EMDEN’S STOLEN BELL
GERMAN CONVICTED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Sydney, December 6. A young German, Paul Kaolmel, was convicted in the Central Court of the theft of the Emden’s bell and was remanded for sentence. The police in evidence stated that Kaolmel said: “If you had searched the Mariposa a few days after it was stolen you would have found the bell.”
In September, 1932, the bell of the German warship Emden was stolen from Garden Island and was found in February buried In the Sydney Domain. The bell was then placed in the War Museum, but in April it again disappeared. On October 18 last a man was arrested in a Sydney park and charged with having stolen the Emden’s bell. The police learned that the bell was smuggled aboard the Mariposa and sold to a GermanAmerican syndicate in America for 20,009 dollars. The police also learned that the bell was buried in the sand at Maroubra for seven weeks after it was stolen from the War Museum, then smuggled aboard the ship in some clever fashion.
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Southland Times, Issue 22192, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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178EMDEN’S STOLEN BELL Southland Times, Issue 22192, 7 December 1933, Page 7
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