Cannon returned to museum after missing for nine years Montana museum relic stolen by antiques thief who confessed to theft before he died in 2004 DILLON, Mont. - A small cannon, taken from the back room of a museum here by a compulsive antiques thief, has been returned nine years later. Assistant police chief Paul Craft said it gave him "great pleasure" to return the cannon to the museum's board of directors of the Beaverhead County Museum on Thursday night. The cannon, a handmade piece dating from the 1890s, was used in ceremonies when Dillon area soldiers went to war...