At the Cemetery

Stefan Jansson

This is one of many graves belonging to the Upmark family, that you will find at the cemetery in Västerhaninge. I was looking for the headstone of Herman Upmark, but couldn't find it. He was murdered by mistake. Back in 1871 two men, Konrad Petterson Lundqvist Tector and Gustav Adolf Eriksson Hjert murdered Upmark and his chauffeur Johan August Larsson near Malmköping. They had planned to rob a horse-drawn, two-wheeled mail wagon, but it was dark and they made a mistake,e and Upmark, who was a rail road engineer and on his way home was shot to death together with his chauffeur. The two murderers were executed on May 18 in 1876. They were the last persons to be executed in Sweden. This grave belongs to Elisabeth Björkman, she lived between 1790 and 1851.


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