TOMB RAIDERS BAFFLED
STEEL DOOR PROTECTS DANCER’S COFFIN Thieves made an attempt recently j to rob the tomb of Mile. Gaby Deslys, j tlie famous da leer, who died in 1920. ’ i The wardens of the St. Pierre i cemetery at Marseilles discovered : that the masonry surrounding the . vaults containing her remains had been broken open. A hole nine feet | long: and two feet wide had been ; made in the wall of the chapel. : When the door of the chapel was ! j opened it was obvious that an attempt j had been made to raise the slab of granite covering the vaults. The huge stone had been lifted, but the desecrators had been foiled by a solid steel door protecting the dancer's coffin. Signs of the use of the most modern house-breaking implements were visible on the surface of the steel, which is six i.xhes in thickness, but the raiders had not had sufficient time j to cut a way through. It is possible that they were search- j ing for jewels or were attempting in j criminal fashion to gather evidence to ! prove or disprove the dead woman's ! Identity, which has been the subject I of recent litigation.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 14
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199TOMB RAIDERS BAFFLED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 14
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