CEMETERY SCANDAL.
DESECRATION OF GRAVES// By Teleeraph-Press Association-Copyright Hobart, January 29. In connection with the Queenborough Cemetery scandal, S. Luckman has been fined >£5 for removing a body , from a grave. Decision was . reserved in a second charge of a similar nature. In the latter case Geo. Young, a gravedigger, gave evidence that Luckman instructed him to remove two bodies,' as thoy were "only Quakers." Luckman repeatedly said:, "They-will know nothing, see nothing, hear, nothing." Witness cut through many bodies in order to make the grave deep enough. His.wifehclped him to carry the coffins, because 'Luckman would not assist. '
' Inspector Wadsworth, of the . Public Health Department, in his evidence, said he had seen a coffin bearing signs of having been burned. There ■ were others on a rubbish heap. One grave was opened, and thero were; three coffins therein instead of five.' ■''.'-.-.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 30 January 1913, Page 5
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141CEMETERY SCANDAL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 30 January 1913, Page 5
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