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  • Grave Robbing in 1929

    The Canberra Times
    15 April 1929

    MORBID TASTES
    Deeming's Coffin Rifled

    Melbourne, Sunday.
    Several daring boys got into the old gaol yard today, and tore the lid off the coffin of Deeming, the notorious murderer. The grave was opened yesterday, but the excavator did not remove the coffin. The boys decamped with Deeming's bones as mementoes. One lad got away with the skull, and two young ladies were seen taking off two of Deeming's ribs. The graves of three executed criminals were not interfered with.
    During the afternoon, hundreds of morbid minded persons of both sexes visited the old gaol yard to inspect the rifled graves of Ned Kelly and Deeming.
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