Horrible Desecration
A strange case of desecration occurred on June 13, at tho St. Oven Cemetery, on the northern outskirts of Paris. One of the keepers, while walking, early in • tho morning in a secluded path of the graveyard, came upon an empty coffin, which. had been buried the day before, with the remains in it; <?f a little girl of eleven, who had died from, After a long search, in which a crowd of people joined, the body was found lying in a. wooden hut near the back gate of the cemetery, where the roadmenderskept their implements.- At- the same time V man was arrested who owned to having 1 taken away the corpse from, its ooffih." He added that it was he who had violated the tomb of Ferdinand Merry l&st March in the same oemetery. Ho was formerly, it : , is said, a gravedigger, but was dismissed for bad conduct. The police had great difficulty in protecting him from th© fury of the people on the way to the police station-
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 August 1886, Page 3
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173Horrible Desecration Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 August 1886, Page 3
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