SACRILEGE AND NEMESIS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian uud N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, October 28. The Geneva correspondent of the 44 Daily Express ” states that a strange ■ case of sacrilege, followed hv tragic i Nemesis, occurred at Waldshut, on the - Swiss-German frontier. Groups Of young workmen employed an electric factory pulled down a wooden statue of Christ from a cross on the roadway and replaced it head downwards, amid * blasphemous shouts. Two days later 1 the ringleader fell into the machinery . at the factory head foremost and was killed. His comrades, panic-stricken, confessed to tho sacrilege and were arrested. J .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16569, 31 October 1921, Page 2
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