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<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'>I am
sending the news article., below, to alert people to/about Mel’s Antiques,
which is in Fell’s Point</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal'> at </span></font><st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:
normal'>1634 E Lombard St</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><font
size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'>This business
is notorious for receiving stolen goods to sell—cast iron urns, stained
glass windows, mantelpieces, metal grates—old items that come from CV-type
houses throughout the city.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'>If you
have something stolen, check out this store, for your item might be there—just
as <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">IND</st1:place></st1:State>’s
iron gates were.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=2 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'>Christine Gray
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1><b><font size=5 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;
color:black'>Cast-iron grates stolen from school recovered<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.2pt'><font size=3 color="#666666"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-variant:
small-caps;color:#666666'>August 30, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Two large cast-iron grates that were
stolen a week ago from the front doors of the Institute of Notre Dame in East
Baltimore have been recovered from an antique shop after a former student
spotted them being wheeled in a grocery cart by two men on East Monument
Street. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>The principal notified police after Friday's sighting of the
grates, which bear the IND initials, said Sister Hilda Marie Southerland, a
teacher and caretaker at the 158-year-old school in the 900 block of Aisquith
St. who reported them missing Aug. 22. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:black'>Police said a check of area pawn and antique shops led to the
recovery of the grates at Mel's Antiques in the 1600 block of <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">E. Lombard St</st1:address></st1:Street>. It
was not known how much the shop paid for them, police said, adding that an
arrest warrant was expected to be issued for a suspect in the theft. The owner
of Mel's could not be reached for comment yesterday evening. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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