Woman guilty of having stolen Glenn Gould items
NEW YORK (AP) — A college teacher convicted of possessing stolen items that once belonged to the late pianist Glenn Gould was sentenced to 60 hours of community service Wednesday.Barbara Moore also must pay $5,500 restitution and help recover stolen memorabilia and other items that are no longer in her possession.
Items stolen from the Canadian Library and Archives in Ottawa include a page with Gould’s signature written 18 times and a page containing an outline for a musical composition depicting sounds of sea, wind and gulls.
Prosecutor Jennifer Martin accused Moore, 62, of Austin, Texas, of stealing the items while she did research at the library in the late 1980s. In October a jury acquitted her of that and other similar felony charges, but convicted her of two misdemeanour counts of criminal possession of stolen property.
Moore could have been sentenced to a year in jail but Martin did not ask that she serve any time.