How Victor Lord returned from the dead, or Pembroke anyway.

Victor Lord tricked death

Victor Lord was a Montrealer, a veteran of both World Wars, and a blacksmith by trade. After the war he was living at a Mrs. D'Aoust's rooming house here in Montreal.
   On Jan. 29, 1947, in a shed behind the Cartier Normal School on Sherbrooke East, his body was found dangling in a shed. The body was unrecognizable however. There was a note asking that his body be used for science.
  The body appears to have been hanging there for some time, as it was described as a skeleton. People thought that it was Lord because he had disappeared earlier and his clothing seemed to be his and the landlady said that he had mentioned that he wanted his body to be used for science.
  Lord's wife had died around 1945, leading him to hand over his life insurance to his landlady and an undertaker under the implicit promise that they use it to pay for his funeral, as he had nobody else.
  Turned out that Lord was not dead at all. He had simply moved to Pembroke, Ontario. In December of 1950, at age 72 he applied for his military pension here in Montreal, leading to mass confusion, as there had already been a death certificate issued for him. Ultimately the situation was cleared up and he got the cash coming to him.
  Don't know, however, if his landlady had to return the insurance money she cashed in by identifying his body though