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It was Monday, July 5th.
It was hot in Los Angeles.
We were working the day watch out a homicide detail.
My partner is Frank Smith.
The boss is Captain Norman.
My name is Friday.
It was 7 58 a.m. when I got to room 42.
Homicide.
Is that you Joe?
Yeah.
How's it going?
Don't ask me.
What's the matter?
I went to the beach yesterday.
Got the sunburn.
I could hardly sleep last night.
I'm just miserable Joe.
It's going to be a week before I can wear a shirt without feeling I got army blanket
on.
Well can't you get something for it?
Something to make it feel a little better anyway?
Don't bring that up either.
What's that?
If you've got any homemade remedies for sunburn, keep them to yourself.
I've had them for now.
Why?
What's the matter?
Like I said, we went to the beach yesterday.
Beautiful day.
They fixed up a lunch, sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, all that stuff.
Yeah, I know.
We went down to Castle Rock, you know, down the highway.
Yeah.
Just had a ball.
Just great.
Kids played in the water and then when it got dark we had a few Fourth of July things
for them.
We had sparklers, stuff like that.
Yeah.
When we got home I started to feel it.
What, the sunburn?
Yeah.
Back feels like it's on fire, Joe.
Legs feel like it got them in hot oil.
Believe me, it's terrible.
Took off my shirt, pants at home, just sitting there in my shorts.
I was trying to figure out some way to stop the burning, you know.
Yeah.
Well, it happened.
In comes Armand.
Oh, that's your brother-in-law, huh?
Yeah.
He's read in some magazine where tea is the stuff for burns.
Right away he starts brewing tea.
Tea?
Yeah.
Can you drink?
Yeah.
I'm on the floor, right?
Flat on my stomach.
I was feeling so miserable I'd have done anything to get rid of the feeling so I just lay there.
And he starts putting tea leaves all up and down my back.
Back of my legs.
It felt real good at first.
Kind of cool, you know.
Yeah.
And all this time you're laying on your stomach here.
Yeah.
Right in the middle of the living room floor.
He put papers down first, you know, so the tea wouldn't drip all over the floor.
Well, you brew the stuff first.
Yeah.
And then they put the tea leaves on me.
But then the tea leaves started to dry.
They crinkled all up and the pain came back.
Just miserable, Joe.
Well, did it do any good at all?
I don't know.
They finally took it off and put some kind of ointment on my back.
Helped a little.
I had to sleep on my stomach all night.
Couldn't turn over.
I just lay real still.
Once in a while I'd fall asleep and roll over and wow, I'd wake right up with a pain.
I tell you, Joe, I didn't sleep at all.
Not a wink.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I don't see what you're blaming Armin for.
Seems like he did try to help you out, though.
Oh, sure, he tried.
The whole thing was his fault.
If he'd kept his big mouth shut, everything would have been all right.
How'd he figure that?
A picnic.
It was his idea, Joe.
It's a hot shot.
I'll get it.
What is it?
Killing down on Bixle.
8.14 a.m.
We arrived at the address on South Bixle.
It was a small neighborhood pawn shop.
A radio card arrived and the two officers had cleared the crowd away from the entrance
of the store.
One of the officers showed us through a curtain into the back room.
Everything was smashed.
Glass cases were demolished.
Clothing from the shelves had been torn down and thrown all over the floor.
At one side of the room, a closet door was half open and in the closet was the body of
a man.
We started to talk with George Armstrong, a victim's partner.
Terrible, huh?
I don't want to look anymore.
I don't want to believe it.
Anybody would do this to Mark.
Mark?
Is that your partner's name?
Yes, I'm Mark Williams, my friend.
We've been together the last 15 years.
We've been together for 10 years before that.
I don't want to think about it.
Would you like to step out here, sir?
Front part of the store?
Well, would it be all right?
Yes, it'd be fine.
I'll call the crime lab, John.
All right, good.
Where's the phone, sir?
It's back there on the wall.
Thanks.
I'd like to ask you some questions if it'd be all right.
Yes.
You discovered the body, is that right?
Well, yes.
This morning when I came in, I opened the store like I always do, about, I think, 745,
I guess it was, something like that.
I see.
