DESECRATION.
AN ACTRESS’ RESTING PLACE
DISTURBED
VALUABLE JEWELS STOLEN
(Received 23, 10.0 a.m.)
Paris, December 22
Miscreants at the cemetery at Pore la Chaise opened tho coffin of Aladame Lantehne, actress, who was drowned in the Rhine in July and stole her jewels, including a four hundred thousand francs pearl necklace. During the subsequent police investigations the men who were digging attempted to ventilate the grave by dropping in a lighted newspaper. The shroud accidentally ignited and set the coffin ablaze. Firemen had to ic summoned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 11, 23 December 1911, Page 5
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86DESECRATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 11, 23 December 1911, Page 5
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