GHOULISH GREED
COFFINS RANSACKED
STRIPPED OP MOUNTINGS.
ORGIES IN BURIAL VAULT.
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A grim discovery was made by the sexton of a cemetery at Geelong, which contains (the large vault of the wealthy Armitages, in which there are fifteen coffins, with space for nine more.
The sexton discovered that somebody had raided a couple of coffins, apparently for jewels believed te have been buried with the bodies.
The coffins were badly damaged, and some of the mountings stolen.
The sexton states that the lock bad been off the- vault for some time.
Another allegation is that the vault had been used by drinking parties.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1928, Page 5
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