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Awful Smells:
In 1932, state officials in Madison discovered that wardens were selling confiscated fish and game. The officials insisted that all seized game be sent to the Capitol. But soon offensive odors began rising up the Supreme Court's elevator shaft.
Custodian Tony Pickarts hunted down the source of the smell -- a rotting sturgeon that a warden had deposited in a basement storeroom. After the fish was removed, conservation officials revoked their provision, and wardens were once again allowed to dispose of seized game locally. |