CEMETERY SCANDAL.
FINE OF £5 IMPOSED.
Press Association—Electric Teleorraptj—Copyright. (Received Wednesday, at 11.10 a.m.) lIOBART, Wednesday. In connection with the Queenborough cemetery scandal, S. Luckman was fined £5 for removing a body from a grave. The decision was reserved in a second charge of a similar nature.
hi the latter case, George Young, a grave-digger, gave evidence that Luckma a instructed him to removed two bodies, as they were only Quakers. Luekmau repeatedly said: "Know nothing, see nothing, and hear nothing." Witness said he cut through many bodies in order to make the graves deep enough. ' His wife helped to carry the coflins because Luckman would not assist. Inspector Wadsworth said he had seen a coffin bearing signs of having been burned, and others were found on a rubbish heap. One grave was opened, and three coflins were found instead of five.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11578, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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142CEMETERY SCANDAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11578, 29 January 1913, Page 5
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