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Family welcomes 'Lazarus'
'Pretty friggin' scary', 'dead man' admits
By ROB LAMBERTI, Sun Media
TORONTO -- They now call him Lazarus. John Dane Squires says he got the nickname after he showed up at his sister's Scarborough, Ont., home Thursday morning, six days late for a cup of coffee and a few hours early for his own wake.
The 48-year-old was emotional yesterday talking of how much his family means to him.
"I'm not kidding ya, I'd be dead without them," Squires said.
His sister Diana Branton said Squires was to have gone to her home, but he didn't show, not unusual for the drifter. But when the family read in a newspaper someone with a similar physical description was struck and killed by a GO Train last Friday, they called police.
A distraught Diana identified the body as her brother.
A funeral was planned for Thursday, a makeshift memorial put up by the accident scene, an obituary placed in the hometown St. John's Telegram and plans made to bury the ashes of the father of three grown kids in the Newfoundland capital.
But no one told Squires he was supposed to be dead.
He arrived at his sister's home around 11 a.m. Thursday. About 50 people were at the funeral home but not sister Diana Branton who couldn't bear to say goodbye.
When she looked out to see who was sitting on the front porch, she realized she wouldn't be saying goodbye after all.
"It was pretty friggin' spooky," Squires said yesterday, holding up the prayer card bearing his picture. "That's me. I was laid out dead ... "
"You know what my brother wanted to do when he found out everybody was at his funeral? He said, 'I should take a taxi and go up and sign the guest book,'" Branton said.
She doesn't allow her brother to drink at her home but allowed the rule to be broken Thursday: "I said, 'My darling, drink it all, drink the whole damn bottle.'"
Neighbour Brendan Matthews was getting ready to go to the funeral when he saw a dead man walking.
" 'Oh, no,' I thought. 'Here he comes,'" Matthews said. "I came over and said, 'Hey, you're supposed to be dead.' It was a stop-the-presses-kind-of-thing."
Toronto traffic Det.-Const. Dave Stirling said investigators are back to square one.
Family welcomes 'Lazarus'
'Pretty friggin' scary', 'dead man' admits
By ROB LAMBERTI, Sun Media
TORONTO -- They now call him Lazarus. John Dane Squires says he got the nickname after he showed up at his sister's Scarborough, Ont., home Thursday morning, six days late for a cup of coffee and a few hours early for his own wake.
The 48-year-old was emotional yesterday talking of how much his family means to him.
"I'm not kidding ya, I'd be dead without them," Squires said.
His sister Diana Branton said Squires was to have gone to her home, but he didn't show, not unusual for the drifter. But when the family read in a newspaper someone with a similar physical description was struck and killed by a GO Train last Friday, they called police.
A distraught Diana identified the body as her brother.
A funeral was planned for Thursday, a makeshift memorial put up by the accident scene, an obituary placed in the hometown St. John's Telegram and plans made to bury the ashes of the father of three grown kids in the Newfoundland capital.
But no one told Squires he was supposed to be dead.
He arrived at his sister's home around 11 a.m. Thursday. About 50 people were at the funeral home but not sister Diana Branton who couldn't bear to say goodbye.
When she looked out to see who was sitting on the front porch, she realized she wouldn't be saying goodbye after all.
"It was pretty friggin' spooky," Squires said yesterday, holding up the prayer card bearing his picture. "That's me. I was laid out dead ... "
"You know what my brother wanted to do when he found out everybody was at his funeral? He said, 'I should take a taxi and go up and sign the guest book,'" Branton said.
She doesn't allow her brother to drink at her home but allowed the rule to be broken Thursday: "I said, 'My darling, drink it all, drink the whole damn bottle.'"
Neighbour Brendan Matthews was getting ready to go to the funeral when he saw a dead man walking.
" 'Oh, no,' I thought. 'Here he comes,'" Matthews said. "I came over and said, 'Hey, you're supposed to be dead.' It was a stop-the-presses-kind-of-thing."
Toronto traffic Det.-Const. Dave Stirling said investigators are back to square one.
