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Content warning. This episode includes discussion of gun violence.

Also, is a quick note where taking through our sourcing at the end of the episode.

Sitting at the counter of the car barn, the three strangers sipped coffee and munched on donuts,

much like any other patrons, there was an odd quirk to their table manners, though.

They ate using only their left hands. Their right hand stayed out of sight.

Later on, it had become clear that they'd been keeping those poised over their holstered guns.

Almost everyone else at the car barn on that summer morning worked on Sue City's network of street cars,

as line men or conductors or motormen.

That's what the restaurant, situated at 1605 West Third Street, was known for.

An unassuming spot where folks in the street car industry could hang out and grab a jolt of coffee or pop at all hours,

a sort of beacon in the darkness before or after a long shift.

But in the early morning of July 22, 1919, three men working in an entirely different business

decided to make the car barn their breakfast stop.

And that decision would have deadly consequences.

The stranger sitting near as the door was B.C. Tex Maynard.

The one furthest away was Jim Davis.

They answered to the man sitting between them, Donald Red Berzet.

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