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Ladies 17 00:02:07,959 --> 00:02:13,039 and Gentlemen, the story you were about to hear is true, only the 18 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:19,080 names have been changed to protect the innocence. NBC brings you drag Met. 19 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:35,000 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to Homicide Detail. A gang of quick 20 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:38,400 trigger gunmen have moved in on your city. They've given public notice that they'll 21 00:02:38,479 --> 00:02:43,840 kill the first cop who tries to take them. You know the risks your 22 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:53,080 job apprehend the suspects. Drag Met the documented drama of an actual crime investigated 23 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:58,400 him, solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your 24 00:02:58,439 --> 00:03:01,919 home, your family, and your life. For the next thirty minutes, 25 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:07,280 in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel, step by 26 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,120 step on the side of the law through an actual case, from beginning to 27 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,840 end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force 28 00:03:16,199 --> 00:03:25,319 in action. It was Wednesday, April seventeenth. It was warm in Los 29 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:30,919 Angeles. We were working the night watch out of Homicide Detail. The boss 30 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,120 is at backstrand cheaper detectives. My partner's Ben Romero. My name's Friday. 31 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,719 I was on the way back from the record bureau. It was four minutes 32 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:44,800 to six when I got the room forty two homicide. They Ben, I 33 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,919 pulled the package on the Raymond killing, and that proves you can still read 34 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,840 Friday. He said, at Jill, you pell Fred Lynn? Hi, 35 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:53,319 Fred? What's doing busier than you are? We know what we're looking for, 36 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,199 Just having a little trouble finding him. That's where it is with automobiles, 37 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:01,439 a misplace so easy. Normally they don't. We've got a small size 38 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:04,159 epidemic on our hands. Well, they'll let us keep you. Fred just 39 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,599 ducked in here for a breath of calm air and to invite you to dinner 40 00:04:08,639 --> 00:04:11,240 for the last time. No, wife and I are still waiting for the 41 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,479 first time. How about it, Joe, Ruth's got a new pressure cooker. 42 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,240 Your sister in law visiting again? Oh on the level, not selling 43 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,959 a finger? Come on, who is it this time? My cousin? 44 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:24,959 But she's awfully pretty, Joe? Oh, why do you guys insist on 45 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,240 trying to marry me off? Me and Fred went down fighting, but it 46 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,199 kind of grows on. Yeah, for a while I'll tell me what is 47 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,399 it about a married man? Just can't stand to see one single man left 48 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:35,720 in the world, How about it, Joe? Tomorrow night at seven, 49 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:40,519 Okay, Okay, tell Ruth. I'll be there. It figures it. 50 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,759 He's got to run out of kin folk very soon. Vine. We'll be 51 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:46,519 expecting you got a stake out tonight, but tomorrow I'll be clear. Anything 52 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,560 by nothing. Definitely been just to follow up in the stolen cars. See 53 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:56,959 you man, solong lindsay Joe, you'll like my cousin. Oh never say 54 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,680 die? What a character you just captain it? And yeah, well here's 55 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,639 that Raymond package. Let's check those dates that Backstrand wanted hush. Wednesday, 56 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:11,279 April seventeenth was just routine, a dinner date I tried to get out of 57 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:14,639 some paper work that the chief wanted done. And a hot, sticky day, 58 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,240 too hot to wear a suit of clothes. Sometimes it's like that. 59 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,000 The day starts out being routine. By the time it comes of age, 60 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:26,000 it's got a personality all its own. At ten twenty three that night, 61 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,439 Ben and I were just finishing up the paperwork and head Backstrand opened his office 62 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,240 door ready Rometo just got a hot shot called lunch guts giver, hold up 63 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:41,680 and shooting and Hooper and Esperans a coude three fod three that means red light 64 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:44,439 and siren. It was ten thirty two and Ben and I pulled up at 65 00:05:44,439 --> 00:05:46,399 the corner of Hooper and Esperanza. It was a bar and a basement of 66 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:49,560 a building on the south side of the street. A radio car was there 67 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,519 and the two officers were holding the crowd back. A man was talking to 68 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,480 one of the officers, who turned and pointed to us. As Ben and 69 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,360 I got out of our car, the man hurried over to us. You're 70 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:01,720 the detective that's right side, and Friday and my name's Cummings. Are our 71 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,720 Cummings? I owned the bar. This is terrible. There was a gun 72 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,399 fight downstairs. H come on, where's the ambulance. One of the officers 73 00:06:09,439 --> 00:06:12,240 in the