Sometime last week a thief rolled away with two pieces of Princeton鈥檚 heritage 鈥� carriage wheels that have long been part of the outdoor display at the Princeton and District Museum.
A reward is being offered for information leading to the return of the bright red wheels, and museum board president George Elliott is puzzled.
鈥淲hat was the point?鈥� he asked in an interview with The Spotlight. 鈥淲hat message are you trying to get across? It really wasn鈥檛 a well executed plan to steal something so high profile.鈥�
The wheels, which were chained to a railing, likely disappeared sometime between April 4 and April 5, and museum directors were tipped to their disappearance by a historical society volunteer.
Elliott admitted he hadn鈥檛 noticed they were gone, when he entered the building Thursday. 鈥淲ell, you know how it is sometimes, when you walk by something 300 times.鈥�
Elliott said he can鈥檛 imagine what someone would do with the stolen artifacts.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not likely someone is suddenly going to put it on Princeton Buy and Sell and you鈥檙e not going to see it in the Black Press [classifieds.]鈥�
While RCMP have been contacted, Elliot said he is sure the board is more concerned with recovering the wheels than with punishing an offender.
The theft has also been reported on Facebook.
鈥淭he pressure is out there locally. If it was somebody local who chose to 鈥榖orrow鈥� them and they would choose just as quietly to return them then everything would be done,鈥� he said.
鈥淚f they were to anonymously show up on the front steps I don鈥檛 think we would be terribly upset. In fact I think we would be quite happy.鈥�
Anyone with information about the theft is asked to call police at 250-295-6911.
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