WALLACE’S GRAVE

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 February 1939, Page 9

WALLACE’S GRAVE

CARED FOR BY FRIEND. LONDON, January 7. An unknown friend of Edgar Wallace is caring for his grave in the cerueteTy 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 glass verge. Up to May of this year the grave had become dull and green with the weather of five winters, but then a mysterious order was received for the Sexton to clean it up. “I was glad when this order came," Piggott, the Sexton, told a reporter. "For so many people came from far and wide to see the grave that I wunt--cd it always to look its best. Until that order came in May 1 had no authoiity, of course, to do more than what is done for every other grave in t.ie cemetery. That is, to trim the grass twice a year. The order came, I believe, from the secretary of a wellknown racing figure who was n very great, friend of Edgar Wallace and who wrote saying that as he had heard Hint, the grave was not looking its best he would like nF to clean it up ami g<-t som<- growing llowoth on ii. i ti-iid< d the flowers up to SopteinImr, when I found that somebody else was seal from Yapton i<> do it."