radio car said, we needed the coroner. Did you see the 74 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,920 actual shielding? No, I didn't. Here's a fellow that was shot. 75 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,959 Joan's from a crime man, hell Friday from highly what we got here pretty 76 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,079 bad. Looks like a shotgun close range. He really got in the way. 77 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:34,199 Ellie. Then yeah, it's Fred Lindsay motor theft. He was on 78 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,920 a steak out. Ye tell us about him. It's coming you know this 79 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,920 fellow, sergeant, Yeah, we know him. What happened? We had 80 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,560 a hold up to night three men, Yes, go on. Well, 81 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,079 business was good, real good. We had a large crowd, and I 82 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,240 was happy about that because I've been trying to sell out for a long time 83 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,519 now. I've been showing the place of different parties all week long. I 84 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,839 had a fellow coming over tonight to take a look at it. What time 85 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,399 was there? Listen an hour ago, about nine thirty, see, go 86 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:02,240 ahead. It was almost time for this man to show up. So I 87 00:07:02,319 --> 00:07:05,480 called Eddie, that's my bartender, and I told him to kind of keep 88 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,240 a lookout for the man because I was going back to the office to get 89 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:18,199 the books ready to show. You know how it is. You'll watch for 90 00:07:18,279 --> 00:07:20,519 him, Eddie, you bet? I will. You want me, I'll 91 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:28,360 be back in the office. Keep your mouth shut and stand still. Huh 92 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:30,639 you only spot, don't you? Well? Yes, what is this? 93 00:07:30,839 --> 00:07:33,279 You're the boy? We want to say? Which one of you? All 94 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:36,120 three of us? What's going on? What's it looked like? Genius? 95 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,560 That's a stick up. I haven't any money to go to the bank on 96 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,600 Thursdays, don't you Well, I made my deposit to day instead. I've 97 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,560 been watching you for a month. Now, don't give us dance. You 98 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,360 go to the bank on Thursdays. Now, come on, hand it over. 99 00:07:46,519 --> 00:07:48,480 I'm telling you the truth. I usually go on Thursdays, but I 100 00:07:48,519 --> 00:07:51,000 went to day instead of lying. Heson. We ain't got much time. 101 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:54,480 Look, you can have all the money I've got on me. I think 102 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,839 it's about two hundred. But that's all I have here. Why I get 103 00:07:57,839 --> 00:08:00,360 with him? Take what he's gotten worth shake their customers? Don't no, 104 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:01,680 please, don't do that. You got my money? Isn't that enough? 105 00:08:01,759 --> 00:08:09,519 Now? It ain't? Oh, come on, let's go out. That's 106 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:11,399 about all I remember, Sargeant. When I come around now, I was 107 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,240 lying on the floor of my office. I'n't better have somebody take a look 108 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,519 at that cut on your say yeah, I'm going to right away. There's 109 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:22,360 my bartender. He saw the fight. What's his name, Eddie? Yeah, 110 00:08:22,839 --> 00:08:26,920 Eddie, yes, sir, these men of detectives eddiebe who will you 111 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:28,639 tell him what you saw? It was pretty rough and tell us what happened 112 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,720 when they started to shoot that fellow the corner just took out of here. 113 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,720 Sure was long on nerve, took on all three of him single handed. 114 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,000 Tell us what you saw. You gotta get that fellow's name. Sure had 115 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,720 a lot of nerve. Took over just like he was a cop. He 116 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,360 was a cop. Now, what did you see? I begged him for 117 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:48,240 a cop, but he was sitting up at the bar then nursing a bottle 118 00:08:48,279 --> 00:08:50,960 of beer. For about an hour, I was keeping an eye on the 119 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,240 front door, watching for this fellow the boss wanted to see. So I 120 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:58,120 didn't see the three hold up men come through from the back, but I 121 00:08:58,159 --> 00:09:03,360 heard all right, let's knock it off. You can all see this shotgun. 122 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,440 Anybody make a move and I'll blow your head off. Game us cover 123 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:09,000 the front door, got it, sickles, shake him down, okay, 124 00:09:09,039 --> 00:09:13,080 chance, you guys in the band, keep that music going. The rest 125 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,080 of you of people turn around and face the bar. Put your hands on 126 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,559 top of the barn, leaving there till we tell you to move. Come 127 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,759 on, hurry up, hug it off. Okay, cycle, We'll take 128 00:09:22,799 --> 00:09:24,039 your money, your watch, is anything else you've gotten out. Don't try 129 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:26,840 to be cute and hold out all right, Hue, take off the watch. 