GRAVEYARD OUTRAGE.
« CORPSE STRIPPED OP JEWELS. By TelejraDh-PreßS Association—OoDyriehl Paris, December 22. Some miscreants at Pero la Chaise Cemetery opened thn coffin of Mile. Lantelme, an actress, who was drowned in the Rhine in July, and stole her jewels, including a pearl necklace Talued at 100,000 francs. During tho subsequent police investigations tho grave-diggers attempted to ventilate the grave by dropping into it lighted newspapers, -which accidentally ignited the shroud. Tho coffin burst into flame,
and firemen had to bo summoned to suppress it.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 5
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84GRAVEYARD OUTRAGE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1320, 26 December 1911, Page 5
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