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This summer, Harvard police targeted Cole as part of their investigation into the mutilation of dozens of books in the University's libraries. A search warrant was issued for his Belmont home after police who spoke with him there observed cutting tools and hundreds of prints. Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson indicated last week that the search did not turn up evidence against the teacher...
...similar to the way one of the mutilated books (Giuseppe Macali's Antichi Monumenti Per Servire All' opera Inititolata I'Italia Avanti il Dominio Dei Romani, 1810) from the Widener Library was found on May 24, 1994," Rooney said in a sworn affidavit he wrote to request a search warrant. A copy of the affidavit was obtained by The Crimson...
Sources give conflicting accounts of what has happened in the case since the summer. Court documents obtained by The Crimson indicate that Rooney--accompanied by Roger Stoddard, curator of the Harvard College Library Rare Book Collection--returned to Cole's home with a search warrant. Neither Rooney nor Stoddard will comment on the investigation, and Chief Johnson says the probe remains open. But Shapiro, Cole's attorney, says that, as far as he knows, "that matter is closed...
...three police sources charge that the main problem in the investigation was that application for the search warrant was "botched." They declined to explain further...
Asked last week if the police had made errors in obtaining the search warrant, Johnson said" "Nothing was found. The search warrant was not productive....The intent of the search warrant was not fulfilled...