130 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:28,879 I'll get your bill for you, old lady. Let's have the ring. 131 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,600 This man they called Sickle, went right down the line, took everything 132 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,720 could lay his hands on. This cop. Your friend was facing me at 133 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,240 the far end of the bar. He was then there, just like the 134 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:41,399 others. He kind of leaned towards me a little. Can you see the 135 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:48,240 guy with a shotgun? Yeah? Where is he centered the room? The 136 00:09:48,279 --> 00:09:52,399 other guy a still at the door, Yeah, got his gun out holding 137 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:56,840 his right hand. How far down the line is the other guy? About 138 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,960 ten people? Await, Hey, you two down at the end there, 139 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,480 knock it off. Hurry up, Sickle, doing the best I can while 140 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:05,600 it said the first lady. Yo, next to the lady, you get 141 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,320 to watch off. I'll take this water. How far away? Now getting 142 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:13,440 closer? But we better shut up, Like he says, I'm going to 143 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:18,399 take the one with a shotgun. I got a gun. How far away 144 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,720 is that guy? Now? I thought James told you two to shut up. 145 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:22,799 I'll right, Sickle, try to move and I'll break your back and 146 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,559 go ahead. I'll shoot jams. Hang away, Sickle. Oh, your 147 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,720 people at the bar down on the floor. Okay, you were not shotgun 148 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:31,600 prop it famus, can you get a shot at him? Now? We're 149 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,720 not hitting Sickle. Come on you, I'm waiting. You got us all 150 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:39,399 wrong. Boy. We like Sickle, but not that much. The cop 151 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:43,039 was holding Sickle as a shield and the big guy let go with a shotgun. 152 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:48,039 Both the cop and Sickle duck. The cop didn't get hit this man. 153 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:50,679 Sickle fell over on his face, grabbed his arm. The man with 154 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,759 a shotgun went down on one knee, holding his stomach. The man at 155 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,200 the door took a shot at the cop, but he missed. Then the 156 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,720 cop fired three shots at the man by the door. Looked like the first 157 00:11:01,759 --> 00:11:05,679 two missed at the last one cut the man in the leg and he went 158 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,440 down well. By this time, the big guy with a shotgun had recovered 159 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,840 enough to hold his weapon again. I tried to warn the cop look out 160 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,679 the guy with the shotgun. I swam. Cop pointed his gun and pulled 161 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,120 the trigger, but he was out of shell, Boy, Sergeant, My 162 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,440 stomach knotted up when I heard that hammer fall against those empty chambers. The 163 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,279 cop threw his gun at the guy with a shotgun and then ran right at 164 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:31,840 him. You know, it was just to get that cop was trying to 165 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:37,960 run right down the barrel of that shotgun. I glanced at the cop on 166 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,799 the floor, and I tried to follow the three of them as they made 167 00:11:41,799 --> 00:11:43,960 their way out of the bar They jumped into a car out front and drove 168 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,200 off. As a kid, I used to watch Bill Hart take on a 169 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:52,799 whole gang in the movies. That this way right in front of my eyes. 170 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,279 Sergeant, he was an awful, brave guy. Did you get the 171 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,559 license number of their car? I didn't. I couldn't see very well. 172 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,919 I'm gonna pretty good look at all three of the men, or didn't you? 173 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,919 I believe i'd recognize any of'em? Thanks, Eddie. What's your last 174 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,559 name? Bowers? Eddie Bauers got that? Ben? Yeah, you'll be 175 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,720 hearing from us, Eddie. We may want you to look at some pictures 176 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:16,080 for us. Glad to help anyway I can, Sergeant, I hope you 177 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,080 get them in the shop this cup. You're sure we're going to try, 178 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:26,080 act you? Yeah, Eddie was sure going to try the next step was 179 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,200 for Ben and I I make a complete report the cheap ed backstrand they got 180 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,840 Lindsay, Uh that Fred Lindsay are not of theft. Yeah, good, 181 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:35,000 Curt. You see he wounded two out of the three in that hold up. 182 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:37,720 Yeah, it means they'll have to have medical attention in a hurry, 183 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,519 or check all the small hospitals, cover all the drug stores to get in 184 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,799 the line on anyone who's brought the medical supplies in the last hour. As 185 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:46,440 soon as medical detail notifies miss lindsay, I'd like to go over and see 186 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,200 her Smith from the medical details out there, and by the time you get 187 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,480 back, we may have a flash in the drug stores or hospitals. We'll 188 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:54,600 be back in thirty minute, called him. When you get out there, 189 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,039 right, you might carry this with you. Yeah, I'm sick. I 190 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,679 am sick to my stomach about this thing. I want you to get those 191 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,600 two bit punks. I don't want them to see another sun rise. Got 192 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:09,840 that energy? Yeah, man, let's go. Ben Chandler, Yes, 193 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,480 put out an app. I have communications broadcast the descriptions of these suspects every 194 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:31,679 thirty minutes from the further office. Oh so, m thanks, Ruth down, 195 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,399 Ruth, you know how we all feel. It's all right, Joe. 196 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,360 You're married to a copy I guess you meant to expect him like this. 197 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,279 You don't like that. Bret and I used to discuss the possibility of 198 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,480 this. Used to worry about him. I used to worry a lot Joe, 199 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:56,360 all those nights when he was away in days, I used to worry. 