The Archive · 1937

NAGOYA GOLD SCALE 'THEFT SOLVED

Spoiler of Ancient Castle's Dolphins Confesses Osaka, Jun. 29.

Atier gruelling examination, Kenichi Sasaki, 39, yesterday confesved that he stole the 58 missing old scales of the world-famous Gold Dolphins on top of the Nagoya Castle News of the arrest was released 11 otlock Jost night, with the lifting press bon.

Sesakl, a technician with a criminal record, was arrested in his home here on Wednesday night after the police feared of his attempt to sell six gold bars at a local jewellery shop. "He will be transferred from the Senba police "station where he was frst examined, 0. the Alcht Prefectural Oniees in Nagoya, for further ques-Moning. The value of the stolen reales was put by the Nagoya authorities at ¥.10,000, "The police did not reveal the man-net in which the thief succeeded in detaching the scales from the Dol-thins and (aking them down, past the "The theft was discovered on the morning of January @ by accident fas on oflicia! appointed to study the arehiteetural_methods employed In Building the 50-year-old Castle went to the lop of a special scaffolding spect the Fidge which Is flanked on we. sides" by Jorge gold-sealed "rhe exact date of the crime could Jnot be determined as the scaffolding Was erected last August and a large umber of oficiais, architects and workers hud access to

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