THE LOST "LEADER."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13746, 30 May 1910, Page 7

THE LOST "LEADER."

TWO MEN BEFCKE THE COtRT.

(l-RESS ASSOCIATION' TEUtfRAU.) WELWNfiTON, May 29

On Friday afternoon, the police arrested Michael Tier, an elder broker of Francis Edwin Tier, v.ho uas prcviouslv taken into eustcdy, on a cnarg. of complicity in the theft of the picture by Loader from the Art On Icry »» - i»p th* nfteruccn. «t the police station, detectives were nutting questions to somo fcovß Avho, it was believed, haa acted-as carriers of. message dunni, the ransom negotiations. From a window at the station one of the noticed a man in the street, ed that this man liad once him a letter to carry. The man in question Tier) wa* then arrest*^. Yesterday, both Francis in Titi and Michael Tier appeared at the Magistrate's Court before Mt,\\. G. Kidde 1, S.M., and were chargeu jointly ,ith breaking and «ntcring tbo New Zealand Acadcniv of Fine Arts between Mnich 27th «nd 20th, 1910, at We - lington. and stealing one cil P^ ~1 " 1 }?; entitled -Southward From J™"** Pleasani Hills," valued at ■ £fO , tl.t iiroportv of the Now Zealand Academj oi Vino Arts, and also with stealing the painting in ouestion on or about April lltli, 1903. As soon as the charcca hi>d bteu read over to accused Detective Brcberg applied for a remand till Wc«nciday next. He stated that the charge of" breaking and entering this year preferred against Francis Tier was "substituted for yesterday's charge of theft. The remand was grnnttd. Mr P. W. Jackson, who appeared on behalf of both accused, raised the question of bail, and submitted that the charges were one. so far as effected the bail. The Magistrate was not prepared to agree to this, and fixed tho amount at £130 in <ne approved steurity for each defendant, or two sureties ol £.*o