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Headquarters: Take those slot machines down. . . . There's a couple of guys coming right over.
Outside: OK.
Headquarters: Stick 'em in the vault.
Outside: Huh?
Headquarters: Stick 'em in the vault and lock it.
The record of four months of such evidence filled 3,000 typewritten pages, which Commissioner Warren turned over to the Mayor. Immediate upshot was that three detectives and a patrolman were dismissed, five police officers, including Chief Culligan, were suspended "pending further developments," grand jury and bar association inquiries were started and anyone in St. Paul who had recently had any shady dealings with the police found himself sitting on the anxious bench.