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five charged with/NEW YORK (AP) - Five persons have been charged with stealing skulls from mausoleums in two cemeteries for sale to members of a witchcraft ‘ ‘coven. ‘1• iQueens District Attorney John Santucci announced the arrests Thursday night after the second skull robbery in less than a month was discovered earlier in the day. As in the previous incident on Oct. 23, the stolen skull was that of a woman.Shortly before Santucci's announcement, police in the Bronx reported another grim discovery.Police called to a supposedly vacant apartment by maintenance workers found an altar decorated ' with a human skull and other bones, a goat skull, horns, feathers and dried blood.The latest crypt robbery occurred between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. Thursday at Calvary Cemetery. Workmen discovered the bronze door of afor Covenmausoleum had been forced open, a casket dragged outside, and pieces of the shroud strewn about. The skull was missing from the casket.The Oct. 23 incident ocurred at St. Michael1 s Cemetery in Astoria.Shortly before midnight Santucci announced the arrests of Robert Blankenship, 18, of Sunnyside; fticky Lee Dalla, 18, of Glen Oaks; June Ann Gallagher, 18, said to be Blankenship's girlfriend, and Ed-ward Glowaski, 19, both of Wood-side, and an unidentified 14-year-old boy.The district attorney said the youths brpke into the two mausoleums, stole the skulls, and took them to the Gallagher girl, who delivered them to Glowaski.He said Glowaski, who is associated with the witches' covenand has the cult name Kaine,” got the skulls to deliver them to the followers of the black magic cult. —
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Yuma Daily Sun
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Fri, Nov 18, 1977
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