200 00:13:56,519 --> 00:14:01,799 Now I know it's safe. Anything you water you need, thanks, 201 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,159 No, Joe, anything at all that I can do, Yes, Joe, 202 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,720 if there's something you can do. Even Benners signed this case. An 203 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:16,639 that's right, and be careful thinking that you will meet Ben and will have 204 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:22,360 to face those killers. Jen's wife's rule job. Yeah, Ruth, we 205 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:31,279 will figure did mister Fred more than anything? I want that, no more 206 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:48,240 heartaches? Yeah, thanks for coming by, Joe. How'd you take it? 207 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:56,720 You? Let's go, Joe, Joe, how'd you dig? You're 208 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:03,120 married Ben? You figure it. It was eleven thirty when we got back 209 00:15:03,159 --> 00:15:07,039 to Central Division. As we walked into the squadroom, Backstrand was waiting for 210 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,240 us ready. We just got our first lead. We've located a druggister. 211 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,159 City sold some medical supplies to a man about forty five minutes ago. A's 212 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,519 the address pretty close to the scene of the shooting. I about to see 213 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,600 him right away. The Rex Pharmacy was exactly Port Pool, blocks from the 214 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:24,559 Red Feather Bar where the shooting took place. Rex Pharmacy was like your corner 215 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:30,200 drug store, complete with apothecary jars and shower curtains. The druggist was the 216 00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:33,639 same little man who's been prescribing sulf run molasses since you were a kid in 217 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:37,279 school. Just about ready to close. What can I do for you, 218 00:15:37,399 --> 00:15:41,720 gentlemen. We're from the police department. I didn't halfway expecting you, fellows. 219 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,360 We got a report that you sold some medical supplies to a man about 220 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,120 an hour ago. Yes, sir, that's right. It's like I was 221 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:50,159 telling to those other officers that we hear a while ago, and it was 222 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,720 something funny about that to the fellow, how you mean my own for one 223 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:56,559 thing? You in? He is sweating quite a bit. Of course, 224 00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:00,679 it's a all night, but he seemed terribly nervous. Anybody with him, 225 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,039 No, he was all by himself. What did he buy? Well, 226 00:16:03,519 --> 00:16:07,200 wasn't so much what he bought, but how much? What do you mean? 227 00:16:07,879 --> 00:16:11,919 You know how most people buy iodine a little ten cent bottle. He 228 00:16:11,039 --> 00:16:15,679 bought a couple of pints. Then there was all that gause and add should 229 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,039 take bought enough to repair a small army, often a box of swabs. 230 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:25,200 Then he asked me something that made me wonder what was there? Ask me 231 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:27,360 if I had something to probe with. That's just the way he said it, 232 00:16:29,039 --> 00:16:32,200 something to probe with. I asked him, Oh, what do you 233 00:16:32,279 --> 00:16:36,879 want to probe for? What he say said a splinter? I told him 234 00:16:37,159 --> 00:16:38,759 so he need it, would do the trick? He said, forget it, 235 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,000 and then he paid me and walked out. Huh could you describe the 236 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:47,919 man? A small man, dark like, I said, awful, nervous 237 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,399 and think you could identify? Oh? Sure I could if I ever saw 238 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,919 him in What did he live on for? Or was their car outside? 239 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,840 Left? In? A cab up right out in front? Couldn't miss it? 240 00:16:56,279 --> 00:17:00,480 Did you hap him to take down the license number? Well? No 241 00:17:00,679 --> 00:17:03,759 I didn't, but I did jump down the taxi cab number. Would that 242 00:17:03,839 --> 00:17:11,240 help? Taking down cab numbers isn't exactly in a druggist line. But because 243 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:15,519 he had the presence of mind to do that, one small thing, we 244 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,920 accomplished in ten minutes what could have well taken as many weeks. Maybe with 245 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:23,160 this small wedge we could do what backstrand wanted us to do get the killers 246 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,079 before another sunrise. Well, it was close to midnight when we stepped into 247 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:30,799 the drug store phone booth. I called the cab company got the night supervisor. 248 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:33,799 I gave him the number of the cab and he checked his location chart. 