CEMETERY MYSTERY
EMPTY COFFIN FOUND. [per press association.] •WELLINGTON, February 18. The fact that every care is taken in driving Wellington’s big drainage tunnel under the Bolton Street cemetery, to obviate any disturbance ot graves, has not prevented the unearthing of a mystery. The records of the cemetery, and the ground itsell, were carefully examined, but a gra v e unrecorded and unmarked was disturbed. A coffin, very old indeed, was showing in the coiling of the drive. Great care was exercised, but, when the timbering was being put into place on the end of the coffin, it fell away. There was nothing in the coffin, and never had been. It is hardly likely that resultectionists ever operated in Wellington, so it would seem that a funeral seivice was at one time held over an empty coffin. Notwithstanding its emptiness, the coffin is being treated with respect. It will not be disutrbed or handled further. It will be sealed from below, and forgotten.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1941, Page 2
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