Curious Scene in a Cemetery

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 5

Curious Scene in a Cemetery-

A curious incident which has not hitherto found its way to the papers is reported to have taken place lately at a metropolitan cemetery. At dusk, just before the gates were cKsed the other evening, the keeper was astonished by the appearance of a man "of respectable appearance," as they say in the Police Courts Intelligence, who had strung upon his left arm a number of immortelles and other floral leaves of a funereal character, whilst in his arms he carried a large marble urn full of fresh flowers, which had evidently been doing duty on one of the graves. He was at once stopped by the officials, and told it was forbidden by the by-laws of the cemetery to remove any object, decorative or otherwise, from the graves. ' ' But these are my own property, from my own wife's grave, " returned the offender ; "I bought and paid for 'em all with my own money." " Can't help it, sir," insisted the attendant. "You must really take them back and leave them where you took them from." "Never!" exclaimed the man with a flourish of his wreath-encumbered arm. ' { Why I've found out that my late wife used to carry on with her cousin !" It was not until something akin to force was employed that the aggrieved husband was induced to return the portable property to its former reetingplare.—"Figaro."