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GERVAIS: Oh. SOULE: So, uh, TAC [TAC Amusement Company] come up with it, Frey called the investigation off, so we got 500 apiece from TAC. GERVAIS: : Uh-huh. SOULE: That went on for, for -- GERVAIS: A couple of months. SOULE: Two months, and then we were gonna knock them off again and so Nims [ROBERT NIMS of Lucky Coin Machine Company, Inc. 0 come up. TAC -- SOULE said that he had given FREY about $500 a month of pinball bribe money for three or four months, but that he had told Sergeant FREY that the FBI pinball raids had tightened up the money situation but that FREY could expect to get some- thing more starting at the beginning of 1971. (24) On December 7, 1970, Captain FREDERICK A. SOULE, SR., met with PERSHING GERVAIS in Room 876 of the Fontainebleau Motor Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana. Captain SOULE said that he had been employed by LOUIS M. BOASBERG of New Orleans Novelty Company as a pinball mechanic before he was drafted in World War II and that his father has been employed by BOASBERG for about 40 years. When asked by GERVAIS whether he had met with BOASBERG recently, SOULE said he doesn't like to do so because BOASBERG is hot and is being followed by the FBI. Captain Soule said that when he wants to talk to BOASBERG he calls HARBY S. MARKS, JR. , an employee of BOASBERG, who "does all Louis' running". SOULE also said that MARKS is a "route man"; that "he services the machines and all" and that "he's the one who puts the machines on location". SOULE then had GERVAIS call telephone number 529-7321 (the December 1970 South Southern Bell yellow pages show this to be the business number for New Orleans Novelty Company at 1055 Dryades Street in New Orleans) and ask for HARBY MARKS who was not in. SOULE then told GERVAIS about his rela- tionship with MARKS: SOULE: That why usually, I talk to him. All right, when I call him, there's a coin phone about a block down the way, he walks down to that coin phone. GERVAIS: And calls you back. 22