I opened the front door like I usually do and I came in and I saw a body.
I don't know if it's a body or a body.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I opened the front door like I usually do and I came in and put the water on for some
tea.
You can see there, you see that hot plate?
Mark and I usually have a cup of tea when he comes in.
I see.
Well, then I went to the back room to hang up my coat.
First I thought that somebody had tried to rob the place, where things, you know, were
scattered all over.
Then I saw Mark laying on the floor and I called you.
They're on the way, Joe.
Did you always open up the store by yourself, Mr. Armstrong?
Yes.
I don't know how it started, but somewhere along the line I'd open up the place and then
Mark would clean up the shop and close.
It's been that way for years.
When did you last see Mr. Williams?
That is, when did you see him alive?
Saturday night.
I left about 545.
He was closing the place up.
I told him that I'd meet him for breakfast Sunday morning.
He wasn't there.
I tried to call him at home, but there wasn't any answer.
His landlady, they hadn't seen him.
Was he married, do you know?
No.
He wasn't married.
Same thing happened to both of us.
Neither one of us married.
What's that to you?
Well, you see, Mark and I are both in love with the same girl.
We were younger.
We used to take her to the park with someone, listen to the band, concert.
Three of us.
We used to go every place together.
Like I said, both of us were in love with her.
Well, things went along just fine for a year or so, then she got married to someone else.
Mark and I were pretty sad about it.
Couldn't blame the girl, though.
The guy she married was rich.
We had a big house, a good family.
We didn't have much of anything.
No, neither of us married.
Just never seemed to find a girl compared with Kate.
Kate?
Kate Dillon.
She's a lovely girl.
This meeting you were going to have yesterday morning, was that a regular thing?
Oh, yes, it was.
You see, about the only relaxation Mark and I had was bowling on the green.
Bowling?
Mm-hmm.
Every Sunday that it didn't rain, we'd meet for breakfast, then catch a bus out to Exposition
Park, you know, bowling club out there.
Mark and I both belonged.
Mark was a sort of local champion.
Played a real good game.
Well, didn't you think that anything was wrong when he didn't meet you yesterday?
Well, yes, I did.
I did it first.
Then I got to thinking about it, and I figured maybe he wasn't feeling too good.
Just didn't want to go out to the club.
Yes, sir.
He'd get like that, moody.
Just for no reason at all.
Decided he didn't want to go any place at all.
Just sit in his room.
Almost always came to work, even when he was in the mood.
But now and then he'd just sit up there and look out the window.
Was there any special reason for all this?
No, not that I know of.
He'd just get like that.
No special reason.
When he did, you just had to sit and let the mood pass.
Nothing else to do.
I see.
Well, did Mr. Williams have any enemies that you'd know of, anyone at all, that might do
a thing like this?
No, sir.
No one.
Mm-hmm.
Was he alone when he left him Saturday night?
Yes, he was straightening up the shelves, getting the things in order.
But he was all by himself.
No one was here.
Have you ever had any trouble with anyone in the neighborhood lately?
Somebody who might have been looking for trouble, maybe?
Well, Sergeant, most of our customers have trouble.
Well, yes, sir, but about how much money was on the premises when you left?
Mm, maybe $1,500.
Where'd you keep the money?
In the safe, right there.
You can see for yourself it's all right.
Would you mind opening it up just to be sure?
Well, if you want me to, but I'm sure everything's okay.
If you wouldn't mind, sir.
Okay.
I know there's nothing wrong here.
43.
You can see for yourself that everything's okay, can't you?
16 left.
Yes, sir, we just want to be sure.
Right to 8.
There.
You can see it.
Uh-huh.
Is the money kept in that strongbox?
Yes, sir.
Who knew the combination to this safe?
I mean, besides you.
Just Mark and me.
We're the only ones.
There.
All the money's there.
Is there anything else missing from the store?
Anything that you can see?
Well, sir, I did look around you.
If there was anything, how could I tell?
I'd have to take a complete inventory.
What difference does it make?
How's it going to help Mark?
Well, it's pretty important we find out why he was killed the way he was, sir.
A beating and all.
If you'd look around, you might be able to come up with something.
All right, I'll look around, but I'll tell you, I don't think there's anything gone.
