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The Tribune Independent Of Michigan
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
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Vandals in Vermillion, Ohio, overturned 43 tombstones in Maplegrove Cemetery and destroyed mail boxes by lassoing them from a car. Sheriff J. Moore's guard deterred cemetery attack; federal agents to probe mail damage.
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Vermillion, Ohio—Vandals who have overturned forty-three tombstones in Maplegrove, the village cemetery, have been sought here by armed deputy sheriffs.
On an evening when Sheriff J. Moore posted a guard in the cemetery the vandals failed to appear. Instead that night they ripped down scores of mail boxes along a road south of the village.
Sheriff Moore said the vandals had "lassoed" the mail boxes as they drove past in an automobile.
Federal agents were expected to investigate the destruction of mail boxes.
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Vermillion, Ohio
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forty-three tombstones overturned in maplegrove cemetery; scores of mail boxes ripped down along a road south of the village. vandals sought by armed deputy sheriffs; federal agents expected to investigate mail box destruction.
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Vandals overturned forty-three tombstones in Maplegrove, the village cemetery. When Sheriff J. Moore posted a guard in the cemetery, the vandals did not appear but instead ripped down scores of mail boxes along a road south of the village by lassoing them from a passing automobile.