the search of Oswald's person

[Steve Thomas]

I've been puzzled about something.

In Box 1 Folder# 7 Item# 43

http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/01/0190-001.gif

there is a property clerk's invoice for property taken (the index says from 1026 N. Beckley) but I believe it was actually taken off Lee Harvey Oswald. The property clerk listed the items as having been received from Officer Boyd.

Among other things it lists:

a post office key for P.O. Box 1126. Does anyone know where this P.O. Box was located?

Another thing that is listed is a Dallas County bus transfer ticket.

What is not listed is 38 caliber revolver bullets.

Now Elmer Boyd told the WC in 7H126 that he found those bullets in Oswald's pocket just before taking him down to the first lineup at 4:05 PM

Mr. BALL. What did you do with them?
Mr. BOYD. Well, I put them in an envelope and put them with the rest of the property up there to be turned in.

Mr. BALL. And turned them over to whom?
Mr. BOYD. Well, let me see---it seems like we had a drawer there where we had some more property, where we put it all in there you know, where they had the other stuff--I have forgotten just exactly where it would be.

So there was other Oswald property there, and Fritz told the WC:

Mr. BALL. He hadn't been searched up to that time, had he?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir; he had been searched.
Mr. BALL. Wasn't he searched later in the jail office?
Mr. FRITZ. He was searched, the officers who arrested him made the first search, I am sure. He had another search at the building and I believe that one of my officers, Mr. Boyd, found some cartridges in his pocket in the room after he came to the city hall. I can't tell you the exact time when he searched him.
Mr. BALL. You don't have the record of the time when he was searched?
Mr. FRITZ. No.
Mr. BALL. You remember they found a transfer of Dallas Transit Company?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes, sir; found a transfer.
Mr. BALL. And some bullets?
Mr. FRITZ. Bullets; yes, sir. Cartridges.

What I haven't been able to find is exactly who found that transfer, and when they found it.

How could they find the transfer, but miss the bullets?

Steve Thomas

[Jon G. Tidd]

The DPD handling of Oswald and his possession was remarkably sloppy, IMO.

Does anyone here know how capable the DPD was at the time in the handling of criminal suspects and their possessions?

In other words, as one looks back on the DPD's handling of Oswald, does one view the handling of Oswald and his possessions as usual, or as unusual?

[Steve Thomas]

This is just kind of weird.

In Box 6 Folder# 6 Items 2 and 3 there is a list of the property seized from Oswald from his person, and from Irving and Beckley. The inventory lists things like a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste, etc.

http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box6.htm

Maybe I missed it, but I'm not finding an inventory for the bullets taken from his pants pocket.

On another page, Fritz gives Curry a rundown of the evidence against Oswald and mentions the bus transfer, but again, no mention of the bullets in his pocket. (He says the list is by no means complete).

BTW, the inventory lists two belts taken off Oswald. A black leather belt and a brown leather belt.

Oswald was wearing two belts?

Steve Thomas

[Tom Hume]

Hi Steve,

You wrote: “BTW, the inventory lists two belts taken off Oswald. A black leather belt and a brown leather belt. Oswald was wearing two belts?”

It’s interesting that Lee Oswald might have had two belts on the 22nd, and possibly two functional wallets associated with him as well.

My hypothesis in a nutshell is that Oswald and his two associates (Nagell and Vaganov) were trying to prevent the assassination, and at the same time concocting decodable anagram puzzles to tell their story. Two belts and two wallets, if true, might have been one of their enigmatic creations.

According to my hypothesis, these three low-level intelligence types had a preference for 13-letter puzzles, and since “2 WALLETS BELTS” seems like the most logical13 letter rendering, it might be a good starting point.

For anagram purposes, “2” is equivalent to “C” (translation device at bottom), so “C WALLETS BELTS” would be my first guinea pig, and the first anagram to look promising is:

“C TELLS WB TALES”

Or changing the “C” back to a “2”:

“2 TELLS WB TALES”

The “WB” in this anagram would stand for “William Banister”, and the “2” appears to be a double entendre, because when we focus on “C TELLS WB TALES”, the “C” would stand for “Case”, as in “Richard Case Nagell.”

“2 WALLETS BELTS” - “C TELLS WB TALES”

To gain some assurance that this anagram was intended by the trio, one would use “ICO’s” 6-bit binary code method, and this would yield another string of letters to anagram.

I’m in the middle of a serious computer crash and won’t do any of this work now (big sigh of relief).

We might find out, however, that our binary code (“BC”) results are garbage and we’ll need to move on. But there is more we can do with this one: “C TELLS WB TALES” can be re-arranged into another pertinent anagram:

“BC TELLS 22 TALES”

(Binary Code Tells 22nd Tales, and I merely translated the “W” to its equivalent number, “22”)

So, there might have been “Twin” Oswalds (Lee and Igor working together, in my view), “Twin” belts, and “Twin” wallets.

Richard Case Nagell’s public declaration as he was being arrested in an El Paso bank, “CAPITALISTIC SWINE”, anagrams to:

“CIA TWIN SPECIALIST”

(It also anagrams to “L, I, TWIN CIA PATSIES. C”)

For those so inclined, see what anagrams you can make from “C WALLETS BELTS”.

Tom

(A=0)(B=1)(C=2)(D=3)(E=4)(F=5)(G=6)(H=7)(I=8)(J=9)(K=10)(L=11)(M=12)(N=13)(O=14)(P=15)(Q=16)(R=17)(S=18)(T=19)(U=20)(V=21)(W=22)(X=23)(Y=24)(Z=25)