State troopers and Albany police pressed a hunt today for two or more men who raided five small Jewish cemeteries in the outskirts of the city over the week-end, damaged three burial chapels and overturned at least 40 tombstone
State police said at least two and possibly three men spent more than three hours on the rampage of destruction. Headstones were split and overturned, stained-glass windows in the chapels were smashed, drapes torn down and religious objects shattered.
An official of the Albany Hebrew Tailors Association said that damages to his organization’s chapel a mounted to from $15,000 to $20,000.
The cemeteries are located on Route 20. west of the Alb any city line. Hundreds of people who visited them yesterday on the occasion of Mother’s Day were shocked and horrified by the results of the wanton vandalism.
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