NMNH Mineral Thief Pleads Guilty
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PrintHeindrich Jahn pleads guilty to charges of larceny of government property in the theft of three mineral samples held in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit and is fined $1,000 and deported back to West Germany. His offer to give his collection of minerals to the Smithsonian Institution is declined. Apparently, the stones were taken to supplement a private collection he had been amassing since he was 15 years old.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
May 16, 1975