SEXTON'S NEW HOLE
ENOUGH TO RAISE THE DEAD
(Eeceived 15th November, 1 p.m.) .. BOSTON, 14th November. Grave-digging being rather dull. Bichard.Jormyn, caretaker of the Peabody Cemetery, turned bootlegger. He started a cemetery night club, and did a lively business amongst his dead customers. A police raid caught nine girls aud twenty-sis men following revels where beer was dispensed from a coffin, a table being used as a bar. Twenty gallons of whisky were found in a tub peacefully resting on the upper slab >in. a mausoleum.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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86SEXTON'S NEW HOLE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 11
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