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After he had driven his wife to a Hollywood club meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like...
...thanks, not now," replied Mr. Leavitt as he mounted the store scales, jiggled its arm to a balance. He weighed...
Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...
...Leavitt popped out the rear door of the store to reach his car, parked in the alley. Up stepped two U. S. Prohibition agents. They opened his sack, found it contained 19 bottles of whiskey, arrested...
...boys!" exclaimed the astonished Mr. Leavitt. "You don't know what you've done. This liquor don't belong...