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Conviction: A former Sotheby’s employee was convicted Wednesday of stealing an ancient bronze helmet and a terra cotta bowl from the U.S. auction house’s London office and sentenced to nine months in jail. James Hodges, 34, former head of Sotheby’s antiquities and tribal arts department in London, also was convicted of two charges of forgery and false accounting. He was cleared of 19 other charges. Hodges, who had pleaded innocent, gasped when the jury announced a guilty verdict following a five-week trial in London.