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| the sane. source : Although the brown marline twine. The mutilated lead fragments in specimens QLO and Ql2 bear no marks of value for identification purposes. Specimen Q13 consists of a metal fragment which does. not appear to be part of a bullet. No residues of cyanide were ‘£ound on specinons Q8 through O14. ‘Tnasmuch | as .380 Auto and 9mm cartridge nomenclature . can be confusing, the following information is being furnished. The Sinm Luger (9mm Parabellum) cartridge cannot be fired in .380 Auto (9mm Short, 9nm Corto or 3mm Kurz) weapons inas as the Smnm Luger cartridge is longer than the TRS Macs ~380 Ruto cartridge. 280 Auto cartridge can be fired in some 9mm Luger: . caliber wencene, malfrnetions often occur in that the automatic | extraction of the fired cartridge case and chambering of a new cartridge is hampered by the lesser recoil energy of the -380 Auto cartridge. . specimen Q4 consists of a Y segment of braided ‘white nylou cord approximately 13/64" 4n dilameter-and with a crimped nylon core. On one end of Q4 is a loop lashed with brown mariine twine and wrapped with 3/4" wide biack plastic tape. - pecimen Q3 consists of a ‘segnent of braided white nylon cord Shich is Like. the 04 cord with respect to color,. diameter, construction and composition and could have come fron as the Q4 cord. A loon also appears on one end of the Q3 length of cord which is constructed in the same fashion as the loop on 04 and with the same tye of marline tiine. ‘The torn end of the piece of black plastic tape on specimen Q4 _ matches the torn en:l of the plece of biack plastic tape.on 93. Accordingly, the tape on Q3 was once attached to and torn from the te ape on the particular segment of cord in specimen Q4. The second segment of cord in specimen 04 is 3/16" diameter braided whit> nylon cord with a 4-ply nylon corye and is not like the Q3 cord. A loop on one end of this segment of cord is ‘constructed in a similar fashion as the loop on specimen 03; however, black marline twine is used rather than | The torn ends of the 3/4" wide black plastic ‘ape do not match the ends of ‘the tape on Q3 or the other. cord ain a4. On the free end of this cord is a Stevenore! 's knots” } : The use of marine twine as’ on sprcine © 03 ena on ‘and the manner in which the Stevedore's knot on one of the 04 Jencins of cord suggast the unknown subject(s) may have a backgrouné in. a t- | OF association with the mari tine trade or Andustry.