1953 Press Photo Dr. Viggo Starkcea at tomb investigating death

Was it murder in the tomb: In a snow-covered cemetery in Copenhagen workmen are hacking a way into a brick and stone tomb to get the answer to a 154-year old mystery which is puzzling all Denmark.~~ a beautiful girl- a 19 years old millionairess - murdered in her coffin ? the exhumation is being made after a year's campaigning by Dr. D. Stark~e a danish M.P. Dr. Starkce's grandmother had an aunt, Gerturde Bodenh off widow 18 of one of Denmark's richest man. She owned ninety ships and two tons of solid gold. A year later, in 1798, she died. Twenty years went by and then a secton made a death-bed confession. He declared that he and another sexton reopened the tom lining after Gertrude's funeral to steal jewels. "the girl came to life and asked to be taken form the stimb", the cofin-lid sealed. This confessions, kept secret for many years by the priest to whom it was made, leaked out only after all concerned were dead. Dr. Sterk~~ expects to find that the skull in the tomb bears the mark of the murderer's spade. Photo shows Dr. Viggo Starkce, the Danish M.P. see on right - seen on right, at the tomb during the exhumation.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.

Photo is dated 01-01-1953.

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