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The number 124 is a scrambled version of the first three digits in Mark Fuhrman’s 21464 LAPD badge number. His drawing of the locomotive engineer and the dog on train # 124 in the March 3, 1997 issue of People Magazine has some notable historical connections considering the context in which he called himself “a war and history buff.” (Page 125 of Murder in Brentwood) On that page he defends himself against charges of racism by evoking a political cartoon, Nazis (the “Master Race”) British and German craftsmanship, the slaughter of Indians and single action Colts. On page 124 he makes a reference to “a star,” “the tapes” (his voice recorded on a machine) and his brother.

  

http://cathyfree.com/stories/p_cold_comfort.pdf    http://www.nipperhead.com/old/nipper.htm

 

 

 

A close lookalike for the dog in Mark Fuhrman’s drawing is “Nipper,” the most famous dog in the world for decades after his death in 1895. Nipper was born in England in1884 and outlived his master Mark Barraud by eight years. There is some dispute over whether he was a  Jack Russell Terrier, a Fox Terrier, a Dalmatian, or an American Pit Bull Terrier. There is, however, no dispute about how he got his name. By all accounts it was, “because he tried to bite visitors in the leg.”  

 

Mark Barraud recorded his voice on an Edison Bell recording cylinder. When Mark died, his brother Francis adopted the dog. Three years after Nipper died, Francis recalled and painted the iconic image of Nipper with his head turned to the funnel of the machine for the Victor Talking Machine Company. He called it, “His Master’s Voice.”

Like the photo of Frances Baurrud with his paintings of Nipper and the Victor talking machine, Fuhrman’s drawing in People combines a seated man with a beard and mustache, a white dog with dark ears and a collar, and a machine with a funnel. In Fuhrman’s drawing, the man is sitting with the dog resting perpendicular to him belly down. The man is looking straight ahead as though posing for a photo and the dog’s head is turned to look in the same direction.

RCA's Nipper and Chipper: RCA  bought Victor in 1929 Chipper was added in 1991

If you could see above the lens of the train’s headlight box in Fuhrman’s drawing, you would see the engine’s funnel-shaped smokestack. You can see it in a Civil War photo of the locomotive named Genl. (General) J.C. Robinson # 124, formerly named General Haupt The 124 construction number identifies it as the same US Military Railroad (USMRR) train. Other USMRR locomotives were the President and the Victor. The Victor was manufactured by the Mason Co. after the Civil War on 12, 14, 1866. The construction number was 32. 

The train in the background on the far left is the Lt. Genl. Grant, named after Union Army Lt. General Ulysses Simpson Grant.   President Lincoln (the penny on Nicole Simpson’s driveway) gave Grant his three general stars. President Grant’s picture is on the 50 dollar bill. Trains run on military time. The hour hand in military time pointing to 10 is 22:00 and the minute hand pointing to 10 (22) is 50. The common denominator in military time is 22:00.  

The 4-4-0 locomotive (and tender) pictured above was manufactured by Mason and Company of Taunton MA in 1862 (construction # 124. It was acquired by the USMRR on Jan 17, 1863. It would lager be renamed “General J. C. Robinson” and eventually sold to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1865. Mason is regarded by many to be the father of the American type locomotive. Another Mason locomotive called "General" had the construction # 631.  Those numbers rearranged as a date are 6 (June) 13 -- the day Fuhrman and his partner Brad Roberts investigated the double homicide of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.

You'll find the Baltimore connection to Nipper the RCA/Victor dog here: http://www.answers.com/topic/nipper  "A huge, four-ton Nipper can be seen on the roof of the old RTA ...building on Broadway in Albany, New York.[6] A second slightly smaller one, after spending many years on private property in Merrifield, Virginia, perched over Lee Highway (US Route 29), has now been returned to Baltimore, Maryland where it originally graced the former RCA Building on Russell Street." It stood there for 22 years.

Fuhrman’s references to a star could mean any representation of a star, a person who receives top billing in a performance for an audience, a point of light in the night sky, a geometric shape, etc. It’s a bell ringer for him and a signpost for you and me, especially a five-pointed star. When you see it in something related to his three most famous murder investigations that he claims credit for solving (Goldman-Simpson, Martha Moxley, JFK) you can expect much more related material to follow in your investigation.

