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41 4 u.Tjaa The Sun-Herald, FACT 3, January 9. 1955 Buried alive and then killed in her coffin 150-year-old murder FACT'S Copenhagen Correspondent A small party of grave-diggers, followed by half a dozen policemen carrying torches and flickering hurricane lamps, walked into Copenhagen's general cemetery. jKABTIN'Si BARGAIN CENTRE Floor, DAKING HOUSE, RAWSON PLACE ENTRANCE between LOWES ami RURAL BANK, opposite Central Station. Sydney. i GINGHAM Cambric Did.

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All three fish were alive. The party was led by Danish M.P. and noted physician Dr. Viggo Stai -e. They stopped in a remote corner of the cemetery at a weed-covered grave with the name Giertrud Birgitte Bodenhoff faintly visible on the headstone.

Five hours later Starcke had proof that one of the most macabre murders in Denmark's history had been committed in the cemetery more than 150 years ago. This week Starcke issued a full report of the grave-diggers' discoveries and' the story behind the murder. Blonde and beautiful Giertrud Bodenhoff was only 16 but already a leading figure of European society when, in 1795, she married her cousin, Andreas Bodenhoff, 33, one of Europe's wealthiest businessmen. Four months after their wedding he died. 44in ORGANDI White, blue.

pink. lilac, lemon He walked away from the hole for a few minutes. When he returned, his rod and line had disappeared apparently pulled in by a hooked fish. Three days later he went back to the same hole and hooked a one-pounder. The fish, in its frantic efforts to get free, got tangled in the missing line.

Shaa was able to retrieve his old lin- and found a 41b fish on the hru-t Incirlp the fish's Use onr Mail and Lay-by Service. Please add postage. No C.O.D. load safety PROTECTION! Nobody to drink with the parson FACT'S London News Bureau The Rev. Hanbury Ashdowne, 70, mouth was another fish, CAMs Safeguard your baby's precious skin by daily use of Cuticura Soap.

Thi. fr.or.nt. In a coma libraries and museums, Giertrud left her hus- A disappointed FACT Correspondent grey-haired and a bachelor, crunched his band's huge land estates in gveobbers had ptonde'r-way through the snow to the Swan Inn, Denmark Norway and Ger- ed the cemetery about the 11 1 i i Ann many. a. fleet of ships and a time of Giertrud's death.

was police files that a gang of i super-fatted Soap, with its rich, deep-cieansing, mildly medicated oils, When a stream of shavings trickled Brings soothing village puD in aimer rortune in jewels i to the road from a conuort to not, She received and refused Sussex this week. they were driv- chared, sensitive! tin vMn Floyd Wiseman 1 Roger Eberts were i fined 410 in baby's skin clear and healthy buy yout Cuticura to-day) Never Again jknden, Ohio. They jet also put to work hand brooms keeping nearly nine ules of highway, long which dozens of burglar FACT Correspondent John J. Roberts, who broke into two Halifax, Nova Scotia, janks and got only one cent in loot, was so disgusted that he called a newspaper office and asked a reporter to send the police to arrest him. He got two years gaol.

Posting letters on buses FACT Correspondent Letters can now be posted on town buses in Milan and Turin, Northern' Italy. If the idea is popular, it will be extended to other Italian cities. had flat tyres. Starcke also located a Copenhagen family named Meisling with a tradition that a Peter Meisling, a part-time grave-digger at the cemetery, made a death-bed confession that he had killed a young woman in her coffin in 1798. When Giertrud's grave was opened up a few weeks ago, police photographers took pictures of the skeleton, while dentists and scientists examined every inch of it.

The position of the skeleton convinced the experts that Giertrud was murdered. The left knee was bent and arms lay alongside the body instead of being folded over the breast Her head lay in a position 61 relumed Eery weeV a long MYSTERY NOVELETTE MS Short irorict by populor outhoa IK let, cartoon, features to FACT Correspondent POCKET BOOK Ipe 600-year-old Latin Ipiscript of Petrarch's FACT Correspondent As a New Year's morning treat, a New York night club-restau- rant advertised: "Two aspirins, tomato juice (small size), black cof- fee, and deepest sym- pathy 25 cents." offers of marriage from England, Fn.ice Germany and Denmark. A few monlhs after her nineteenth birthday, Giertrud died, following complications to an abscess near her left ear, it was said. But in the years after her death there came persistent reports that she had not, in fact, been dead when her coffin was lowered into the gra. The story was that soon after her Giertrud awoke from a coma and heard someone loosening the nails of the coffin.

