True Crime > Man Admits Stealing 118 Documents from National Archive
Bastard.
A Virginia man who had research access to the National Archives pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than 100 Civil War-era documents from the historic records depository, including letters from Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman and George Armstrong Custer.
In his plea agreement, Howard W. Harner Jr., 68, of Staunton, Va., said that he received more than $47,000 from the illegal sale of many of the documents. About 40 items have been recovered, according to an Archives official.
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