TOMS DESECRATED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3449, 14 February 1912, Page 7

TOMS DESECRATED.

REVOLUTIONISTS PROTEST AGAINST NEW POMP AT CHAPEL VAULT.

- A ghoulish outrage was perpetrated recently upon the tomb in , ienna where Prince Alexander Karageorgevitcli, father of King Peter of Set via, was intered many years ago. The Prince’s head was earned off. though the jawbone in the hurry was droped and left on the garden path. The vault lies in the remote graveyard, of St. Marx, outside the c-it-y. lhe last interment was that of Prince Alexander Karageorgevitch, father of King Peter of Servia, in ISS2. Early in the morning a window leading to tne ent--ranee to the vault was found broken. The thieves had entered -by a grating, and wrenched open the lid of the coffin containing the remains of the Prince. Thev left his wife’s coffin, which lay iy the* Prince’s side, untouched. The Prince had been buried in liis orders, and there were several gems, out tl e pointed way in which these acre • snored shower that the desecration >.--=• purely political in intert:on. The jawbone lyir o.i the gravel indicated pretty clea.iy that the revolutionists had departed hutrieoly, tor it is believed that the outrage is the work of Servian revolutionaries, who nutw that King Peter had prepared a splendid tomb for the removal of his parents' remains to Servia. and wished to protest against- it. The Servian Minister sent a cypher telegram acquainting King Peter-with the unpleasant discovery. It- is called at Vienna an act- of revenge, committed by the socialistic and revolutionary Servian League, known as the •Black Hand.” All the arrangements had been completed for transferring the remains of the Prince to the chapel vault at Topola. in the New Year. On Christmas Day some children found the skull in fragments near the cemetery, find it has been restored to the vault.