Iron County Record | 1938-08-25 | Page 2 | Defies Curse; Lies in Desecrated Sarcophagus

Defies Curse Lies in Desecrated Sarcophagus LONDON A A curse which i Is said IBid to have cost maD many lives was defied by F. F W. W V. V Jacquemin of Wolverhampton Wolver Wolver- hampton England when he lay down In the desecrated sarcophagus gus IUS of the last abbot of the ruined Bindon abbey at Wool Dorset Donet By Dy his action Jacquemin has hu according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to local superstition doomed himself to violent death within a year Since the abbots abbot tomb was robbed more than years ago aro the curse rune is Ie said laid to have been on it It was in this sarcophagus that Angel Angel Angel An An- gel Clare In Thomas Thomal Hardys Hardy's Tess Tell Tellof of the while sleepwalking sleep sleep- sleepwalking walking on the first night of If his honeymoon placed the tragic Tess Several persons who have defied the curse have been lUlled killed in acci dents