&;quot;Priceless&;quot; painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 is found and returned to owner&;#039;s 96-year-old son
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&;quot;Priceless&;quot; painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 is found and returned to owner&;#039;s 96-year-old son

An 18th-century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7‚500 during the Great Depression‚ the FBI's Salt Lake City field office announced Friday. The 40-inch-by-50-inch John Opie painting — titled "The Schoolmistress" — is the sister painting of a similar work housed in the Tate Britain art gallery in London. Authorities believe the piece was stolen with the help of a former New Jersey lawmaker‚...