GRAVE DESECRATION.
li'. * • <> THE QUEENSBOROUGH AFFAIR. United Press Awociation—By Electric • Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 29, 11 a.m.) HOBART, January 29. In connection with the Queensborough Cemetery scandal, S. Luckman was fined £5 for removing a body from its grave. Decision "was reserved in a second charge of a similar nature. In the latter case George Young, grave-digger, gave evidence that Luckman instructed him to remove two bodies, as they were only Quakers. Luckman repeatedly said to him, " Know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing." "Witness cut through, many bodies in .>rder to make graves deep enough. His wife helped him to carry the coffins, because Luckman would not assist. Inspector Wadsworth gave evidenoe <o the effeot that he had seen a coffin Searing signs that it had been burned. Others had been thrown on a rubbish heap. One grave was opened, and ';hree coffins .'were found therein, in- . jtead of five-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10680, 29 January 1913, Page 6
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