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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—