GROSS SACRILEGE.
WITH A TRAGIC SEQUEL. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 28. The “Daily Express’ ” Geneva correspondent states that a strange case of sacrilege, followed by a tragic nemesis, occurred at Waldshut, on the Swiss-German frontier. Some young workmen employed at an electric fac. tory pulled down a wooden statue of Christ from a cross on the roadway, and replaced it, haad downwards, amid blasphemous shouts. Two days later the ringleader fell into some machinery in the factory head foremost, and was killed. His comrades, panic-stricken, confessed to the sacriledge, and were arrested.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 1960, 31 October 1921, Page 5
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