249 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,519 Cab three seven five was operating out of a stand at Wilsher and green 250 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:41,200 Haven. He was the right driver and he remembered the fair. Sure, 251 00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:45,720 I know you mean A little guy seemed in a big hurry. It was 252 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:48,519 a long feed though. I took him on to Englewood. Will I check 253 00:17:48,559 --> 00:18:02,599 my look exact here? It is Joe fifteen twenty three, imperialist in the 254 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,960 room and happy. Come on, we'll check with the landlady kind of like 255 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,440 you. Yeah, let's stand away from the door. Huh. Might not 256 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:12,759 be the landlady who answers, Yeah, that's what do you want? Police 257 00:18:12,799 --> 00:18:22,319 department? Oh, let me see your badge. They are ma'am, I'm 258 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:29,680 Sergeant Friday. This is Romero homicide right now? What do you want? 259 00:18:29,759 --> 00:18:32,720 I run a good clean room and house. It's not the house lady, 260 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:36,000 it's one of your tenants. Which one. That's what we want you to 261 00:18:36,039 --> 00:18:38,240 help us on. Do you men know what time it is. Come back 262 00:18:38,279 --> 00:18:41,400 here in the morning. Sorry, this can't wait till morning. Now, 263 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,400 I'm not going to invite you in. We'll talk right here on the porch 264 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,359 and keep your voices down. My tenants work during the day. Whatever you 265 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:48,400 say, ma'am, Now, what is it you want to know? We're 266 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,680 looking for a small dark ma'am. I got three here could fit that description. 267 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:56,200 No, he came in late tonight, about forty five minutes ago. 268 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,599 I wouldn't know about that. I don't spy on my people. This is 269 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,079 very important. You'll have to keep your voices down. Sorry, he's dark 270 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,119 and he's small. I didn't you say it was dark? You must mean 271 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,279 mister Tindall. What's he done? What's his room? Number? Room ten? 272 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:12,960 But I can't allow you to tramp up and down the stairs at this 273 00:19:14,079 --> 00:19:15,839 hour. You'll wake all the rooms. We'll be as quiet as he wants 274 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,440 us to be. What do you mean by that? Is it gonna be 275 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:22,559 trouble? I don't know, lady. Where do we find number ten at 276 00:19:22,559 --> 00:19:25,480 the end of the whole last room on the right, And keep your voices 277 00:19:25,559 --> 00:19:27,359 down. If you're just waiting your room, lady, we'll call you for 278 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:33,720 a watching. Okay, here we are, so keep the door clear, 279 00:19:33,799 --> 00:19:37,440 Ben, we might have trouble. Think they all in there. We'll know 280 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:51,920 in a minute. What is it? What do you want? Only his 281 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,799 department? I'll try to Clauded, Joe, what do you want with me? 282 00:19:53,839 --> 00:19:56,880 What are you looking for? Claude? It's Mby. What'd you say? 283 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,559 Your name was Tundall? Bob Tundall, new name but same face, 284 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,759 on't Joe? Yeah? How long you've been on a jail? Tenny? 285 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:06,799 Tenny, it's tend Your name's not Candle, it's Sam Tenny. We sent 286 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:08,000 you up on a robbery charge four years ago. And isn't that right? 287 00:20:08,039 --> 00:20:11,680 Tenny? No, it's not right. You've got the wrong man. I've 288 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,359 never been in jail, Yes you have, because we sent you there. 289 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:17,119 Now, come on, who would you buy the medical supplies for? I 290 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,119 don't know what you're talking about. Look, Tenny, it's a hot night 291 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,480 and it's late, so let's cut out the smart talk. Huh who would 292 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,680 you buy? It was a medical supplies for? Tenny? Look, you're 293 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,839 a two time loser right now. Who you're shielding? You've got nothing on 294 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,279 me. I ain't done a thing. We can prove that you bought those 295 00:20:30,279 --> 00:20:33,440 supplies tonight, and it can go kind of hard on you. So let's 296 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,720 open up. I've been out of this room all right long. We got 297 00:20:36,799 --> 00:20:37,759 a druggist and a cab driver. We'll make a liar out of you. 298 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,599 I still don't know a thing. At cab driver brought you home here forty 299 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,039 five minutes ago? Where were you? Was that on a date? Is 300 00:20:45,079 --> 00:20:48,279 that who you bought the medicine for? Ben? Call a druggist and get 301 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:52,480 that cab driver. We'll take Tenny downtown, all right? All right? 302 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,200 I did was buy the bandages and stuff. I got nothing else to do 303 00:20:56,279 --> 00:20:59,519 with this. Would you buy the staph four? You know everything else? 304 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:00,960 You'll figure on our look, Punk, we know there were three of them. 305 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:03,079 One of them killed a cop. We're gonna get to them in Tenny. 306 00:21:03,079 --> 00:21:07,440 You're not gonna stand in our way. It killed something. He didn't 307 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,400 tell me that. Who didn't? I don't any part of murder. I'm 308 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,160 gonna tell you who it was, but I'm clean to do with it. 309 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,079 I was trying to help him out of a jam. Who are you trying 310 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:18,319 to help? Roy? Beemus, Charlie Sickle and Red Jeans. They didn't 311 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:22,559 tell me nothing about murder. Well, why'd you have? They often be 312 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:25,039 a pretty good piece of changed to run an air informant. You know I 313 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:26,480 got paid for That's that's all I had to do with it. Why did 314 00:21:26,519 --> 00:21:30,480 you deliver those medical supplies? I have to tell you that I'm afraid of 315 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:33,279 James. He's awful free with a shotgun. We'll give you a protection. 