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CASE AT DUNEDIN. HUMAN REMAINS UNCOVERED. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, April 21. A sequel to the discovery some weeks ago by relief workers of human remains and portions of a coffin or coffins on a clay bank in the Northern Cemetery was heard in the City Police Court today when John Hellyer Allan, sexton of the cemetery, pleaded guilty to a charge of having unlawfully interfered with human remains. Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., presided. Albert Wigg, a relief worker, said that whilst working in the Northern Cemetery in August last he noticed that two coffins had been uncovered by the accused while he was digging a grave. Witness acting under instructions from accused, took a skull and some bones away and buried them in a clay bank so that they would be out of sight. The bank was where surplus soil from graves was emptied and could not in any sense be termed a rubbish tip. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed on his own recognisance of £25.
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Southland Times, Issue 21997, 22 April 1933, Page 6
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178SEXTON’S LAPSE Southland Times, Issue 21997, 22 April 1933, Page 6
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