27 Oct 2012
An
employee at a library in Indiana was into a rude shock when crack
opened a book titled “Outer bridge Reach” to look for missing pages,
found a gold .31 caliber gun with wooden handle.
The gun was tucked into a hollowed-out space in the book.
“Somebody just opened it up and said, ‘Oh my,’” Porter County Public Library assistant director Phyllis Nelson told a local news paper
The weapon was described by police as a gold, wooden handle, A.S.M. brand, .31-caliber, single shot, black powder gun.
Nelson said she contacted police and told them the book had been donated to the library. Thousands of books are donated each month, she said, and records are not kept, so there is no way of knowing who dropped off the book or when, she said.
Police determined the gun had not been stolen and it is being held as evidence.
Nelson said this is not the first time a gun was found in a book donated to the library. There was another incident sometime before she came on staff 12 years ago.
“I’ve just heard the story,” she said.
The gun was tucked into a hollowed-out space in the book.
“Somebody just opened it up and said, ‘Oh my,’” Porter County Public Library assistant director Phyllis Nelson told a local news paper
The weapon was described by police as a gold, wooden handle, A.S.M. brand, .31-caliber, single shot, black powder gun.
Nelson said she contacted police and told them the book had been donated to the library. Thousands of books are donated each month, she said, and records are not kept, so there is no way of knowing who dropped off the book or when, she said.
Police determined the gun had not been stolen and it is being held as evidence.
Nelson said this is not the first time a gun was found in a book donated to the library. There was another incident sometime before she came on staff 12 years ago.
“I’ve just heard the story,” she said.
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