All right, if you just do that, we'll look over the back room if we're all right.
Pretty bad, huh, John?
Yeah.
Looks like revenge could have been the motive, maybe, from the looks of things here.
Yeah, it'd have to be something like that.
Yeah, but beating.
The way the place is all smashed up.
Yeah.
Frank?
Yeah?
Come over here.
Yeah?
Look here in the closet.
You can see it there under the body.
Oh, yeah, it looks like a hand axe.
Yeah, might have been trying to defend himself, huh?
Well, maybe.
Sergeant?
Yes, sir?
You were right, absolutely right.
What's that, sir?
Well, he did steal something.
The gun case had been broken into.
Yes, sir, anything missing?
A couple of revolvers.
8.32 a.m.
The crime lab crew arrived and went over the place.
In the back room under a pile of clothes, they found a 10-inch length of lead pipe that
was
made of lead.
Dean Bergman from Leighton Prince dusted the room, the safe in the store, and the lead
pipe.
He came up with several clean prints.
He rolled the dead man's fingerprints and then he took Armstrong's.
Comparison with those he'd found eliminated all of them except a partial print on the
safe.
The coroner arrived and removed the body.
Frank and I canvassed the neighborhood, but none of the people in the area had noticed
anyone suspicious in the last few days.
We called the office and Sergents Joe Lamonica and Howard Hudson came out to help us in the
search of the vicinity.
The axe found in the hands of the victim, Mark Williams, had stains on the blade.
A closer check of the pawn shop showed that several articles other than the guns had been
stolen.
George Armstrong gave us a complete list of the missing property along with the serial
numbers of the guns.
11.34 a.m.
Frank and I checked back into the city hall.
Frank, did you get the APBs out?
Yeah.
Notified the pawn shop detail.
Any word from Lamonica and Hudson?
No, not yet.
At least there's nothing in the book there.
I get it.
Homicide Friday.
Oh, yeah, Joe.
Yeah.
No, we haven't heard from him yet.
No.
Where?
Yeah.
Yeah, well, that figures.
OK, thanks.
It's Lamonica.
He and Hudson found a bloodstained shirt in an alley behind an apartment house a couple
of blocks from the pawn shop.
Yeah.
Checked the apartment register and they found a Wallace Holmes listed.
Holmes?
Yeah, Lamonica knows him.
Yeah.
Just served six months for violation of the Narcotics Act.
12.02 PM, we ran the name Wallace Holmes through R&I.
He had a record dating back almost 10 years.
He'd been arrested twice for violation of the state health and safety code and once
on suspicion of 211 PC.
We talked to the neighbors in the apartment building where he lived, but they told us that
Holmes had been in bed with a bad cold for the past three days.
Several of them had taken him food on occasion and stated positively that he could not have
left the apartment.
We then checked his fingerprints against those we'd found at the pawn shop.
There was no make.
A stakeout was placed on the building.
2.15 PM, we checked by the crime lab to see if Ray Pinker had finished the tests on the
physical evidence that he'd collected at the murder scene.
Looks like the lead pipe.
Can you tell us anything about the killer?
Nothing, except he's WMA.
Well, how about the other bloodstains, Ray?
Test out type O, victim's type B.
Well, figures that he managed to hit the killer with the axe then, huh?
Possible.
How about the shirt?
Do you find anything on it?
Haven't finished the tests on the dust particles we found in the pocket yet.
The precipitant test shows it's human blood.
Haven't had a chance to group it yet.
How about any laundry markings?
Anything there, Ray?
Just about to check it.
Spread it out here.
You want to get those lights, Frank?
Yeah, I'll do it.
Turn on this fluorescent.
Yeah, laundry marking here.
Yeah, looks like RJ.
Is that right?
And there's a number there, too.
7-6-9-0-2.
Anything else, Ray?
Hmm?
Looks like that's about it.
What laundry would you know?
Yeah, I think so.
Markings the same type as consolidated central laundry uses.
Big place out on Pico.
Handle cleaning for a lot of small neighborhood places in town.
I can give you the address.
Okay, anything else?
Oh, yeah, a 15 neck and a 33 sleeve.
Average size, not much help, huh?
