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Show PREACHER DIGS UP SOME GRAVES American Missionary Is Accused Ac-cused of Robbing Tombs to Secure Bones to Carry " "Off as Relics. KXW VORK; Kot.': 21.-1 Sensational caargM art made againtt tha Rr. SVah rill of Aadorer, Mat., th Americas Consul to JarBialem, ia an article by Alexander Home Ford which will appear In tha December Decem-ber number of Appleton'a liaiaiiaa. The article ar-ticle aaya in part: ' "Tha EeT. 8eUh Merrill of AndoTer, 3Ism., early In the administration of President Presi-dent Arthur, was appointed Americas Consul at Jerusalem. Jtn entasiaatie antiquarian, ha made no eecret of the fact that bis desire, for the office lay ia the fact that it enabled ' hua to carry on reaearchee in the Holy Land. "Early in his career as Consul, he selected the American cemetery at Jerusalem as a place to die -for relies, and as he turned up the bones of the dead la doing so. Including sometimes freshly Interred bodies, the moat bitter religious warfare Jerusalem has known j ia a century was engendered." - - - .. - |