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...riveted and dumbfounded the art world, with fresh chapters unfolding as if the perps had serialized the tale. Last week came the most tantalizing clues so far in the 1990 theft of $300 million in artwork--including three Rembrandts, five Degas and a Vermeer--from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On Friday the Boston Herald published several black-and-white photographs that purported to show some of the stolen paintings. And the Herald said that in collaboration with ABC News, it had near certain proof that the Rembrandts in the photos were authentic. The paper pointed to some minute...
...shadow of a doubt" that the chips came from the stolen works. Furthermore, its source for the photos was one William P. Youngworth III, a 38-year-old ex-con and antiques dealer who is on his way to jail again on a car-theft conviction. Officials from the Gardner asked to see the photos for themselves and demanded that the Herald and ABC News drop their request for exclusive rights to report on the museum's analysis. At week's end the drama had degenerated to a squabble among lawyers for all parties...
...theft took place in the dead of night on March 18, 1990, when two men dressed as police broke into the Gardner, tied up two museum guards and dismantled the security system. They left with 13 objects, including two certified masterworks--Vermeer's The Concert and Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Strangely, the robbers chose not to lift the museum's most prized piece, Titian's Rape of Europa...
Youngworth says he and Connor had nothing to do with the original crime, and he has a pretty good alibi: both were in prison at the time. Youngworth now faces up to 15 years in prison on the auto-theft conviction. Last month he met privately with Gardner directors and reportedly extracted a $10,000 down payment on a reward for promising to produce some of the stolen goods. He will probably try to negotiate down his sentence in exchange for more details. All things considered, that may be a small price to pay for figuring out who pulled...
...figured that they were actually smaller time. I figured that they were less serious," said Jay Gardner...