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Among the instruments it carried to study the threshold of space were: 1) photon counters to detect X rays from the sun; 2) a spectrograph to record the sun's ultraviolet rays; 3) special photographic emulsions to trap cosmic rays, which are to be found at full power only above the atmosphere...
...They had time to get all the phones except one hidden and disconnected before we came in. They used this here trap door set up. We caught one of them on his knees. He'd just heaved a phone down into this hole, and he was closing the trap door...
...about that trap door set-up, Sergeant...
...held up a piece of thick wood, about two feet squared. It was designed to fit into the floor, with hinges on the inside. In the event of a raid, the gamblers threw the phones into a hole and slammed the door shut to conceal them. In closing, the trap door also threw a lever switch to disconnect the phones...
Inside, they discovered gaming implements, an adding machine, four telephones, and dozens of envelopes with code numbers on them for runners. They also found a closet containing a trap door which concealed the phones and threw a switch disconnecting them in the event of a raid...