Maybe I can give you some more when I get through the dust particles in the pockets.
Yeah, okay.
Wish we had a little more to go on.
Well, you got a piece of lead pipe, a stained shirt and an axe that looks like it's been
recently used.
Yeah.
They all connect somewhere along the line.
Yeah, all we got to do is find out where.
2.58 p.m. Frank and I drove out to the consolidated central laundry.
We talked to the manager and he looked through the files.
He was able to tell us that the shirt had been laundered at a small cleaning place on
South Hill.
He gave us the address and Frank and I drove over.
We talked to the manager of the shop.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, it's our number, all right.
Pastor, would it be possible for you to tell us who owns the shirt?
Yeah, I'll look it up in the book.
Let's see, R.J. 769-02.
Mm-hmm, that's right.
Let's see, 642-998-7.
Yeah, yeah, here it is.
John Dunlap, address out on 3rd Street.
Say, what do you want to know about the shirt for?
Dunlap done something?
No, we're just conducting an investigation here.
Oh.
What's the describe that's Dunlap for us?
Oh, sure, I've known John for years.
He's been bringing us things in here for at least, uh, eight, maybe nine years.
Could you give us a description of him, you think?
Yeah, John, he's about, uh, about my size, maybe 5'11".
Weighs about 180.
How about his coloring?
Huh?
His coloring, is he dark or light-complected?
Oh, yeah.
Well, I guess you'd say maybe sort of medium.
Yeah, medium.
Does he have any marks or scars on him, anything unusual about him?
Well, if you asked me that yesterday, I'd have said no.
How's that?
Well, up till this morning, well, John came in this morning and there was nothing that
made him stand out up till then.
He must have had an accident over the weekend, I guess.
I don't understand.
He came in this morning, his face was all scratched up.
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Monday 5.30 p.m. Frank and I ran the name John Dunlap through R&I.
We found no record on anyone answering his description.
Meantime a stakeout on Wallace Holmes' apartment where we found the bloodstained shirt continued.
Ray Pinker had finished the test on the shirt and found that most of the blood on it was
type B, however there were also small traces of type O.
The tests on the dust particles found in the pockets of the shirt netted us nothing.
6.15 p.m. We drove out to the address given us by the cleaning shop.
It was a large apartment building.
Dunlap was registered in the penthouse.
We took the elevator up and rang the bell.
Yeah?
John Dunlap?
That's right, what can I do for you?
Police officer, would you like to talk to you?
Police?
What do you want with me?
Just like to talk to you.
Well, okay, come on in.
You can see you caught me in the shower.
This is my partner Frank Smith.
My name's Friday.
Hi, John.
How do you do, sir?
Hey, mind if I go ahead and get dressed while we talk?
I got a date and I don't want to be too late.
No, it's all right.
Go right ahead.
Come on in here.
What is it I can do for you, officers?
Well, I wonder if you could explain your movement Saturday night.
Saturday night?
Yes, sir.
Well, let's see.
I played golf in the morning, got back from the club about six, I guess.
Miserable game, 102, lost $35.
Sure was off Saturday.
Just a minute, sir.
You tell us what clothes you want, we'll get them for you.
All right, hand me that shirt there.
The blue one, huh?
Yeah.
Sure, miserable game Saturday, three-putted almost every green.
Nice looking shirts down there.
You like them?
Well, they're nice looking.
Where do you get them?
I haven't made, can't wear store-made shirts.
Next too long collar doesn't fit right.
What did you do after you got home from the golf club?
Took a shower, then went out, had a date.
Lousy game room the whole evening.
Sir?
Well, after that crummy 102, I really played the 19th hole, got pretty loaded.
By the time I got to Alice's, I was in a rare mood.
Alice?
Yeah, Alice, Alice Miller.
Anyway, I was about half hour late and she was fit to be tied.
We were supposed to have dinner out in Malibu.
It took us about an hour to drive out there and Alice kept getting mad as we drove.
I guess I didn't help things out any.
I was in a foul mood and didn't keep it to myself.
Yeah.
Well, by the time we got there, really going at it, silly thing.
No sense to the argument at all, but it just kept building.
Either one of you married?
Yeah, I assume a partner here is.
Well, then he knows what I mean.
