Grave Robbers at Work
(Per Press Association.) Th» v , " t,KEMS . Oct- 81. " The Naoeby coires,)ondent of the I mes w,res that a slaking art ■ m«ui UWt was committed botwee* Saturday night and Monday "££? lag. Boine time ago Joe Fooc «. Chinese storekeeper, died reputed &■" be worth a few hundred \™J£ ■ iy body was prepared as usual" 'or transport to China, and authonty came to hand to disinter it ' «™ re ,.} ta !? u f inJ soveral « ,M col^ »ero placed in the coflln-two sovereigns in the corpse's mouth, a half ' pocKots and hands. ] t was oaqer-~. tained to-day that the gmvihei''- !**.. tampered with. hut had he* broken open and « P>ck taken, with which the cofßi'
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 255, 1 November 1904, Page 2
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