THE CASE OF THE MISSING PAINTINGS.

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The Internet can make a sleuth out of anybody. Take the case of two missing oil portraits from the Vermont Statehouse--one of Governor Samuel Crafts and the other of Colonel Albert Clark. No one had seen them since the mid-1930s, when the paintings were listed in a Statehouse guidebook, according to David Schutz, curator of state buildings. In May, a friend told Schutz he had seen one of the paintings for sale on the Internet auction site eBay. Sure enough, Schutz discovered both paintings on...