(Testimony of Heinz W. Michaelis)
Mr. Michaelis.
I am not familiar with the word assembly number, but it might be possible.
Mr. Ball.
What is the meaning of the word crane?
Mr. Michaelis.
The crane is when you flip off the cylinder, inside is a crane and there is a number on the stem, which is the second number.
Mr. Ball.
Do you maintain a record of all sales of guns in a book?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes; in this book here.
Mr. Ball.
You have the book before you, do you not?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
That is a black, looseleaf notebook; looseleaf notebook with a black cover. Is that correct?
Mr. Michaelis.
Correct.
Mr. Ball.
And you keep that in handwriting, or by typewriting?
Mr. Michaelis.
Handwriting.
Mr. Ball.
Do you keep a typewritten or handwritten record?
Mr. Michaelis.
Handwritten.
Mr. Ball.
When the agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation called on you on Saturday, November 30, 1963, you looked to your book that carries a record in handwriting of your sales?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
And did you find this record of this particular gun?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
I hand you here a document which is identified as FBI Laboratory No. D-191, being a photostat. Do you recognize this?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
Will you compare that with the page in your notebook?
Mr. Michaelis.
It is the same.
Mr. Ball.
And that is identified in your notebook as Case No. 3?
Mr. Michaelis.
Case No. 3.
Mr. Ball.
What is the significance of the words "Case No. 3"?
Mr. Michaelis.
It is a listing of a case which we received.
Mr. Ball.
Of a case, a particular case, of guns; is that correct?
Mr. Michaelis.
Correct.
Mr. Ball.
It also has a 99 enclosed in a circle. What is the significance of that?
Mr. Michaelis.
I presume that is the contents, the piece contents of the case.
Mr. Ball.
You found, therefore, a record in your notebook, and that would indicate what? That you had sold the gun at some time?
Mr. Michaelis.
That is correct.
Mr. Ball.
Now, I would like to offer and have marked this photostat of a page of the looseleaf notebook, which is identified as Case No. 3, as Exhibit No. 1 to this deposition of Mr. Michaelis.
(Whereupon the document last referred to hereinabove was marked to the Michaelis deposition as Commission Exhibit No. 1 for identification by the notary public.)
Mr. Ball.
Now, from that looseleaf notebook were you able to determine from what source you bought the gun?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
Can you tell me now where you bought the gun and when?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes. Yes.
Mr. Ball.
And from whom?
Mr. Michaelis.
Excuse me.
Mr. Ball.
Now, you have before you now a file?
Mr. Michaelis.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Ball.
And does it refer to this particular purchase of 99 guns?
Mr. Michaelis.
No. We bought altogether 500 guns.
Mr. Ball.
500? And what is the file, the title, that you are now showing?
Mr. Michaelis.
Empire Wholesale.
Mr. Ball.
All right. Now, tell me what you found as to the source of this gun; where you bought it and from whom.
Mr. Michaelis.
We bought it from Empire Wholesale Sporting Goods, Ltd., 360 Craig Street West, Montreal 1, Quebec.
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