SENSATIONAL INCIDENT
REMARKABLE SCENE IN A CEMETERY. PARIS, December 22. A number of miscreants' visited the Pere de la Chaise Cemetery and opened the coffin of Mdlle Lanthelme, the favourite actres, who was drowned while yachting on the Rhine in July last, and stole her jewels, including a pearl necklace valued at 400,000 francs. During subsequent police investigations the diggers, in attempting to ventilate the grave, dropped some lighted newspapers, which accidentallly ignited the shroud. The coffin was soon ablaze, and firemen had to be summoned to extinguish the flames. December 23. • A search showed that the jewels had not been stolen, and all were recovered in an envelope tinder Mdlle Lanthelme's pillow. The value does not exceed £2OOO.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3015, 27 December 1911, Page 25
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119SENSATIONAL INCIDENT Otago Witness, Issue 3015, 27 December 1911, Page 25
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