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Show j ' ! Emmet's Last Resting Place. I j ' Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet of New York be- 1 lieves he has solved the mystery of the burial of f Robert .unmet, his great uncle, the Irish patriot 1 who was put to death by the English for high trea- l eon in Dublin Sept. 20, 1803. i He has just returned from Ireland after three '. ' months spent in running down Tumors as to the " patriot's tomb and the search finally was narrowed ' down to St. Peter's churchyard, Dublin, in the fam- ' ' : ily tombs. When an edict prohibiting burials in Dublin was issued in 3840 the headstones and tomb covers in St. Teter's were taken up and the surface covered cov-ered with a thick layer of cement, j The stones were replaced promiscuously, mere- ly indicating that the bodies they coram emorated I lay somewhere in the churchyard. Objections of I " families whose ancestors are buried there prevent- I 1 ed Dr. Emmet from excavating. |