BROWNING ARMS COMPANY, st. Louis, Mo., June le, 19h2. (2) since the parts and barrels had been discarded and our cost was only the labor involved. We decided not to sell the seventh gun but to keep it here in case any of our fellows wanted a trap gun to shoot and we have also run into cases where one of our owners has damaged his gun and needs a trap gun to finish out a shoot. We have also encountered instances where it would be nice to have @ gun to loan to some friend. After this particular gun was made up I think we all had a chance to examine it pretty well. I know TF did. At the time we moved Hd Koehrer and I packed all of the customers repair guns for moving. This Overunder was kept in the rack with the customers repair guns. At that time we discovered that the gun was missing. We, of course, made every effort possible to locate it but were unable to do so. About November, last year, a Mr. Rapley of Washington, D. C., was in our office and was trying to buy an Overunder gun. In trying to find one for him we located a gun at one of the local second hand dealers and referred Mr. Rapley to that dealer. He bought the gun and had it delivered to us for some special work. is soon as I saw this gun I thought for a number of reasons that it was the one we had missed. The gun had a very low serial number but was in excellent condition. It was equipped with a new style single selective trigger, the stock and forearm was finished with a spray finish such as we use on the USB, and the gun was equipped with a brand new White Line Recoil Pad. Although the speci- fications of 30" improved modified and full choke is common, that is what this gun was and the entire equipment matched perfectly with our gun. I mentioned my suspicions to the fellows in the shop and asked them what they thought as to whether this was our gun or not. None of them would say definitely but most of them said it looked like it, or it could be, or it probably was. Fischer was alone in saying that it definitely was not the gun, giving as the reason the fact that the number on the barrel corresponded with the number on the action and that he knew that on our gun the barrel number did not correspond with the action. Mitch cannot remember whether he changed the number on the barrels or whether he actually finished the job himself or whether someone else did, since there was seven of these guns coming through at about the same time. Nevertheless Roy and I went to the second hand dealer and tried to find out where he got the gun. I suppose it is typicalof these second hand dealers and pawn shops to be close-mouthed about these things, but this dealer maintained that he was unable to find his records on this particular gun. After Arnold was apprehended last Friday we, of course, thought about this gun again and again we went to the second hand dealer from whom it was purchased. Roy was able this time to get the dealers recordsas to where he obtained the gun, with the explanation from the dealer that the reason he couldn't give us this information before was that he found he had misfiled the information in the stevens file instead of the Browning file, which we are a little inclined to doubt. The date he purchased the gun corresponds almost perfectly with the date it was taken from us. The name and the address are both fictitious. There is no such name listed in the phone book or the City Directory, and the address is non-existent. We, answered our of course, questions = may be doing regarding ait | Fischer this gun an and injustice from our but from previous Pi the way experience Ps he