'Six' and 'nine' are both bookkeeping; 'stolen' is the crime that makes recovery news. 'Searching' is the long night and 'warehouses' where it happened, but a telegram reports the result, not the shift.
Every word, accounted for
Guardswho did it. stays
searchingthe work, not the result. news is what changed
ninea count. you can't picture nine of anything
docksidedescribes the warehouses, not the guards. keep it and you invent dockside guards
warehouseswhere they looked. the what beats the where
finallyhow long it took, not what happened
recoveredwhat happened. stays
theglue. a telegram doesn't pay for it
sixa count. bronze paints a picture, six doesn't
stolenthe crime that makes it news. stays
bronzewhat they are. you can see them. stays
statuesthe thing itself. stays