Vt. hotel painting vanishes -- and then reappears

[May 24, 2010]  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- Now you see it, now you don't. But wait! There it is again!

Police in Burlington said a 6-foot-long landscape painting that was stolen from a waterfront hotel has now reappeared, thanks to an unidentified man seen on surveillance video walking up to the door and putting it down before running away.

The Courtyard Burlington Harbor painting, by Malcolm Dubois, turned up missing April 27. Surveillance video showed two young men hoisting the 30-pound artwork and walking out carrying it. On Saturday, the painting was returned by a man in a hooded sweatshirt and gloves.

It was undamaged.

Joe Carton, the hotel's general manager, tells the Burlington Free Press there's no figuring out why the painting was returned, but he's glad it was.

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Information from: The Burlington Free Press, http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/

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