QUEENSBOROUGH CEMETERY SCANDAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 3

QUEENSBOROUGH CEMETERY SCANDAL.

MANAGER FINED £lO. Hobart, February 4. In the reserved case against George Luckman, manager of the Queensborough cemetery, defendant was fined .£lO. In connection with the Queensborough cemetery scandal, on January 29th, George Luckman was fined £5 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 the 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 there instead of five.