California condor survey field notes, v1477
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California Condor Eban McMillan 1 June 1964 I feel myself competent enough to satisfactorily identify a Condor under normal conditions. I stated that it would be my thinking, that I would be able to identify a Condor, in its natural surroundings, as well as any person could. The information I had on the Condor shooting case being all recorded, I was ushered from the Office of Investigator Taylor by Mr. Klein. It might be well to record here that prior to Mr. Klein's return to the Office of Investigator Taylor, I had occasion to ask of Mr. Taylor, or his Secretary, how Tony Klein spelled his name. Mr. Taylor did not know and his Secretary was a bit hesitant in remembering it. This was due, Mr. Taylor informed me, to the fact that Mr. Klein had not been with the District Attorney's office for any length of time. As Mr. Klein walked with me from the Office of Investigator Taylor I was informed by him that the plans now were to wait and see if Howard Binkley pleaded Not Guilty in the Justice Court in Tehachapi on June 3, at 10:00 A.M., when he is to appear to answer to a citation that Warden Read served on him the evening following the Condor Shooting incident. Should he plead guilty, his case will be closed there and he will pay whatever penalty is assessed by the Court providing a penalty is assessed. Should Howard Binkley plead Not Guilty and ask for a trial, then the District Attorney's office—