THIEVES IN CHURCH.
CASSOCKS AND STOLES TAKEN (Special to the “ Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, SR. Six cassocks, eight stoles, and several book-marks were stolen by: thieves who entered St. Mary’s Church, Merivale, on Friday night last. It is stated that the articles later played a part in a sensational bpisode on Cashmere Hills. When they were recovered the cassocks had been adorned with cfie aicl of the stoles and book-marks and eyeholes had been cut in the material. “It looks as if they were wanted for an initiation ceremony—though I do not know who was going to act as High Priest,” said Archdeacon P. B. Haggitt, telling of the theft this morning. The church was left open, he said, and some time during the night the thieves entered and robbed the vestry. The vestments were all that were taken. At the services at the church yesterday, “we just had to do without them,” said the archdeacon.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 272, 29 August 1933, Page 3
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