The pentagon in Washington, D. C. (the city where President James Garfield, a former general in the Civil War, was shot in the Sixth Street Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in 1881) is named for its five-sided shape. If you extend the lines on all five sides until they meet you get a five-pointed star, the insignia of rank for a general. 

 

Five point stars are therefore implicit in the names of the trains Robinson and Grant, just as a hammer (with which retired Army Sgt. Maj. Robert C. Hurd Jr. was beaten to death on March 21, 1994) is implicit in the railroad tracks. The five point star and the Civil War are similarly implicit in Fuhrman’s March 3, 1997 People Magazine drawing. But there is an explicit five-pointed star between the big wheels of the Haupt/ Robinson # 124, circled by the name of the locomotive manufacturer, WM (William) Mason, and Taunton, Massachusetts where it was built.

 

Notice how this train stuff is starting to leach into Mark James Fuhrman’s unsolved murder investigation of Robert C Hurd and Michael McClinton’s testimony in Orenthal James Simpson’s Las Vegas robbery trial. When you combine outlaws, murder and single action Colts (Baltimore) as Fuhrman did on page 125 of Murder in Brentwood, and McClinton alluded to in his preliminary hearing testimony against O.J. with trains and robberies, you get the James-Younger gang. They invented train robbery. On pages 128 and 129 (McClinton’s 1, 29 birthday) Fuhrman references preliminary hearings in the Goldman-Simpson and (unsolved) Shawn Stewart murder cases.

 

Fuhrman named his JFK book, A Simple Act of Murder: November 22, 1963.The last frame of Abraham Zapruder’s film was taken as the President’s Lincoln entered the Dealey Plaza underpass in Dallas, Texas. Railroad tracks ran across the overpass.

 

You can’t get away from the train and railroad track in front of the Palace Station Casino and everything associated with them. Factoring in the Civil War, you get Frank and Jesse James  riding and killing with “Bloody Bill” Anderson in the Centralia Massacre where they stopped a train carrying 23 unarmed Union Army soldiers and slaughtered 22 of them. A sergeant who courageously stepped forward to be killed to save his men was spared. Later in the day, Jesse James shot a major trying to take back the town in battle.

 

All of this loops back to William Mason, Nipper the dog and Las Vegas resident Michael McClinton, a.k.a. Randell Spencer and Terrance Dunlap. You also get an oblique reference to an unsolved murder that Fuhrman investigated as the lead detective other than the murder of retired Amy Sergeant Major Robert C Hurd in Las Vegas.

 

You probably never heard of William Mason although the locomotives he designed and built were instrumental in the outcome of the Civil War. He was the son of a blacksmith, a painter, mechanical engineer and key contributor to Samuel Colt’s gun manufacturing company. He invented the double-action Colts called the Lightning (favored by William "Billy the Kid" Bonney) in the Lincoln County War) and the Thunder.

 

Mason's own company supplied Springfield rifles while Colt supplied Spencers to the Union Army. He died on May 21, 1883 at the age of 74, the same age of Robert C. Hurd at his death on March 21, 1994. One source of information on Mason published in 1883 was written by Duane Hurd.      

 

Look at what you can do playing anagrams, drawing letters for ten significant names using the phrase, JACK RUSSELL TERRIER DOG NIPPER [Note: These names have 26 letters so they have to be repeated for each solution name totaling 65 letters.]

JCK USS TERRIER OG IPPER – RANDELL

JAK RUSELL TERRI DOG IPR - SPENCER

JK RUSSELL IR DOG IPPER - TERRANCE

 

JCK RSSEL TERRIER OG IPER - DUNLAP

 

CK RUSELL TERRIER DOG NIP - JASPER

 

JCK RUSELL TEIER D PPER – GARRISON

 

JC RUSLL TERRIER DOG IPPER – SNAKE

 

JAC RUL TERRIER DOG PER – PLISSKEN

 

JAC SSELL ERRIER DOG NIPPER – KURT

 

JACK TERRIER DOG NIPPER – RUSSELL

 

With Tombstone’s star Kurt Russell, born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Mass (March 21 was the first day of spring, when Robert C. Hurd was murdered in ’94) the only unused letter in the solution array is I. But when you add his alias “Snake Plissken,” in Escape from New York (’81), you use all of them. In the People article, Fuhrman wears his brown leather bomber jacket like Russell’s in Escape from New York where Russell also wears a beard and mustache similar to the man in Fuhrmans drawing and a patch over one eye like the dog. In The Fox and the Hound (1981) Kurt Russell is the voice of a dog. His name is the only one on the list that isn't an alias.

