Mr. Belin.

I thought you said the FBI said $21.95?

Mr. Holmes.

He had, and that was the amount of money order I had been looking for. So I had my postal inspector in charge call our Chicago office and suggested that he get an inspector out to Klein's Sporting Goods and recheck it for accuracy, that if our looking at the right gun in the magazine, they were looking for the wrong money order.

Mr. Belin.

So what happened?

Mr. Holmes.

So in about an hour Postal Inspector McGee of Chicago called back then and said that the correct amount was $21.95---$21.45 excuse me, and that the shipping---they had received this money order on March the 13th, whereas I had been looking for March 20.
So then I passed the information to the men who were looking for this money order stub to show which would designate, which would show the number of the money order, and that is the only way you could find one.
I relayed this information to them and told them to start on the 13th because he could have bought it that morning and that he could have gotten it by airmail that afternoon, so they began to search and within 10 minutes they called back and said they had a money order in that amount issued on, I don't know that I show, but it was that money order in an amount issued at the main post office, which is the same place as this post office box was at that time, box 2915 and the money order had been issued early on the morning of March the 12th, 1963.

Mr. Belin.

To whom?

Mr. Holmes.

They are issued in blank. He has to fill it in.

Mr. Belin.

Does it say the name of the person who is purchased--purchasing--

Mr. Holmes.

No; you don't get----

Mr. Belin.

He had to fill it in himself?

Mr. Holmes.

Yes.

Mr. Belin.

You mentioned another post office box, and a new number there. When was that?

Mr. Holmes.

Just now?

Mr. Belin.

Yes, No. 2915?

Mr. Holmes.

That is the box he had rented at the main post office before he went to New Orleans?

Mr. Belin.

When you say the main post office, what city and State?

Mr. Holmes.

Dallas, Tex.

Mr. Belin.

When did you learn about this, if you remember?

Mr. Holmes.

I don't know that I can tell. Some clerk was passing information to me and also it could have been that McGee, this inspector said it was sent to box 2915, in Dallas. I couldn't tell you when I first realized he had this box.

Mr. Belin.

I hand you what has been marked "Holmes Deposition Exhibit 3," and ask you to state what that is?

Mr. Holmes.

That is a photostatic copy of the original box rental application covering the rental of box 2915, at the main post office in Dallas, Tex. which shows that it was completed on October the 9th, 1962. The applicants name was Lee H. Oswald, home address, 3519 Fairmore Avenue, Dallas, Tex. Signed Lee H. Oswald. It shows that the box was closed on May 14, 1963.

Mr. Belin.

Now, it is stamped date box opened, October 9, 1962. And that is the same date that it appears to be written in handwriting at the bottom of it.

Mr. Holmes.

That's correct.

Mr. Belin.

All right. Now, you found this postal money order and then what did you do?

Mr. Holmes.

Off the record, let me ask you something. I questioned him about this box and all the angles with it during this interview.

Mr. Belin.

I am going to get to that.

Mr. Holmes.

I didn't know whether you wanted to put it in there.

Mr. Belin.

I am going to get to that. Then what did you do?

Mr. Holmes.

I gave that information to my boss by telephone. He called Washington immediately. Of course this information included the money order number. This number was transmitted by phone to the chief inspector in Washington, who immediately got the money order center at Washington to begin a