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California Condor
Ebenezer Millan
28 May 1964.
Appear in the Justice Court in Tehachapi at 10:00 A.M.
on June 3, 1964.
Mr. Warden Reed and I then drove to Horse-thief Camp
and there Warden Reed picked up the .22 Caliber rifle
that Binkley had used in shooting the Condor. Mr. Binkley
having told Warden Reed where it could be found at the time
Warden Reed was issuing the Citation at the Binkley House-
trailer a short time before, while Warden Reed went to the
Horse-thief Camp for the gun I hiked up the Canyon,
down which the two Condor had flown moments before
being one of them was wounded by a shot from Mr.
Binkley's .22 Caliber Rifle. I thought the birds may
have come from eating on a carcass due to their flying
so low. I also searched for evidence of feathers that
might have fallen from the wounded bird, but found none,
and neither did I see feathers fall from the bird when
it was hit even though I distinctly heard the bullet
hit with a sharp thud. I then [illegible] led Warden Reed
to the exact spot from which Binkley had fired the shot,
and showed him the stub end of a cigarette that had been
smoked by one of the men as they sat on these rocks.
We then drove down Sheep-trail Grade - I left Warden Reed
at foot of grade, he driving on towards Bakersfield, I to Arvin,
where I got some groceries then returned to Sheeptrail Grade where
I spent the night camped out on Commando Point inside
the property of Rex Ellsworth.