THEFT OF VITAL LINKS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17524, 29 April 1925, Page 6

THEFT OF VITAL LINKS.

SENSATIONAL POLICE CHARGE. I WHARF ENDANGERED. (Special to the •’ Star.") * WELLINGTON. April 29. f “ If the third holt had been removed 1 the wharf would have probably collapsed.” said Chief-Detective Kemp at- 1 the Magistrate’s Court when prosecui- c ing Harold Joseph Donnellan, on a charge of theft of two hundred weight of muntz metal valued at £ll 4s, the property ol the Wellington Harbour Hoard.' 1 The chief-detective said that the accused bad been employed on a dredge and it was alleged that Donnellan had c removed two bolts, which were part of 1 the stolen property, from the braces * winch, were connected 1.0 the piles of 1 j the Queen’s wharf. If the third bolt had been removed the wharf would ' hove probably collapsed. In all there v were, five hundred weight of bolts sold 1 to a second-hand dealer. The metal was valued at one shilling jier pound- c Mr YV. E. Leicester, who appeared L for the accused. darned that the holts < ~ ) had been removed from the Queen’.-’ wharf, but that t-hev were collected 1 from a pile of metal on the railway ;i The accused was remanded pending : the report oi the probation officer. 11