When the grave-robber threw off the lid, she recognised him as Peter a former employee at her husband's Copenhagen store. Body moved Meisling, who also recognised the coffin's occupant, realised he would be arrested if she escaped. He bludgeoned her to death, stole the jewels she wore and nailed back the coffin lid. More than 150 years later Dr. Starcke, a descendant of Giertrud Bodenhoff, resolved to clear up the mystery of her death and received official permission to open her grave.

He had confirmed after weeks of research in IP Africa," lost in Italy fg World War II, and in the home rf m. which indicated that she Walter Rertittpi must have moved in the cof fin. If ICIAl Ton City, New Jersey, has returned tn Trwti The jewellery Giertrud Bail TOLLEVS BRANDY wore when buried was mis sing. Jt Library. fKhsteiner bought it in )wia 1945 for two car- HOSMTal But oohce will take no action over the solved mur der.

Chief suspect Peter cigarettes and a of lire, without Meisling died in 1819. ping exactly what he was I hen he found out, he re- 13 chess moves Difference of a year in (wins FACT Correspondent Twin boys born to Mrs. Gordon Gimby in Winne-peg have birthdays in different years. One boy was born three minutes to midnight December 31 and the other three minutes after the advent of the New Year. lfu uul Sl no reward, II did tint Avon in two years FACT Correspondent He sat down before the logfire, sipped a pint of mild and bitter and waited for the village to come to him.

Last Sunday, Ashdowne stood at the pulpit in his almost empty church and condemned the Falmer villagers for their "jealously and petty intrigue." Falmer, said Ashdowne, was "a village without a soul." "There is jealousy and not only between neighbours, but also between families," he preached. "Falmer's is a three-wheel religion. Three rites "The people come to church only to have water put on them when they are baptised, confetti thrown on them when they marry and dust thrown over them when they are dead." A few weeks ago the Falmer villagers protested to the Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G. K.

C. Bell, when Ashdowne said, "It would do the village good to have a bomb dropped on it." When he spoke from the pulpit last week-end, Ashdowne invited the villagers to come to the Rectory, where they could "bring out all their dirty washing." If Falmer wouldn't come to the Rectory, he would go to Falmer -in the Swan Inn, where the menfolk meet each night for a few drinks, he declared. Hated him By late this week nobody had visited the Rectory so Ashdowne pulled on his snowboots and walked down the main London-Brighton road to the Swan Inn. But villagers had seen him coming and when Ashdowne walked in the door, he found he was the only customer. The men of Falmer went without their drink that night.

Ashdowne sat over his pint for 45 minutes but the villagers didn't come. Finally he drank the last of his beer and walked back down the street to his Church of England Rectory. The villagers watched from their windows as he went. "Apart from the faithful few," said Ashdowne, "my parishioners hate me." deserved Rasmus Figen, a farmer in Egebaek, East Jutland, verdict began a game of chess with FACT Corrriftn (ply seeking a refund of I Mm 1 uiic nt mi IVu't 7 filed a brief in the IF Court tv.n..t 4U. counsel.

luc gued that since an Kntas defined as a Zfc.t.h.e.bet!" and worse, tne 16th 1JT.L r'u'Q Amendment (Congress power to his brother two years ago, and it is still going on. Figen's brother lives in Australia, but his actual ad-dres. has not been disclosed. So far the brothers have made 13 moves and they say it will take them' two more years before they complete the game. A bitter pill for workers FACT Correspondent Workers at a Copenhagen, Denmark, factory producing anti-drink pills could not have a beer after work without being violently ill.

But, now, the management, spurred on by stormy union discovered the reason: Workers have been swallowing dust from the pills during their production. Factory machinery is to be changed so that the dust is absorbed. rays lo a ribbon IN of tV.7. 4uio-active CHICHESTER An appeal from the parish 1T.4.t.