March 7, 2005

And their parents were happy they were hanging out at the library so much . . .

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Four college students have been indicted on charges of stealing a first edition of Charles Darwin‘s Origin of the Species and sketches by John James Audobon from the library of Kentucky’s Transylvania University, according to a brief Associated Press wire story. The report says they were caught after trying to sell the items to Christie’s auction house in New York City. The men are not named, but one is said to be a Transylvania student, while the others were current or former students at the University of Kentucky.

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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