The Boston Globe, May 24th, 1988
After reiterating his innocence and begging to be spared prison in a 35-minute address to the court, a Washington art scholar and portrait painter was sentenced to three years behind bars yesterday in US District Court. "The jury has determined that you are guilty," Judge Rya Zobel told Charles Merrill Mount, 60, who was convicted in April of stealing rare documents from the Library of Congress and the National Archives in Washington, and trying to sell them in Boston. She ordered the Brooklyn-born Mount to serve three years in prison on one count of taking stolen documents across state lines....
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