316 00:21:33,319 --> 00:21:36,759 Now, where are they going to go to jail? Did you get them? 317 00:21:36,759 --> 00:21:40,279 You'll get protection. Give us the address. It's an apartment house. 318 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:48,079 It's around the corner from here, the Blue Eagles. We took Sam Tenny 319 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:52,519 down a central division with us on the way downtown. He told us that 320 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:55,960 Red Jans and the other two had their room at the Blue Eagle barricaded. 321 00:21:56,599 --> 00:21:59,440 Tenny said that they told him that they'd kill the first cop we tried to 322 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:02,680 take him, but we knew they were wounded. He told us that Sickle 323 00:22:02,759 --> 00:22:04,759 had an arm wound, Famous got it in the leg, and Chance had 324 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:08,160 a slug in his side. We forgured they'd be weak from the loss of 325 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,319 blood and we could take them easy. You'll ever take those guys easy. 326 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:15,359 Sure, they lost a little blood, but they had enough fight left to 327 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,480 stuck that room, and they got enough left to kill you if you try 328 00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:25,359 to take'em. On the way to headquarters, we stopped at an all 329 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,839 night drive in and called head Backstrand. We told him we had a radio 330 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:32,039 car watching the Blue Eagle. We gave him the whole story and told him 331 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:34,079 we were on our way in. By the time we checked in the homicide, 332 00:22:34,079 --> 00:22:37,079 he had had the plan all mapped out. It was two twenty five 333 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:41,400 am. Here's the map from the city engineers. It's one city block bounded 334 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,880 on the north by Hawthorne Street. On the south Lawndale eleven on the east 335 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,359 sixteenth Street into the west seventeen Blue Eagle apartment houses. Right here on Sixteenth 336 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,319 and Hawthorne, West of the Blue Eagle is a private residence. South of 337 00:22:52,319 --> 00:22:56,839 the Blue Eagle and sixteenth is of vacant lut There are twelve apartments in the 338 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,200 building. The men we wandered on the second floor eleven. That apartment faces 339 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,480 east on sixteen. How do you want to handle it in I'm Baker and 340 00:23:04,519 --> 00:23:08,039 mooreha, I'm will evacuate the private residence ready, and you're Maraqui not the 341 00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:11,880 apartment building right skim. All traffic is being diverted. In time block is 342 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,960 completely isolated. We'll throw up a cordon. Since we clear the residence, 343 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:18,880 nobody goes in, nobody goes out. Will you brief us again when we 344 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,039 get their d I'll give you all the briefing you need right now. Get 345 00:23:22,079 --> 00:23:26,799 this. These guys have already killed a cup. I don't want to lose 346 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:30,640 anymore. You know, they're heavily armed and they're desperate. Have the men 347 00:23:30,759 --> 00:23:34,319 draw shot guns to your guests and Tommy guns him. All right now, 348 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,839 we're not going in after these punks like tin horn heroes. We're going after 349 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:44,119 them and we're coming out alive, all of us. What time is it? 350 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,000 Right in? Two thirty seven? Not much time they'll sun up, 351 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:55,680 is it? It was a code too that means red light and move fast 352 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,599 Backstrand figured we needed six squad cars form into a car, the police, 353 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:03,839 public address truck, ambulance and floodlights. Ben checked out the weapons to the 354 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,200 men, and by two forty six we pulled out of the Central Division garage. 355 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,960 We slid into the area at three twenty am. The six squad cars 356 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,720 and the public address truck took up their positions. The floodlights were rigged and 357 00:24:15,759 --> 00:24:19,160 ready to turn on. At Backstrand's command, the machinery was set to roll 358 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,200 as soon as we got the neighborhood cleared. Ben and I evacuated the Blue 359 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,839 Eagle apartment house. How many does that make you? Well, we've cleared 360 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,759 nine. Two to go. Here's apartment ten. Thank killers are right next 361 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,799 door. Yo, I'd like to kick at the door in right now, 362 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:45,319 take your time, Ben, we'll get to him quiet now. Yeah, 363 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,880 what is it? Police department? May we come in? Yeah? Of 364 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:52,440 course, what's the trouble, No trouble. We're evacuating the building and we'll 365 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:53,759 have to ask you to leave with the back door. We'll notify you when 366 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:56,440 to return. Please leave quietly and lock your door. What's going on? 367 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:03,559 No time to explain. Thank you very much for corp. Okay, now 368 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:15,079 let's skip eleven and go to twelve. Yeah, whom police department? Can 369 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,480 we come in? Sorry? Disturb it this now we're evacuating the building. 