Welcome back to case closed.

One hour of old-time radio crime every Wednesday at relicradio.com.

The first story comes from 21st Precinct.

We'll hear the mark from October 27, 1954.

After that, it's the lineup.

And the senile slugging case, that story aired September 12th, 1951.

Okay. Slugging case. That story aired September 12th, 1951. 21st precinct, Sergeant Waters.

All right, get on over the 2nd Avenue. The third alarm on that fire just hit.

Sergeant Taney's on the job there.

He'll put you to work on traffic.

Yeah, that's right.

You are in the muster room at the 21st precinct, the nerve center.

A call is coming through.

You will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the 124 room at the 21st precinct.

Okay, you're gone.

Bring in when you get back on your post.

Yeah.

All right.

21st precinct.

It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the nine-tenths of the square mile between 5th Avenue and the East River wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st. But if they know it or not, the security of their home, their persons, and their property, is the job of the men of the

21st precinct.

The 21st, 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants, and four lieutenants of whom I'm the boss.

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