BURIED URN MYSTERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 8

BURIED URN MYSTERY

ASHES OF A PROFESSOR. COLLEGE IN A DILEMMA. The ashes of a professor who was at one time on the staff of the University Collego of Wales at Aberystwyth are believed to have been buried in one of the college walls. If this proves to be the ease, the university authorities can claim a substantial sum of money under the professor’s will. But the man who gave directions for the ashes to be bricked in the wall is dead. And no one knows the exact spot, where the ashes are reputed to be buried. The professor, when he was al the university, it. is now disclosed, promised to bequeath a large sum of money to the college if, oil his death, his ashe.s were buried within the wails of the college. No objection was taken. No promise was given. Perhaps the college authorities thought the professor was having a joke. Some years later the professor retired and left the town. On his death it was found that, he had bequeathed the money to the college, but there wag also the request for a place for his ashes. The urn which contained tha ashes actually reached Aberystwyth. Its arrival placed the authorities in a dilemma. The college was not consecrated ground, and it was argued that it would be unfair to accept the bequest without carrying out the professor’s request. Hero the mystery deepens. The uru, it is said, was actually kept in the college precincts for some time. One day another professor gave the order for it to be bricked up. Now, somewhere in the many walls, there is r niche where the ashes are lying. But. where xeactly it is presents a problem for a Sherlock Holmes.