A STOLEN BICYCLE.
STRANGE MANNER OF RECOVERY.
(Times Special Correspondent.) Wellington, last night. About a month ago a local cyclist left his bicycle outside one of the wharf sheds while he went to transact some business. When lie returned the bicycle was gone, and could not be traced. Yesterday tne chain of one of the hydraulic jiggers on the wharf accidentally missed its mark, ami the slack ran out to the sea bottom. When it was hauled in the missing bicycle was found hanging to the hook at the end of tho chain. When missed the bicycle had no lamp attached, but when recovered a fairly good one was on the bracket, which leads to the assumption that the thief got scared of the law which is dealing severely just now with this class of pilferer, and took this extraordinary way of getting rid of the bicycle.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 270, 23 November 1901, Page 3
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