[MSN] Museum theft. Boy, 13, faces charge for stealing museum's sword. Concealed weapons don't get much bigger than the one a boy smuggled out of the Strathroy Museum on Wednesday.

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Boy, 13, faces charge for stealing museum's sword
 	    Fri, December 14, 2007
 				
By FREE PRESS STAFF

 Concealed weapons don't get much bigger than the one a boy smuggled
out of the Strathroy Museum on Wednesday.
 The boy took a sword used in the Battle of Waterloo from a museum
cabinet. He hid the 200-year-old sword behind his back as he walked
out of the building. But his theft of an artifact worth more than
$4,000 was foiled when a passerby saw him throw the sword in the
bushes, Strathroy-Caradoc police said. A 13-year-old faces a charge of
theft under $5,000.