When charged at San Francisco with stealing a tombstone, two students replied: “It’s hell week at the University of California.” The tombstone, they thought, would be “a unique and fitting decoration for our Fraternity House,” The delinquents were ordered by the court to return the stone to the cemetery and to carry it all the way—a distance of five miles. Gravestones from cemeteries in Moscow, Russia, were cut into blocks and used to face a new embankment, built along the Moskva River.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 284, 28 August 1935, Page 15
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