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; r ! Specimen Q2 is a portion of the core of a rifle bullet. Specimen •'
J. Q2 weighs 44.6 grains and is composed of a portion of the copper alloy - ' ■
1; • jacket and a portion of the lead core. Specimen Q3 is a portion of the base _
1 > section of a copper alloy rifle bullet. Q3 weighs 21. 0 grains and is composed
... of a section of the jacket from which the lead core is missing. It could not :
. be determined whether specimens Q2 and Q3 are portions of the same
' • > bullet or are portions of two separate bullets.
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The rifle, Kl, is a 6. 5 millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano Italian
; military rifle Model 91/38. Test bullets were fired from this rifle for ; go J
v v / comparison with specimens Ql, Q2 andQ3. As a result, Ql, Q2 andQ3
;< •. were identified as having been fired from the submitted rifle.
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/ r. < , Specimens Q6 and Q7 are 6. 5 millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano
v * . cartridge cases. They were manufactured by the Western Cartridge
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• %;^>v Test cartridge cases obtained from the submitted rifle were t;
. ^ compared with specimens Q6 and Q7. As a result, specimens Q6 and Q7 |i
C were identified as having been fired in this rifle. The bullet, Q13, from f -
< 4 Officer Tippett, is a . 38 Special copper-coated lead bullet. Q13 weighs
I 156.6 grains and possesses the physical characteristics of 158 grain
J ; Western-WinChester revolver bullets. The surface of Q13 as so badly I
v 1' mutilated that there are not sufficient individual microscopic characteris- ~H
i i; - tics present for identification purposes. It was determined, however, that
'• * • the .38 Special Smith and Wesson revolver, K3, is among those weapons ~~
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The lead metal of Q4and Q5, Q9, Q14 and Q15 is similar to the ' ^"1$
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A small tuft of textile fibers was found adhering to a jagged area, 7
on the left side of the metal butt plate on the Kl gun. Included in this tuft
of fibers were gray-black, dark blue and orange-yellow cotton fibers which ~
match in microscopic characteristics the gray-black, dark blue and
orange-yellow cotton fibers composing the Qll shirt of the suspect... These
fibers could have originated from this shirt. •'/—
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