370 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,079 Please hurry and leave quietly with the back door. You'll be notified when returned. 371 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:29,200 Lock your door when you leave. It was four ten am. Everything 372 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:33,000 was set now. The neighborhood was completely cleared. The entire block was empty 373 00:25:33,039 --> 00:25:36,559 except for Apartment eleven on the second floor of the Blue Eagle. I left 374 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:38,960 Ben to watch the door of Apartment eleven. I went downstairs and across the 375 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,279 street to join the rest of the men. It was ed Backstran's show from 376 00:25:42,319 --> 00:25:49,519 here on, I'd said, ed all seven, Baker, Moreheim, all 377 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,480 clear, All clear, Baker, you and Moreheim take three men and cover 378 00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:59,000 the rear of the building. Right, there's the detail covered north on the 379 00:25:59,039 --> 00:26:02,359 street. They're all set at about the big and taken care of the rest 380 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,079 of you men. Freddy and I are going into the building. We'll try 381 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,519 to get him to come out. Now. Johnson come with us and keep 382 00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:18,039 his COVID. Let's go on. Apartment elevens up at the head of the 383 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:26,519 stairs. Head ran and the action Ramorrow, lot of thanks. Keep down 384 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:33,640 all of you now, I'll try to get him out. Chance Famous Sickle, 385 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:37,720 you're all alone. The building's clear. Come on off with your hands 386 00:26:37,759 --> 00:26:41,720 behind your head. Come on out, Chancer, we'll come in and catch 387 00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:45,680 you. You emmy, hey, here, you come on. Let's get 388 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,559 out to the street. Johnson, cover that door and be careful. Keep 389 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:53,279 down right. Friday Romero, come with me. We left Sergeant Johnson to 390 00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:56,960 watch the door and we ran out on the sixteenth Street and ducked down behind 391 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,640 the police sound truck. The flood lights hit the side of the building. 392 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:06,839 String grabbed the microphone. Johns Beamus Sickle. He's got thirty seconds to come 393 00:27:06,839 --> 00:27:10,880 down out of that room. Walk out backwards with your hands behind your head. 394 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:21,839 Stay together up, don't sign out thirty seconds chance they're making a tough 395 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:27,559 head love some two guys through that window, right, Come on off, 396 00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:30,359 Famis. We're giving you a chant that's bother than you gave that cop in 397 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:37,559 the bar. Come on out. That's jan said. He isn't coming out. 398 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,400 He must have got Johnson, of course in another room. Shoot the 399 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,559 guess in there. That's not gonna get him on head. Give it time, 400 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:52,960 bloody one those blood lights in up there. Play rate that second floor 401 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:00,279 with the Tommy got. Let's keep him in one role, right, your 402 00:28:00,319 --> 00:28:03,079 fair friendy George, give us a couple of masks. Ben and I are 403 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,279 going in the rest of you men, concentrate your fire on those two rooms. 404 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,640 Hit him down here, your math Joe, let's go come on. 405 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:19,839 Put that mask on Ben and keep down where. Somebody coming down inside stairs, 406 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,759 duck Benny's got a gun. I got cop, and get out of 407 00:28:23,799 --> 00:28:26,920 my way. About you. You haven't got a chance. I'm coming true 408 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:32,480 cop up. Thank you stopping Joe. Can you see Johnson? No, 409 00:28:32,559 --> 00:28:33,799 it's too much. Guess man, all right? You two up there? 410 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,480 We got one of you, the other two come on out, Yo. 411 00:28:38,039 --> 00:28:40,920 Think we've got him? I don't know. Can you see Johnson? No? 412 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:42,359 Joe still too thick, and I'm going in. Ben cover me. 413 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,799 Come on, we know there are two of you up there. Guess one 414 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:52,880 comer. Throw you a gun down the stairs ahead of your high huck gun, 415 00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:56,000 Joe, James, I see him. I'll take him at the foot 416 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,559 of the stairs. All right, I got my hands up. I found 417 00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:02,240 Johnson. Ben all right, chance outside, come on move. Put the 418 00:29:02,279 --> 00:29:07,039 handcuffs on him. Ben, I'll cover you. Ask John, I don't 419 00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:10,400 know, And get the ambulance crow over here, Jans. Who's this other 420 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,039 guy with gut? Beamis? How about circle? I said just one, 421 00:29:12,079 --> 00:29:15,160 didn't I cover? Never mind us my talk, James, and I'll just 422 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,880 answer the question. Sile wanted a little a long time ago, so I 423 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,079 let him out. He's upstairs I let him out the back way, and 424 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:23,559 you shot him. He wanted out, didn't he. All right, we'll 425 00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:30,000 take him in Johnson's in the ambulance. I'll see you in the office, 426 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:47,599 rights Gaber. How about a smoker, Yeah, here you go. Backstream 427 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:53,200 said he didn't want those men to see another sun ran. Yeah, five 428 00:29:53,279 --> 00:30:00,920 minutes to five June, so in ordably. Yeah, good luck man, 429 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:15,000 it's cloudy. Yes, we'll never know her. The story you have just 430 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:22,839 heard was true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent. Edgar 431 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,119 read Jens, the sole survivor, was tried and convicted and sentenced to be 432 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:37,960 put to death in the state penitentiary in the manner prescribed by law. You 433 00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:41,160 have just heard the fourth in a new series of authentic cases from official files. 