Map Thief or Good Guy?

From the Chicago Tribune; E. Forbes Smiley says he didn’t do it.

Suspected of stealing from Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Smiley denies that he did anything wrong, although he was found standing suspiciously over an Xacto knife blade. The missing maps had of course been cut out of books with a blade.

It was later determined that Smiley had also visited the Boston Public Library and Chicago’s Newberry Library, where maps were also mysteriously missing.