IMPRISON PERPETRATORS OF THEFTS AT COLLEGE LIBRARY

New York, N. Y., Jan 19--A book dealer, owning a shop on Fourth Avenue, and recently arrested in a police drive against a ring which stole rare books, estimated at a value of $40,000, from the Harvard College Library, was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not more than three years.

The thief, Benjamin Barris, pleaded guilty on December 21 to grand larcency, covering five indictments. His arrest followed that of H. B. Clarke in Lancaster, Pa., another member of the ring. The latter gave information which led to the arrest of C. J. Romm, another New York bookseller, now in prison.

A report showed that Harris and Romm employed men who were sent to the Harvard Library with lists of books to be pilfered and were paid a small commission for the deed.