SEXTON’S OFFENCE
' HUMAN REMAINS DISTURBED
(Per Press Association — Copyright )
DUNEDIN, April 21
A sequel to the discovery some weeks ago by a relief worker of human remains and portions of a coffin or coffins on a clay bank in the Northern Cemetery was heard in the City Police Court to-day when John Hillyer Allan, sexton of the cemetery, pleaded 'guilty’Td'" a’ > 'cKal:ge”'”6f“TraVftg'“''unlawfully interfered with human remains. Mr H, W, Bundle, S.M., presi tied i
Albert Wigg, a relief worker, said that whilst working in the Northern Cemetery in August Inst, lie noticed two coffins had been uncovered by the accused whilst he was digging a grave. Witness, acting under instructions from the accused, took a skull and some bones away, and buried them in the cloy bank so that they would be out of sight. This bank was where surplus soil from the grave was emptied, and it could not in any sense be termed a rubbish tip. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed on his own recognisance of £25.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 5
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177SEXTON’S OFFENCE Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1933, Page 5
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