contribution #440

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{
  "subject": "penn_roger",
  "verb": "stole_from",
  "object": "galt_helen",
  "confirmation": "Confirmed. Roger Penn took Helen Galt's research notebook from the second-from-top drawer on the right of her lab desk on the afternoon of Saturday 5 October 1957, between his sign-in at 14:15 and his sign-out at 16:50. The motive is recorded in his own notebook three weeks earlier: her carrot column had given the same band at the same retention time and the same pH as his beet column, which made his 'novel anthocyanin congener' a carotenoid contaminant and his thesis chapter on β-elimination products a chapter on a contaminant."
}