PRINCE CHRISTIAN'S GRAVE.
DESECRATORS AT WORK.
PLOT TO REMOVE REMAINS.
United Press Association—Per Eleptno . Telegraphr-Copyright. .: Received 10.50 p.m., September 9th. CAPETOWN, September 9. Pwncess Christian and her daughter Victoria have landed at Capetown, with the intention' of visiting, on the 22nd inst., Prince Christian . Victor's grave at Pretoria. ■ . , . The authorities yesterday discovered that the grave had been dug into to the slab covering the coffin. The desecrators had apparently been disturbed and decamped. Messages from Pretoria attribute the outrage to a plot to remove the coffin to the mountains of Pretoria, find it,' and then claim ; a ransom. ■ All classes of the community reprobate ' the attempt.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12474, 10 September 1904, Page 3
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