WALLACE'S GRAVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 24, 30 January 1939, Page 5

WALLACE'S GRAVE.

CARED FOR BY FRIEND.

jREMEMBERED AFTER FIVE YEARS.

(Special— By Air Mail.)

LONDON, January 7. J An unknown friend of Edgar Wallace is caring for his grave in the cemetery at Little Marlow, near Maidenhead. Around the tall, white marble cross, which faces Wallace's old home on the hillside, are neat rows of flowers within a trim grass verge. Up to May of this year the grave had jbecoine dull and green with the weather jof five winters, but then a mysterious jorder was received for the Sexton to Iclean it up. I '"I was glad when this order came," |Mr. Piggott, the Sexton, told a reporter, "for so many people came from far and wide to see the grave,that I wanted it always to look its best. "Until that order came in May I had no authority, of course, to do more than what is done for every other grave in ithe cemetery. That is, to trim the grass [ twice a year. "The order came, I believe, from the secretary of a well-known racing figure ! who was a very great friend of Edgar i Wallace and who wrote saying that as ;he had heard that the grave was not ijlooking its best be would like me to ficlean it up and set some growing flowers ;|on it. "I tended the grave up to September. ■ when I found that somebody else was sent from Yapton to do it."