GRAVE ROBBERY
WOMAN S JEWELLERY STOLEN PARIS, Nov. 30. There was a touch of grim humour in connection with a grave robbery at Vaneesson cemetery. During the week, as the outcome of a charge that a male friend of a wealthy woman, who died in 1928, had stolen her valuable jewellery, the police exhumed the body. When the coffin was opened Jewelled bracelets and rings, valued at £640, were found buried with her, as the man had insisted. The grave was formally refilled and the man dis Ch To g day two robbers borrowed the grave-digger’s tools, dug up the coffin, and stoic the lot-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 438, 2 December 1930, Page 7
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105GRAVE ROBBERY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 438, 2 December 1930, Page 7
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