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Museum’s loyalists stunned, angered by its violation

By John Ellement

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 19, 1990

Theodora Sweeney’s astonishment turned quickly to anger yesterday when she arrived at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for an afternoon of art and music only to find the museum had been robbed and was closed.

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