weeks ago Valente
quarrelled with his wife, Angelico, over the way she cooked macaroni. As a result the wife left, declaring she would rather die than return.
When Valente's rage had cooled he became worried over his wife and started a search for her, reporting her loss to the police. He gave a careful description of the woman, and finally, on being notified that the body of a woman answering the description was at the morgue, he went there. He identified the clothing of the dead woman as belonging to his wife, but when shown the body, he said: "This woman was better looking than my wife," "Death beautifies them all," the morgue man replied.
Smothering his doubts, Valente says he had the body brought to his home, and attired in wedding dress used by Mrs Valente. The funeral was held and notice of the event was published in the Italian papers, and the real Mrs. Valente, reading it, started post-haste for her home. Real trouble followed this, and, when Valente had satisfied himself it was his real wife who stood before him, and he had buried the wrong woman, he could only restore peace by promising to buy his wife another wedding dress. Now he demands that the city pay him $100 he spent for the funeral of the wrong woman, $40 for wages lost through grief — and illness following the shock of finding his wife alive — and $110 for the bridal costume.
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