CEMETERY SCANDAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 8

CEMETERY SCANDAL

MANAGER FINED £lO JUDGMENT GIVEN IN RESERVED CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received February 4, 11.55 p.m.) HOBART, February 4. In the reserved case against George Luckman, manager of the Queensborough Cemetery, defendant was fined ten pounds. In connection with the Queens bo rough Cemetery scandal, on January 29ch. George Luckman was fined Ho for removing a body from a grave. Decision was reserved in a second charge of a similar nature. In the latter case George Young, a gravedigger, gave evidence that Luckman instructed him to remove two bodies, as they were “only Quakers." Luckman repeatedly said, "They will know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing." Witness cut through many bodies in order to make the graves deep enough. His wife helped him to carry the coffins, because Luckman would not assist. Inspector Wadsworth, of tho 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 there were three coffins therein instead of five.