CD87 p92 - SS tells us the rifle Kleins shipped to Hidell was a 91(T)roop (S)pecial carbine

[Jim Hargrove]

Something you may wish to investigate Jim... There is a page that follows the Waldman #10 that shows a $2116.91 total. If you look at the top left of the #10 you posted you will see the same number as a subtotal and first entry on that tape.... they go on to add to that total to reach the final total of $3804.67.

It's a little hard to read, but it looks to me, squinting, like that first entry on Waldman 10 is 2,216.something. Quite a three-digit coincidence, though, if they represent different totals.

The PROBLEM is that Bank VP Wilmouth tells a much different story about the deposit, the date (3/15, not 3/13) and what the Fed Res Bank would have done and when. The MO should have a 3/18/63 stamp from the Fed Reserve at the very least. The numbers $1536.11 and $6178 have no relationship to this deposit... and the $21.45 transaction identified as Hidell's MO was actually the American Express check....

It probably should have also been stamped by First National Bank of Chicago before it was sent along to the Fed Reserve. John did some digging here and also wrote that it should have been stamped by the Fed Postal Money Order Center in Kansas City. In recent years, endorsement stamps and the like on some personal checks and other financial docs have been streamlined a bit, but I remember some years ago that there were stamps all over the things. The fact that NO ONE stamped this thing proves that it was never processed beyond Klein's, if there.

The other problem being that this USPS Money Order would not be considered "Checks on other Chicago Banks" but as a "Check on out of Town Banks" in the $9992.43 total. There is no $21.45 in those columns adding to that total.

Yep, JA thought the same thing. Geez, could there be anything else wrong with this picture? And that's not to mention all Bob Prudhomme's stuff.

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That Kleins would microfilm the envelope and coupon yet not the money order is also very suspect. John's section on this in H&L is quite thorough with documents not offered elsewhere. At some point along the way the COST for shipping these rifles via Lipschultz is also changed from $.76/lb to what LOOKS like $5.27 for a total of $3953 instead of the $570. or am I reading this wrong?

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I'm not sure what that 527 rate is supposed to mean or if there is something screwy about the charges, but All the evidence of the so-called murder weapon appears about as legitimate as a three dollar bill. Anyone seen how WC apologists address this stuff?