THE LEADER PICTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 5

THE LEADER PICTURE.

THE BROTHERS TIER CHARGED. BOY DETECTIVES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. On Friday afternoon the police arrested Michael Tier, an elder brother of Francis Edwin Tier, on a charge of complicity in the theft of the Leader picture from the Art Gallery.

During the afternoon at the police station the detectives were putting questions to some 'boys who, it was believed, bad acted as carriers of messages during the ransom negotiation®. From a window at the station one of the woys noticed a man in the street, and alleged that this man had once given him a letter to carry. The man in question, Michael Tier, was then arrested. Yesterday both Francis Edwin Tier and Michael Tier appeared at the Magistrate's Court, before Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., and were charged jointly with breaking and entering the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts between the 27th and ,30th of March, 1910, at Wellington, and stealing one oil painting entitV'd "Southward from Surrey's Pleasant Hills," valued at £SOO, the property of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and stealing the painting in question on or about the 11th April, 1008. As soon as the charge had been rend over to accused. Chief Detective Broberg applied for a remand till Wednesday next, and stated that the charge of breaking and entering this year, preferred against Francis Tier, was substituted for yesterday's charge of theft. The remand was granted. Mr. P. W. Jackson, who appeared ou behalf of both accused, raised the question of bail, and submitted that the charges constituted one so far as they affected the bail.

The Magistrate was not prepared to agree to -t.lils, and fixed the amount it £l5O in one approved security for each defendant, or two sureties of £75 each.