A BERLIN SCANDAL.
The reports of the desecration of tIM graves of citizens of Wurzburg (says the "Morning Leader") are officially conflrmedj An Inquiry, Instituted by -the municipal
authorities, repealed the fact 'that for
years past bodies buried In the church. yard in sine and lead coffins had been dig* interred a night or two after the funeral, and either put in a wooden coffin with another corpse, or simply replaced in the grave without any covering than the earth.
The metal coffins were then cut up and afterwards sold to a dealer. According to a Wurzburg journal, Franz Keh, the official in charge of the graveyard, has stated that he and his predecessors have always considered the secret sale of metal coffins as a perquisite of office.
The whole matter is now in the hands of the public prosecutor.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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140A BERLIN SCANDAL. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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