Frank Smith

Well, I suppose there are worse things he could be reading.

Yeah.

Looks like they aren't all library books.

What do you got, Jeff?

There's a couple here with book plates.

Huh?

Owners' names in them.

Book plates in three of the texts indicated that they were owned by a person named Carl Winderman.

All the other volumes were the property of various Los Angeles libraries.

We contacted the office and made arrangements for another team of juvenile officers to stake out on the cave.

On our way downtown, we stopped off at the Hollywood Library.

We showed the librarian several volumes which belonged to that branch.

Her records indicated that the books had not been checked out.

She had no idea who had taken them or when.

11.13 a.m.

We put out a local with a boy's description and we checked with missing persons.

As far as we could tell, he had not been reported missing.

11.46 a.m.

Frank and I made several calls to Branch Libraries.

They all said that the books in question had been removed from their shelves without authorization.