SACRELIGIOUS THEFT.
DANISH KINGS’ TOMBS ROBBEIf.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S CROSS
STOLEN
United Press Association. Copyright (Received Dec. 24, 11.10 p.m.)
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 24
Golden wreaths have been stolen From the graves of two kings in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark, and also the silver cross' which Queen Alexandra, laid on her parents’ tomb.
(Received Dec. 25, 9.45 a.m.)
Nearly £ISOO worth of gold wreaths weyo stolen at Rcskilde. Queen Alexandra’s mother’s tomb was rifled, but a golden lyre was overlooked.
The Royal Family’s grief is poig- v nant.
[Roskihlc Cathedral, in a town twenty miles west of Copenhagen, has been described as the Danish Westminster Abbey. It- contains many monuments of the kings and queens of Denmark.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2383, 26 December 1908, Page 5
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