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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:19:36 -0600
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- From: Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Scapular chain
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- > Robicheaux has been arrested and thrown into jail. He has handed over his
- > belt and so on to a deputy, "even my scapular chain". What's a scapular
- > chain?
- >
- Torkel, would it perhaps be the chain that is placed over the shoulders
- and then down the chest and is attached to handcuffs or steel wrist cuffs?
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- If Jim Thomas were around, he might know.
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- doris
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