Stolen Historic St. Mary's church bell found in Oakland Salvage Yard

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Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

(10-26) 14:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A homeless man in West Oakland found the 122-year-old bell stolen from St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, the Archdiocese of San Francisco said.

The 2.6-ton bell was stolen sometime over the last month, possibly by metal thieves, police said.

The bell was covered in rags at a salvage yard near the Port of Oakland, George Wesolek, communications director for the Archdiocese.

"I guess it was a pretty messy industrial area," he said. "It was a salvage yard so we're glad we found it when we did. It might have been just minutes or hours from being destroyed."



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I hope they charge the Yard's owners with possession of stolen goods.

[monmouth]

1. I hope the homeless man who actually found it receives a nice reward

and perhaps a place to live..

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Ding ding ding! You ring the bell with the best proposal!