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Show PRIEST LOST ) IN A CHURCH 1 Had Gone Into the Attic ' j ' and Could Not Get' H Out ' ! " , ' ! Chicago, Dec. 25. Tho Rev. Fathei i . Code, pastor of 8t Edmunds church, in Oakpark. was busy today telling j his friends tho story of how ho was lost in his own church for more than two hours on Christmas eve. Had It not been for decorators who found notes which the priest slipped through a crack there is no knowing how long he would have been a prisoner. pris-oner. Father Code wenUlnto tho attic at-tic through a trap door, carrying a candle, to Investigate a small blaze that had broken out there a little while , before. Ho naa not gone iar imu iuv j-- ; when the candle was Biiuffed out. Tho condition of the lathing and plaster 5 I made walking precarious; the priest j I sat down on a rafter and dropped a I note through a crack. Three decor- r. I ators came In and found a note. It read : L "W "Am lost in the ceiling. Send a f , light. Father Code." The decorators could not figure out . , how it was possible to bo lost in tho j ( celling and paid no attention to it, J walkiu? out of tho church. Thoy ro- I turned In a couple of hours and found other notos. Then they Investigat- j t cd. ! |