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Authorities said they found a cache of books, manuscripts, typewriters, photography equipment, cutting implements and other objects allegedly stolen from the University in Womack's Arlington home...
Johnson and Rooney, who spent much of yesterday fielding interview requests from local television and radio stations, as well as area newspapers, stressed the "tremendous amount of damage" Womack caused...
Harvard police said Womack had been photographing the pages he tore out of the books onto microfilm and then throwing the sliced pages into the trash...
...Womack, who was employed for 18 months between 1990 and 1992 as a part-time book shelver in the stacks at Widener, used a knife and his hands to rip out the pages from books, including many on church history, literature and organic chemistry...
Johnson said Womack had been on the department's "short list" of the 20 most wanted suspects as early as 1991. Police said they had initially suspected that the perpetrator was a library employee because he was able to elude monitoring devices and was never seen exiting the library with stolen items...