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Stolen Stained-Glass Window
Reappears in Cemetery

A rare stained-glass window stolen from the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts, was returned as mysteriously as it had vanished months earlier after a cryptic phone message led the library director to a local cemetery.

Director Ann McLaughlin received an anonymous phone call May 9 from a tipster who told her, “Write this down: Willow Street, under the Curtis tomb. You’ll find your window.” Heading to the Mount Wollaston cemetery on Willow Street, McLaughlin and her sister found a trash bag under a tomb with the name Curtis on it. The panel, valued at $100,000, was inside the bag, wrapped in heavy brown paper tied with twine. “It’s safe and fine. I’m ecstatic,” McLaughlin told the May 10 Quincy Patriot Ledger.

Quincy police, state police, and the FBI are continuing their investigation of the theft. “We do have some additional information about the case that we have not revealed yet,” Quincy Police Captain Robert Crowley told the newspaper. McLaughlin said she is talking with city officials about improving security at the library.

Posted May 14, 2001.

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