Northampton police probe theft of cast-iron urn, weighing as much as 300 pounds, from yard of Bridge Road home

The urn has a value of about $250, police said.

03.09.11 | Photo by Julian Feller-Cohen – A Northampton Police Department cruiser.

NORTHAMPTON – Police are probing the theft of a distinctive cast-iron urn, which weighs some 200 to 300 pounds, from the yard of a Bridge Road home late Thursday morning.

Capt. Scott A. Savino said the urn is green and decorated with a pair apiece of cherubs and goat heads.

The owner of the urn told police that the urn had been in its rightful place when she left her home about 11 a.m. When she returned around noon, the urn was gone, Savino said.

A second urn, similar to the one taken, was left untouched. Each urn is worth about $250, Savino said.

It’s possible, Savino said, that the urn was stolen for the value of its metal. Such thefts have increased in recent years to do the soaring cost of metal.