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 with five police agents and four civil guards came to scarch the house; they established themselves and remained in it four days and three nights. Evidently under these condi- tions it was impossible to obey either the spirit or the let- ter of the law; for it would be impossible that the "in- terested party" or his representative2 should spend threo "days without sleep; the same is true of the two witncsses;3 they must have gone to sleep some time, leaving the police free to find whatever they pleased, leaving the "interested party" without any of the guarantces demanded by the law. It has becn supposed by some people that the famous proclamations and circulars which, as we shall sce later, form an important basis of accusation against Ferrer, were found during this search; but as the official sum- mary of the preliminary examination has not yet been published this point cannot be established. The third scarch took place ten days later. spector of police35 with two agents and four guards re- mained in the house from six o'clock in the morning until six o'clock the following evening, and epent the night in the house. The In- The fourth search, four or five days later, was made by the "Judge Instructor"s accompanied by a captain, a lieu- tenant, and twelve soldiers. They remained in the house two days, spending the night there, and during that time "they removed the earth, searched the cellar, sounded the eisterns, opened a hole in the portal, stripped the ceiling of the rooms, uncovered the cellar,"*7 no doubt to obey Article 512 of the Code, quoted above, which şays that the owner must not be annoyed ewers, and emptied the wine 987 Josete Los Arcos, the mother of Ferrer's wife who took care of the house after the arrest of its oc- eupanta. Who to thie ease were the Al- calde and a cvil guard. br Quoted from "Espana Nueva." 9th and 10th of November, 1909
 * Who in thte case Was Dona
 * See above.
 * Senor Ferrelro.
 * Don Valerlo Raso Negrini.