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Show LARGE NAKED FOOT IS SEEN IN OUTLINE ON FLOOR "In the name of the immortal Robinson Rob-inson Crusoe: Whose Friday-like footstep is that?" this morning ex-J ex-J claimed Foreman William B. Lake of thf grand Jun. pointing to the well defined and mysterious print of a human hu-man naked foot on the floor of the guarded chamber of the grand Jury, Just Inside the door. The other six Jurors crowded round and called District Dis-trict Attorney Stuart P. Dobbs to assist as-sist in solving the mystery. There it was -a perfect outline of a large naked foot, with the toes separated sep-arated so as to give it a cloven-hoof form. "The devil and Tom Walker'" exclaimed ex-claimed Hagbert Anderson, custodian of the court house, unconsciously reverting re-verting to his der-p-spa vocabulary, gazing in astonishment at the footprint foot-print "It's a cinch it isn't my foot," he said. "Probably the devil," said the district dis-trict attorney, "but who the dickens is Tom Walker''" Mr. Anderson laughed. "You aren't a sailor-man, of course," he said. "But when the naked foot7" all of them demanded. "You can search me," said Mr. An-I An-I derson "And It Isn't my assistant's j foot. It's thrpe times larpi r. Th.it footprint speaks of a No 12 shop." The footprint was finally given up as something "superscratchical." "Angels and ministers of grace defend de-fend us," murmured one of the jurors; jur-ors; "that footprint gets my goat." "There's another mystery connected' with this grand jury," exclaimpd Hagbert Hag-bert Anderson, with fire in his eye. "There's a big leak in the grand jury room, tears or aqua pura, I don't know, but it percolated through the floor and ceiling and d,own into my family quarters." "That's the only leak. however, from the grand Jury' room." remarked the district attorney. nn |