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Dowler said the University moves most rare and expensive books from Widener Library to Houghton Library. Tighter security precautions at Houghton mean that there is less risk of theft, he said. Unlike most other libraries, Houghton rules do not allow public access to the stacks and require that books stay in the reading room...
Museum officials said Monday that Mrs. Gardner's collection was only insured for restoration and conservation, not for theft...
...same time, investigators admitted they had few leads in the theft and turned their attention yesterday to what may have been recent, similiar efforts to break into the Gardner and the Museum of Fine Arts...
About two weeks before Sunday's theft, the largest robbery of art in modern history with a value in the "hundreds of millions," at least three people took part in an apparently staged disturbance outside the museum in the early morning, investigators said...
Finally, in the middle of February, the juggling act between judges and jail collapsed. Having run out of prisoners who qualified for early release, Ashe refused admission to a man found guilty of gun theft. The angry district judge retaliated by detaining two of Ashe's deputies. Though a space for the prisoner later opened up in the county jail, Ashe told himself he had to stand up. Whether state courts will uphold his coup remains to be seen. But for the moment, Ashe had seized the better option available: take over the armory, instead of watching even more dangerous...