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Show DEPRAVED GHOULS DESECRATE CEMETERY j Bereft of all sense of human decency, i and completely lacking In respect for i tha dead or tha resting places of the i dead, vandals of the worst type have Gtrpetrated almost unspeakable acta In ount Calvary cemetery during the last four or Ave nights. A half dosen small headstones have been pulled from the graves and at least twenty-flve wooden crosses, marking graves, have aeen torn from their fastenings and thrown to the ground, after which they were broken and the graves despoiled. The miscreants have obtained a key to the water. valves and have turned the water on m full force, permitting it to run on the Braves. In aome instance the (low of water has been so great that caskets have been exposed to the view. The lamer monuments have been broken brok-en with hammers or mallets and the big sign at the entrance to the consecrated ground has been torn down and shattered with an ax. t The graves In the cemetery had been decorated and beautlfledj In many In stances In preparation for Memorial day. Tha beautiful, plants, the vlnea and sod have been torn out. and the cemetery looks as though It had been visited by. a band pf ghouls. Father W. K. Ryan notified the police department of the out rase last night and every effort Is being made to ascertain tha Identity of the miscreants who are responsible for the out rag. |