434 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,359 Technical advice for Dragnet comes from the office of C. B. Horrell, 435 00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:52,079 Chief of Police, Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is dedicated to 436 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:59,440 radio car Patrolman Horace E. Sawyer of the Denver, Colorado Police Department, 437 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:06,200 who, on the evening of March eighth, nineteen thirty seven, gave his 438 00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:22,240 life so that yours might be more secure. Dragnet came to you from Los 439 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:41,839 Angeles. This is NBC the National Broadcasting Come welcome back. Well, obviously, 440 00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:48,839 this one was a really solid and exciting story once again, so very 441 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:55,279 different from what Dragnet would become. And I'm not gonna be labor every point 442 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,759 at which it's different than Dragnet's final form, because that's kind of boring and 443 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:06,359 laboring the point. But I will focus on one thing that stood out to 444 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:13,440 me. It was when Friday said, what a code three w after Backstrand 445 00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:19,759 said to head to a location. Code three most often a term, particularly 446 00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:24,359 if it's a common term, but be used without any explanation. And to 447 00:32:24,519 --> 00:32:30,400 me, that's actually more effective because it's a case where they don't tell you 448 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:37,000 what a code three is, but they so often show you what a code 449 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:44,319 three is. In the same way with so many other very common police codes 450 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:50,440 and terms. They're so often used without explanation, but when you listen to 451 00:32:50,519 --> 00:32:55,480 the program enough or watch it on television, you quickly begin to pick up 452 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:02,319 what the lingo means. It's a case of that writing rule show don't tell 453 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,240 show us what a code three is, don't tell us what it is, 454 00:33:07,559 --> 00:33:13,839 and in many ways it's almost like you're learning the police language by immersion and 455 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:17,759 just picking up Okay, this is what R and I is without them telling 456 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:22,960 you what the department does. But of course this is early days and they're 457 00:33:23,039 --> 00:33:28,519 still taking time to explain things to the public, which slows down the story 458 00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:30,920 a little bit, but I don't think harms things too much. And another 459 00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:39,680 thing you get to here is ed Backstrand stepping up and the captain really taking 460 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:47,640 leadership and involvement in the cases. It's interesting in these early episodes because later 461 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:55,119 on in the series the focus would be entirely on Sergeant Friday and his partner, 462 00:33:55,759 --> 00:34:01,240 and for understandable plot reasons, and most of the time for understandable realistic 463 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:07,719 reasons. Captains are not often involved in the day to day working of a 464 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:14,760 case, particularly in going into the field, but there are times when they 465 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:20,559 do step forward in a more public facing way, and I think that the 466 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:27,519 role he played in the capture was entirely realistic. I also find myself wondering 467 00:34:28,079 --> 00:34:32,960 whether there was a bit of a change in the way that police captains worked 468 00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:38,400 in the LAPD at some point, and if there was a time when they 469 00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:44,519 were more involved, because you know, you have all sorts of things like 470 00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:51,800 backstrand driving along with Friday and Romero to the scene of a crime. Was 471 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:59,440 that sort of thing ever realistic or was it just kind of a dramatic license 472 00:34:59,559 --> 00:35:02,079 taken? So I was a little curious about that. But other than that, 473 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:09,000 a solid episode that's still fund a lesson to even though it's very different 474 00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:15,239 from where Dragnet would end up going. All right, Well, listener comments 475 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:21,159 and feedback now, and along with her donation, Antoinette Rights, I really 476 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,719 enjoy your show. Well, thank you so much. And now it's time 477 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:29,519 to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Sheila, Patreon 478 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:35,239 supporter since February twenty twenty, currently supporting the show at the Detective Sergeant level 479 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,320 of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so much 480 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:43,000 for your support, Sheila. And that will do it for today. 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