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California Condor Eban Mcmillan 25 april 1964
and here they left the Truck Parked even though Mrs.
Reyes had warned them repeatedly to be sure and
return the truck to the same place it had been when
they first took it. This these men did not do. Instead,
they left the truck near where their Jeep had been
stalled when running out of gasoline, and driving to
the locked gate at the Reyes Ranch in Santa Barbara
Canyon and there unlocking this gate, with a key they
had obtained from the Forest Service Office in Cuyama
that morning, and passing on through this gate
drove on down the roadway towards Cuyama Valley,
Ranger Morse, upon finding his man did not go with
those men to their Jeep to get the licence Number of
this vehicle, called Mrs. Reyes instructing her to get
the licence Number of this Jeep when it passed her
Ranch. As the two men passed Mrs. Reyes home, having
already driven through the locked gate, Mrs. Reyes
instructed her son, Freddie Reyes, to follow the men
below her ranch and let them through the
cattle guard that prevents automobiles from
passing by having a padlocked cable stretched
across it. Freddie Reyes following the Two men in
the Jeep arrived at their sight of the locked
cattle guard just in time to see these two men drive
their Jeep under this cable and continue on down
Santa Barbara Canyon without anyone having
their licence Number.