Art Works Lifted From Princeton

Four days of investigation have convinced detectives that a professional art thief is responsible for the disappearance of two Rembrandt etchings and a Degas drawing from the Princeton Art Museum Saturday.

So deftly did the purloiner whisk the $11,800 worth of art treasure from its hooks that its absence was not noted for about an hour. Museum curators explained the thief had selected his loot so that he never disturbed the symmetry of the exhibit.

Further proof that the theft was by no means an undergraduate prank lay in the discovery that the picture wires were neatly cut at the locker doors which held them to the wall. Such handicraft requires tools, investigators said.