Police Find Hoard Of Stolen Rare Books And Documents In Nova Scotia

“A traffic stop last summer led police to search 51-year-old John Mark Tillman’s Fall River home where they found more that 800 allegedly stolen artifacts, that police estimate may be valued at more than $1 million.” Among the items are a 1758 letter from James Wolfe (the British general who won the French and Indian War) and a first edition of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.