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A hitch lias arisen regarding the tombstone in Uiu Mansfield cemetery erected over the three constables who., were murdered by the Kellys. On account of two of the deceased being Homan Catholics and the third a Protestant, it was first decided that the bodies should be laid together, and in order to cfi’ect this the consent was obtained from Mrs Kennedy and the relatives of the other two for the necessary removal, so that the throe bodies should be placed side by side in the ground over which the tombstone is to bo erected. To this stop Father O’Hcilly, the priest residing at Mansfield, has objected, and ho refuses to sanction cither the removal of the bodies from the Homan Catholic ground or the interment of the Protestant body in the Homan Catholic ground. The “ Bonalla Standard” counsels an appeal to Archbishop (mold, and, if that lie unsuccessful, that the three bodies should he exhumed and placed under the large monument about to he erected in the cross streets of Mansfield by the Murdered Police .Memorial Fund Committee.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2126, 15 January 1880, Page 3
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180CHRISTIAN USAGES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2126, 15 January 1880, Page 3
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