Well, we didn't get down to the beach till about 8.30 or 9.
We got out of the car and Alice said she wanted me to take her back home.
I told her we'd just gotten there.
She said she didn't care, wanted to go home.
Yeah.
I told her if she wanted to leave, it was OK with me and I turned around to walk down
to the house.
You know, it's pretty dark down there.
Uh huh.
Well, I walked right over the embankment, must have fallen over about six, seven feet.
Didn't hurt myself much, but you can see I scratched up my face.
Yeah, we can't.
Well, the long one, though, I guess it was worth it.
How's that?
Well, Alice was so scared she ran down to me and the argument was all over.
We went on into the house and had dinner.
How long were you there?
Oh, I guess until, uh, well, maybe 2.30, 3 in the morning.
Got to playing charades, time just went.
You happen to know what blood type you have?
What?
Your blood type.
Do you know what it is?
I think it's A, but I'm not sure, though.
Uh huh.
You said you had your shirts made to order, huh?
Yeah, that's right.
Why?
Can you tell us how someone else might have gotten one of your shirts?
Wait a minute.
I don't think I understand just what's going on.
What is this all about?
You come in here and ask a lot of questions.
What's it all for?
Just routine.
Routine what?
Routine for me to have policemen come in and ask a lot of questions?
Where was I Saturday night who makes my shirts?
Who might have had them?
Come on, what's the pitch?
All right, do you know a man named Mark Williams?
Williams?
Uh, no, Tom Williams sells insurance.
No, Mark Williams.
No, I don't think I know Mark.
Anyway, what's he got to do with this?
He was killed Saturday night.
You figure maybe I did?
Well, a shirt that belongs to you was found near the scene.
My shirt?
That's right.
Same label.
Check the laundry markings in it.
Your laundry man said it was your shirt.
Said it was your number.
You talked to Harry?
Yeah, if that's his name, I guess we did.
I don't understand it.
Hey, wait a minute.
Yes, sir?
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a half a dozen shirts to the woman who comes in to clean
up the place.
She might know what happened.
Let me call her and find out.
I've got her number here someplace.
Yeah, here it is.
If anybody knows, she would.
A couple of weeks ago, told her she could have them.
I don't know what the matter with them.
Hello?
Mrs. Lambert in, please?
Yeah, thank you.
Hello, Mrs. Lambert.
This is John Dunlap.
Oh, just fine.
And you?
That's good.
No, no, I just want to know what you did with those shirts you took a couple of weeks ago.
Well, no, Mrs. Lambert, I did give them to you.
I just want to know what you did with them.
Uh-huh.
I see.
Well, can you give me the address?
Well, just a minute.
I'll get a pencil.
Do you have a pencil, officer?
Here you are.
Thank you.
Now, go ahead, Mrs. Lambert.
Uh-huh.
47?
All right, thank you.
No, no, don't you worry.
Everything's all right.
Yeah, well, thank you, Mrs. Lambert.
Yeah, I'll see you then.
Right, goodbye.
A real character thought I wanted the shirts back.
Did she tell you what she did with them?
Yeah, I said she sold them to a secondhand store down on Bixel.
We went over to the cleaning woman.
She gave us the same story that we'd gotten from John Dunlap.
We went over to the secondhand store, but it was closed.
The stakeout on the apartment continued.
The body had been posted, and the coroner told us that Williams had been killed at approximately
midnight on Saturday night.
That would allow two hours on either side, making it possible for the murder to take
place between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Frank and I checked out of the office and went home.
The following morning, Tuesday, July 6th at 8 17 p.m., we checked the secondhand store
where the shirts had been sold.
The dealer told us that he remembered the shirts.
He said that he'd bought five of them and had only sold one.
He was able to give us a fair description of the man he'd sold the shirt to.
He went on to say that he'd heard that the man was a user of narcotics.
We ran the name he gave us, Fred Harris, through R&I.
He had a record of violation of the state narcotic act.
We got out an APB and a local bulletin on him.
We called Narcotics Division and notified them that we wanted Harris as a suspect.
We checked the address listed on his record, but we found that he'd moved and left no
forwarding address.
Two days went by.
We ran down all leads, but we were able to come up with nothing new.
