THE EMDEN BELL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 7

THE EMDEN BELL

YOUNG MAN ARRESTED ADMISSION OF THEFT TROPHY SENT OVERSEAS (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press .Assn.) (Received Dec. 6, noon) SYDNEY, Dec. 6. A young German, Paul Kaolmel, was convicted at the Central Court of the theft, of the Emden bell, and was remanded for sentence. The police evidence stated that Kaolmel said: “It you had searched the Mariposa a few days after it was stolen you would have found the bell.” The bell was taken from the Emden after her encounter with the Sydney. It was placed on Garden Island. In August, 1932, it disappeared, but some time later it was found buried in the Domaid.

It was then placed in the Wat Memorial Aluseum. It w r as bolted to a pedestal in the naval section. Last April, the museum authorities were amazed to find that it was missing. The bolt which had held it to the pedestal had been sfiwn through.' Detective-Sergeant Jones and Detectives Bowers, Wilks, and Rehrens, of the Regent street station, were assigned to the task of solving the mystery of the relic’s disappearance. Inquiries were made throughout Australia; all ships leaving for Europe were searched before they sailed. No trace of the hell was found. Inquiries were .then made abroad, ami ships from Australia were searched at oversea ports. Recently the detectives found that answers to all their inquiries had been received; they made a careful study of the information they had obtained. There was much interesting information; suspicion centred upon a resident of Sydney. For more than a week, the detectives endeavored to locate the man. but they missed him on each occasion, often by minutes. Last week the suspect was seen seated in Hyde Park, and the detectives quietly surrounded him.