 

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Jasper Garrison in this name game is an alias for Sean (Shawn) Stone, who was born on December 29, 1984. He plays the son of New Orleans prosecutor Jim Garrison in his real life father Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie JFK and the young Jim Morrison in The Doors. Considering Fuhrman’s use of the unsolved Shawn Stewart murder case on page 129 of Murder in Brentwood, the day and year of Sean Stone’s birth has too much to do with Fuhrman, McClinton, O.J. and Wyatt Earp — of the Tombstone Earps — to ignore.

 

The fact that Kevin Costner is Jim Garrison in JFK as well as the title character in Wyatt Earp (’94) creates a loop that goes right back to William Mason's five-pointed star between the wheels of his Taunton locomotive in the photo of the Civil War train # 124.  

 

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http://www.historync.org/railroad-NCRRLocomotives.htm

 

A close competitor of William Mason in the locomotive building business (literally across the street) was “The Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company – Established at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1846 by Willard W. Fairbanks and G.S. Griggs. The company’s first locomotive, Rough and Ready, was shipped on May 19, 1847. By 1860, the firm had built 300 locomotives used all over the nation.”

 

“Old Rough and Ready” was the nickname that President Zachary Taylor, a Seminole War hero, earned in 1846 as an Army general in the Mexican War. Like Thomas Jefferson, Taylor was a slave holding Virginian who paradoxically opposed their contemporary Southerners’ stand on slavery. As the nation’s 12th President, Taylor actively opposed the expansion of slavery to the vast new territories ceded to the United States by Mexico. The Congressional Compromise of 1850 that Taylor did not live long enough to veto, set the wheels of civil war in motion. Vice President Millard Fillmore succeeded Taylor who died in office on July 9, 1850.  

 

O.J. Simpson was born on July 9, 1948. Millard Fillmore died on March 8, 1874. His gravesite in Buffalo, New York is marked by a pink obelisk inside an area bounded on four sided by iron fences with several tombstones inside. A plaque on the gate and the obelisk give salient details about his life and service as the 13th President of the United States but his tombstone is marked by only two letters, MF. His greatest claim to fame as President was signing The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which impressed U.S. marshals in free Northern states into the service of Southern slaveholders including the kidnapping of free black citizens who where not runaway slaves.

 

In tracking Mark Fuhrman’s rise from an obscure LAPD patrol officer to a national bestselling author, movie producer and Newscorp luminary, some things stand out because of sheer repetition. You see the first of them in pictures taken on the June 13, 1994 Bundy and Rockingham crime scenes of what the killer left behind and what Fuhrman went out of his way to associate himself with. You get all of those items and more in Fuhrman’s preliminary trial and murder trial testimony against O.J. Simpson.

 

By the time you get Fuhrman in print, on “talking machines” and other electronic media, you have enough to recognize his figurative footprints wherever he steps. More than one person can wear literal or figurative shoes that leave the same shoeprints. Footprints, like palm and fingerprints, are different. These “bare feet” impressions contain so many uniquely configured personal elements that only one person could have walked where they were left. But instead of scars, creases, looped and swirls, the I.D points on Fuhrman’s “footprints” are scrambled. They appear in multi-layered pieces of history, mythology, popular culture, word, name and number games, titles, themes, people, places, objects and geometric shapes like diamonds, hearts, triangles and five pointed stars. .

 

The items themselves are so numerous and apparently disjointed that you could quickly and easily get lost in trying to follow them. However, like all patterns, the ways in which they combine are definite and repetitious. They follow an orderly, logical progression in time or space from one element to the next. You know them when you see them because you’ve seen them before with the same common features that unite them like the stalk, center and petals of a flower or the cords, melodies and chores of musical scores.

 

The same unique configurations of elements are attached to the Bundy killer and Mark Fuhrman. They are recycled so many times in Fuhrman’s words and pictures that their reappearance in his next big venture or an old one that’s new to you becomes predictable.  It is as Miss. Marple wrote about the water in Nicole Simpson’s bathtub on June 13, 1994 that mysteriously disappeared, “I smell Fuhrman.”

 

Her olfactory observation came from a series of missing items on the 13th associated with Fuhrman – a leather glove missing from O.J.’s bedroom closet, a denim jacket missing from Nicole’s kitchen and no mention whatsoever of coins in Fuhrman’s notes.

