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california condor Eben McMillan 29 may 1964
out southwestward much ahead of the wounded bird,
circled for a few moments after getting out of danger,
but circled down and joined the troubled bird as it
passed from sight below the ridge to the south.
Going back to the time of the shooting, no sooner had
the shot been fired, than Dan Garcia yelled something to
the effect that one of the two boys was shooting at
the condor. He now evidently ran eastward along the
fence that encloses the Horsethief Camp and was
calling across the canyon in the direction from which
the sound of the shot came from, to this effect.
"Hey you kids, for christ sake stop shooting
those birds. Don't you know it's against the law to shoot
them. Do you want to get put in jail? Put that damn
gun away and quit shooting those birds!" Mr. Garcia
continued to berate the boys who were sitting on a pile
of rocks, across a small draw from the Camp, about
150 yards from where we had been when the shooting
incident occurred, before he came back to where I was
intently now putting down Notes. As Dan Garcia approached
me he stated to me that I should go over and arrest
the two boys — one of whom evidently did the
shooting. "The Damn fools," Dan said "will shoot at
anything!" Garcia also said [illegible]
After finishing taking quick notes of happenings up to
this part of the incident, I took my notebook and hiked
across the small draw to the east of Camp and out-