THEFTS IN A MORGUE
MELBOURNE CONSTABLE CHARGED WATCH AND MONEY GONE MELBOURNE, Thursday. Constable Charles Stewart, who was employed in the Melbourne morgue as an orderly, has been arrested and charged with robbing dead bodies. The information alleged that he stole £4 10s from the clothes of a corpse which had been brought to the morgue, and also a gold watch from another corpse, and that he then substituted an inferior watch. Complaints in the first place came from relatives of the deceased persons. Stewart was remanded until May 10.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 9
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