Thursday, July 8th, 8 30 a.m.
Frank and I checked back into the squad room.
Well, there's another one that didn't go anyplace.
Yeah, well, he's got to be someplace.
I get it.
Homicide Friday.
Oh, yeah, Joe.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Well, how soon will you be here?
All right.
Okay.
Right.
Anything?
Well, Monica and Hudson, they just picked Harris up.
1120 a.m.
Fred Harris was brought to the interrogation room.
Frank and I talked to him for about an hour, but other than his name, he refused to tell
us anything.
We tried to lead him out.
We talked about his family, about sports, food, everything we could think of.
None of it worked.
Harris remained sullen and uncooperative.
1 46 p.m.
How about some lunch, Joe?
I guess so.
Harris?
No.
No, thanks.
All right.
You suit yourself.
What do you want, Joe?
Oh, ham on rice, all right?
Get some coffee, too, huh?
Okay.
You sure, Harris?
You don't want it, indeed?
No, I told you.
Okay.
All right, if I smoke?
Yeah, go ahead.
Why don't you want to talk about it, Harris?
About what?
Why you killed Williams.
Who says I did?
That's the way it looks.
It looks wrong.
Well, you figured for yourself, Harris.
When you killed the old man, you weren't very careful.
You left a couple of prints around the place.
Yeah?
Shirt your war.
We got that.
Found it right where you dropped it.
Ran that down and leads right to you.
Got the man who sold it to you.
Identifies you.
Maybe he's wrong.
No, you know better than that.
When they picked you up, you were carrying some of the things you stole from that pawn
shop.
You can't account for your time on Saturday night.
I told you I didn't do it.
I didn't kill the old man.
I just don't remember where I was that night.
Didn't that happen to you?
You go someplace and a couple of days later you can't remember where you were.
Doesn't that ever happen to you?
Oh, yeah.
Once in a while.
Yeah, you see?
How do you expect me to remember when you sometimes forget?
You a user?
What are you asking that for?
You got the record.
Look it up yourself.
Roll up your sleeve.
All right.
You're a user.
You work for a living?
Yeah, sometimes.
What do you do?
Whatever I can.
When did you last work?
A couple of weeks ago.
You haven't worked since then, huh?
No.
Where'd you get that stuff they found on you?
I don't know.
I must have bought it.
Any idea where?
No.
You bought the stuff and you don't know where.
That what you want me to believe?
Believe what you want.
I don't care.
Well, here's what I believe.
You tell me if I'm wrong.
I think you went to the old man's pawn shop about closing time on Saturday night.
You had a big yen on it.
No money to make a connection.
You tried to rob the old man.
He didn't like it and you killed him.
You killed him with that hunk of lead pipe we found, the one with your fingerprints all
over it.
Then you tried to get the safe open and you couldn't.
So you wiped it clean, grabbed what you could carry and you ran out of the store.
A couple of blocks away you calmed down and took a look at yourself.
You threw that shirt in the ash can and then you went up to Wallace Holmes' apartment to
try to make a connection, didn't you?
He tell you all that?
No.
Now come on, how about it?
Holmes tell you that?
Now look, you're a little mixed up, aren't you?
You just answer, you don't ask.
Sure he told you.
He never found out if he did.
My big pal, Wallace Holmes.
After all I've done for him, if I had a nickel for every pop I shared with that bum and he
cops out on me, blabs everything to you.
One guy I'd have done anything for.
Get the guy the shirt off your back and this is a thanks I get.
Now what's your big trouble, Harris?
What do you mean?
You ought to hang on to your shirts.
The story you have just heard was true.
The names were changed to protect the innocent.
On November 15th, trial was held in Department 86, Superior Court of the State of California
in and for the County of Los Angeles.
In a moment, the results of that trial.
Now here is our star, Jack Webb.
Thank you, George Fenomen.
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Fred Richard Harris was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree.
He was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the State Penitentiary, San Quentin, California.
You have just heard Drag Met, a series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police
Department.
Technical advisors, Captain Jack Donahoe, Sergeant Marty Wynn, Sergeant Vance Brasher.
Heard tonight were Ben Alexander, Vic Rodman, Olin Soule, script by John Robinson, music
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