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$10,000 statue stolen from Cape cemetery

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 11 December 2005
December 6, 2005 $10,000 statue stolen from Cape cemetery By JOE HEITZ, STAFF WRITER capecodonline.com YARMOUTHPORT, MA - Police are investigating the theft of a $10,000 gravesite statue from Woodside Cemetery. The bronze statue of a child sat at the Yarmouthport grave of John Ream for more than a decade, his family said. Robert Ream of Yarmouthport reported the theft at his father's grave last week, according to Yarmouth police. It's not clear when the statue was stolen. The theft happened sometime since July, police said in a statement released yesterday. However, the Ream family believes the statue likely disappeared within the last two weeks, Robert said. Witnesses told the family they'd seen the statue recently, he said. The bronze statue - inspired by the nursery rhyme ''Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary'' - depicts a small girl sitting on one leg with the other leg dangling. Bells and cockleshells surround the child's waist. The statue was designed early last century in London by British sculptor Margaret Wrightson, a cousin of the Ream family. Wrightson made two ''Mary, Mary'' statues, said Robert's brother Glentworth Ream. The other statue is in London. The bronze girl weighs several hundred pounds, according to the Yarmouth Police Department. So stealing her may have been an arduous undertaking. ''The concrete foundation was damaged and had pry marks,'' said Yarmouth Police Lt. Steven Xiarhos. ''It appears it was pried loose and then taken away in some type of vehicle.'' This has been a rough stretch for Cape cemeteries. Yarmouth police also found a broken tombstone dating from 1825 in Bass River on Friday, Xiarhos said. It's not clear where the tombstone came from. And a vehicle tore through Centerville's Ancient Cemetery this weekend, knocking down several headstones and part of the fence. At least one of the damaged stones there dates from the 1850s. The Woodside Cemetery on Yarmouthport's Summer Street is privately owned and maintained. The cemetery's administrators have been notified and are helping with the investigation, according to Yarmouth police. ''We just want it back,'' Glentworth said. ''This was a beautiful thing.'' Anyone with information about the missing statue is asked to call Yarmouth Police Patrol Investigator Eric H. Nuss at 508-775-0445, ext. 3919.

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