Vandalism — It is discovered that within the past few nights several of the old family vaults in the burial ground at the head of Broadway of the old Glendy congregation, known as the Second Presbyterian church, have had their locks and doors wrested off and the coffins broken, and the bones scattered around in the vaults. Among other vaults, thus mutilated were those of the family of the late John Gregg, and the vault of the late Capt. John M. Kane. It is a disgrace that such things should occur in the city. The object of the vandals is supposed to be plunder of the coffins of any valuables that might possibly have been buried with the corpses. The city is being built up rapidly in the vicinity of this old burial place, and hence it is the more necessary to use vigilance in guarding it from intrusion.
SOURCE: The Sun (Baltimore) 17 September 1873, p. 1
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