The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Bailey’s Scrap Metal called the Topeka Police Department Wednesday to say it had the urn. Police didn’t say how the urn came to be at the scrap yard.

Police say the 3-foot tall and 3-foot wide urn was taken Sunday night or Monday morning. It was placed at the cemetery between 1912 and 1917 to mark the grave of Belle Hurley.

A historian says the urn was a major sight at the cemetery. She says the damage to the urn is “sickening.”