GHOULISH ROBBERY
Grave Yields Jewellery i Paris, November So, A touch of grim humour Is associated with a grave robbery at Vtmcesson Cemetery. During tlie week, us the outcome ot a charge that a male friend of a Wealthy woman who had died in 1928 hnd stolon her valuable jewellery, the police exhumed the body. When the coffin was opened jewelled bracelets and rings valpod at £O4O sterling were found buried with her. As the num had insisted that the grave should bo formally refilled, he was discharged. To-day two robbers borrowed gravediggers’ tools and, digging up the coffin, stole the lot.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 58, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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102GHOULISH ROBBERY Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 58, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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