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Former LC Curator Indicted for Book TheftJames W. Gilreath, 50, a former American history specialist in the Library of Congress’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division, was arraigned December 5 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after being indicted in November on 22 felony counts of book theft. The indictment accuses Gilreath of stealing 22 rare books, five of which--a two-volume translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, two novels by Charles W. Chesnutt, and John Symonds’s An Introduction to the Study of Dante—are valued in excess of $1,000. All of the books have been recovered. A trial date has not yet been set, pending a medical evaluation of Gilreath to be completed by February 4. Posted December 15, 1997. |
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