If the photo of some type of rifle on the floor is accurate, then its questionable how Boone and Weitzman looking down into the 1” gap between 2 parallel rows of stacked boxes could have determined the rifle was a Mauser
Why they each decided to go ahead anyway and file an official document declaring in some detail that this was a Mauser rifle BEFORE the rifle is actually IN FULL VIEW , ie before it’s actually LIFTED and being examined by Lt. Day, is a question that will live in In infamy like The Pearl Harbor Dec 7th and How Schumer Gets Away With BS.
looking down into the 1” gap between 2 parallel rows of stacked boxes could have determined the rifle was a MauserIt's a pity that you are obviously are being influenced by a fake photo. You clearly are describing the fake in situ photo that was created by the DPD. Thus it is nothing but GIGO..... (Your brain has been given garbage in the form of the fake photo)
And only you can correct the problem.....
Some old timers referred to any high powered bolt action rifle as a "Mauser"..... I don't know if Seymour Weitzman, or Boone fit into that category but
"someone" there at the scene, sure as hell thought that the rifle laying on the floor under the boxes"
looked like a mauser" ( and the carcano does in fact resemble a 7.65 mauser. ) Knowing that Roger Craig was a blowhard, and he was there at the scene it's entirely possible that Craig may have been the person who first offered the idea that the rifle
" looks like a mauser" ( he certainly tried very hard to convince others that a mauser had been found .)
I find it interesting that in his first written note after the rifle was discovered,.... Lt J.C.Day referred to the rifle as a 6.5mm
LEVER ACTION. Which of course is totally wrong. BUT..... It does fit with the first police radio alert from the scene that reported that the suspect is armed with a 30-30 Winchester ....which is a LEVER ACTION rifle ...Merely co-incidence
