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145. plans and eongueatal! While the investigation 4s in progress, Doc is thoroughly * "shookdom". Every article in the roam he refers to as his “office” is minutely ex: minutely oxen ge bolta fastening the barber's chair to the floor are removed and their sockets searched. The padding of the ohair is destroyed, The pictures are scraped from the walls. (Behind * a i pictures, even, inmtes son ae sual packsts 3: @ismantled, The cabinets wrecked. The rolle of advesive tape completely unwound and throw away. Gauze, bandages and absorbent cotten are so verefully examined that not evan an article the size of an ordinsry pin head could be overlooked! and when the "shekedown"has ended we have before us the followings Six one-pound cans of ground Senate coffee, Three roasted chickens. Bight cans of pears. Five oens of peaches. Six jars of frankfurters. Two cans of minced han. Five pounds of leyer cake. . Two loaves of sandwich bread, . Four cans spaghetti. Pour oans of anchovies. A Jer of honey. And « collection of smaller itezs. Doc's stall, also, is tumed “upside dom", the locker being taken apart, and the mattrese, cheirs and pictures completely searched. This, wo gasp when we see it, 4s sufficient to start one in the grocery business, Two large canvas baskets (used ordinarily for re- moving laundry) are brought in and the groceries packed in them as Exhibits A, B, © and ao on, to be produced before the Deputy Warden when Doo comes “to trial".