GRUESOME SOUVENIRS
IN GAOL YARD,
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 11 a.m./ MELBOURNE, April 19
A novel strike occurred when builders’ labourers on the Melbourne gaol site, where excavations continue to unearth the remains of executed criminals left work, demanding thirty shillings per day and that an undertaker should remove the bones. These terms were agreed to. Over twenty skeletons have been dug up. Most of the graves have been despoiled by souvenir hunters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1929, Page 5
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76GRUESOME SOUVENIRS Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1929, Page 5
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