WANTON SACRILEGE
RETRIBUTION FOLLOWS SWIFTLY Australian and . N.Z. Gable Association. (Received October 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 28. The “Daily Express’s” Geneva correspondent states that a strange case of sacrilege, followed by a tragic nemesis, occurred at Waldahut, on the Swiss-German .frontier. Groups of young workmen emjdgwed at an electric factory pulled Mrn a wooden statue of Christ from a cross on the roadway and replaced it bead downwards amid blasphemous shouts. Two days later the ringleader fell into the machinery at a factory head foremost and was killed. His comrades, panic-stricken, confessed to the sacrilege and were arrested.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11045, 31 October 1921, Page 5
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99WANTON SACRILEGE New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11045, 31 October 1921, Page 5
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