The deposit slip that was never stamped by the bank

[Jim Hargrove]

Sandy Larsen posted the following diagram on another forum showing how to decipher the Hollerith Code punches on the uncashed, unprocessed money order allegedly used to purchase the rifle.



Remember that this is the back of the form, and so everything is backward. Reading the round holes at left above from right to left, the holes represent the money amount: 02145, or $21.45. To the right, again reading from right to left, the square holes represent the serial number: 2202130462.

NONE of the punches represent processing by any other financial institution. Despite speculative posts by Brian Castle on Greg Parker's forum and by David Von Pein on EF, and others, the evidence is clear that this money order was never cashed, never deposited, and never processed by any financial institution.

Tom seemed to indicate above that the holes could have represented info from other financial institutions at a slightly different date, but I don't think this is true. At a very minimum, punched holes of this sort would have to represent the financial institution routing number, or name and distinguishing address, and a date, and that would require quite a few more punches.

All the above was started by John Armstrong's write-up that can be read here: http://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html