DESECRATING A CEMETERY.
SENSATIONAL DISCOVERIES AT ■SYDNEY. [United Press Association.] SYDNEY, This Day. The Citizens' Vigilance Committee report wholesale vandalism in the old Devonshire Street cemetery. Ornnnients have beeu broken ; lieadatonna
and iron railings of graves hare been removed for the sake of the metal; vaults have been opened and the lead covering of the coflins has been taken away ; and tne skeletons have been left exposed. [The Vigilance Committee were setup owing to the mysterions removal of city signboards some weeks ago.]
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 248, 20 October 1900, Page 2
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83DESECRATING A CEMETERY. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 248, 20 October 1900, Page 2
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