Booked

Caught in the library

Federal agents apprehended a major fugitive last week in connection with the Tylenol-tampering case that claimed seven lives in the Chicago area in September and October, but seemed no closer to finding the actual killer or killers.

James W. Lewis, 36, sought on charges of extortion and unlawful flight in the case, was picked up at the mid-Manhattan branch of the New York City Public Library. Librarian Donald Alexis spotted the suspect when the bespectacled Lewis, wearing blue jeans, walked by the librarian's fourth-floor reference desk. "I just glanced up at him," Alexis said, "and in a flash, something...

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