UNCLAIMED GOODS.
TOMBSTONE ON A LAWN. [FROM: OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SAN FRANCISCO Nov. 3. The yearly sale of the trange collection made by the Police Department was recently held here. Stolen goods, dead prisoners' effects, found articles, these arid many other avenues contribute to a display once a yea/ that would giva a magic pen opportunity for a weird article. 'Nearly two years ago a respected citizen woke ap one morning to find a tombstone, minus inscription, in the middle .of his. lawn. No claimant appeared for the' property. At the first saie there, was no bidder.- A few days ago a woman in black bid a . small sum for the stone It was found! that she wanted it for her son's gravo, and . that she was a- widow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19502, 4 December 1926, Page 12
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