| Show Trespasser Steals Foot Chimney and Disposes of His Haul for In an ironical fling at French jus jus- justice justice justice tice under Napoleon le Ie Petit Petit Vic Vic- Victor Victor Victor tor Hugo once declared that If he were ever accused of stealing Notre Dame he would get out of ot the coun coun- try From Channing Town In Es Es- Essex Essex sex England Arthur Joseph Sayers twenty-five twenty recently stole a chim chimney chirp chim chimney ney feet high writes a corre corre- correspondent correspondent correspondent In the New York Times and confessed the fact at the petty session of Romford when charged with grand larceny by the owner of ot the chimney MaJ Champion Bran- Bran nil fill Bewilderment in the petty session subsided after Sayers told how he he had bad managed to carry carry off such a atall atall atall tall brick structure with an average diameter of eight feet the whole weighing over 30 tons He lie pulled the chimney apart brick by brick They made three loads and he he- had sold them all aU for to a man who had him independently arraigned for obtaining money under falso false pre pre- tenses For each offense Sayers got three thre sentences months months mo sentences to run run con con concu currently cu A. A A few moments before the detec detec- detective detective detective tive inspector of Scotland Yard who had been ordered to hunt down the chimney and capture Its Us purloiner had testified that the chimney stood in the middle of a brick yard the property of ot the major The yard had hadnot not been worked for some years and the theft of ot the chimney was not discovered until un ll as ere cre appeared to tobe be a goad gO than chan chancy o osell sell it the the- major major- Who liy In lb h Northumberland instructed a firm of London solicitors to make an in in- inventory inventory of the appurtenances Defendant told of visiting the ds on several occasions and taking iron away No one seemed to lo take any notice of him and he finally decided to pull down the chimney which he pleaded was In such a terrible condition that if he had not not taken it down it would havo have fallen down |
