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Article: Crime: Stealing from the dead.(stealing from New Orleans cemeteries)(Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1999
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NEW ORLEANS
A FEW feet away, street musicians play jazz standards and tourists browse; but high culture reigns inside the antique shops on Royal Street, in New Orleans. At Harris Antiques, classical music wafts through the air as patrons navigate a maze of marble and wood. Apart from New York, Arthur Harris says, New Orleans has the country's largest high-end antiques market, and the best of it is packed into a few streets in the French Quarter. Royal Street has a reputation to uphold.
That is why Mr Harris didn't trust the men who came by his shop more than a year ago, hawking wrought-iron chairs and cement pots from the back of a car. The goods looked ...