Tracing the rifle

[Gil Jesus]

Louis Feldsott's affidavit in Volume XI, says that the rifle was sold to Klein's on June 18, 1962. (p. 205)

But the warehouse records said that the first batch of the rifles were not removed from Harborside until August 29th.

Armstrong flatly says that C2766 and carton #3376 was not removed on August 29th either. (p. 445) ANd that Fred Rupp never got that carton.(ibid) Rupp worked for Crescent and checked their orders before being shipped out to customers.

Now the WC and FBI eventually decided that the Klein's order was made in January 1963.

How could they do this? On all Rupp's orders for these types of rifles, which he removed from Harborside, not a single carton was listed! (ibid)

To say, as someone as goofy as Von Pein does, that this was somehow nothing to raise an eyebrow about is just, well, Von Peinian. Rupp was a licensed gun dealer. He was required to keep track of cartons and serial numbers. You could not keep track of serial numbers without the carton numbers. He then linked up those numbers to the retail purchaser. That way law enforcement could track a weapon from wholesaler to retailer to purchaser. Which is important in every murder case.

Except this one, of course.

You raise a good point here. While looking at the Harborside manifests, the one dated 8/29/62 has the carton numbers listed on it, while the other four do not.
Why would Harborside list the carton numbers on only the first 170 rifles removed from their warehouse and not the rest ?

Regardless of whether their procedure was listing the carton numbers or not, shouldn't that procedure be the same on ALL of the manifests ?

Very strange.