 

Keep in mind what Fuhrman’s 12th and 13th Bundy crime scene notes say and don’t say about Nicole’s driveway and the rear gate separating the driveway and the backyard.

 

12) NEITHER VEH [WHT FERRARI [IN GARAGE/ BLACK CHEROKEE [REAR PARKING] WERE WARM TO TOUCH.

 

The Cherokee was on the driveway with the coins and the drop of blood between the alley and the rear gate. There was no way to touch  the Cherokee (the hood radiating heat from the engine) without being careful to avoid the coins.

 

13) AT REAR GATE ON N/S OF RESID – TWO BLOOD SPOTS AT BOTTOM INSIDE OF GATE. THIS AREA MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHERE THE DOG WAS KEPT. SUSP RAN THROUGH THIS AREA. SUSP POSSIBLY BITEN BY DOG?

 

“Suspect ran...” Think: Fugitive. 

 

Now think: U.S. Presidents, particularly the 12th and 13th Presidents, Zachery Taylor and Millard Fillmore

 

You would not think that this was the place to return to the #124 locomotive in Fuhrman’s drawing unless you know when that steam engine design first came into vogue. It’s the best clue to the period in history it depicts. The catch is that the period spans 50 years (remember Ulysses Simpson Grant on the $50 bill) from around 1850 to the early 1900s. But locomotives of that design were still on the tracks in the 1930s. So you have to start your search for the period at 1850 with a special meaning that the three-digit number 124 would have for Mark Fuhrman.

 

If you were ever a serious student of the American Civil War, the numbers 1, 2, and 4 will strike you immediately as somehow related to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 with a 3 mysteriously buzzing around in your head. Researching this unenumerated addition to the Constitution will tell you exactly where all four numbers fit in, apart from 3 being the missing numeral in the logical sequence 12_4.

 

Since 4 is the last digit in 124, you start with 4 and work backward to1.  

 

Act 4, Section 2 of the 1st law of the land (the Constitution) is called the Fugitive Slave Act although the applicable passage is only in clause 3 of section 2 (O.J.’s Buffalo Bills # 32): The legislation was authored by Virginia Senator James Murray Mason who left office on March 28, 1861. Mark James Fuhrman’s mother Billie  Murray Fuhrman  was born on March 28, 1923.  Although William Mason, the Massachusetts locomotive manufacturer of engine # 124  was no relation to Virginia Senator James Murray Mason, you need little imagination to see how those names would resonate with Mark Fuhrman.

  

The coins missing from Fuhrman’s Bundy notes where they should logically appear are magnified in their importance by their absence. This is especially so for Mark Fuhrman, a self-proclaimed “war and history buff” who pays close attention to details. If you were already thinking “fugitives" and "Presidents,” it’s because you already know the history of Andrew Jackson and “the five civilized nations” compose of the Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw and Seminole Indians.

 

In the War of 1812, Jackson led the military campaign against the Creek that won 22 million acres of land for the United States.  In March of 1830 Jackson became the 7th President of the United States and signed into law the Indian Removal Act of 1830. It took two Jackson Administration and one Buchannan Administration wars against the Seminoles and the black fugitive slaves living among them to move most of the Seminoles from Florida and Alabama to Oklahoma.  Jackson’s forced migration of 15,000 to 20,000 Cherokee at the point of Army bayonets from Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to Oklahoma was known as “the trail of tears” because of the 4,000 Cherokee who died on the march.

 

Looking at the coins on Nicole Simpson’s driveway through Fuhrman’s war and history eyes you see the 16th and 32nd Presidents most closely associated with the American Civil War (Abraham Lincoln on the penny) and WW II (Franklin D. Roosevelt on the dime). The Roosevelt name also gives you the 26th President Teddy Roosevelt (same name/ blood relative of Franklin and Eleanor). The war most closely associated with him was the Spanish American War, which catapulted him to the Presidency.

 

What should have been an unnecessary question of whether there was one dime and one penny or two dimes and two pennies on Nicole Simpson’s driveway is readily translatable into 11 cents and 22 cents. Vice President Lyndon Johnson became President in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd of that year – 11, 22. JFK, like Robert C. Hurd, was a veteran of WWII. Hurd was an Army combat engineer.

 

Four previous Vice Presidents took over the top job when the Presidents they were elected with died in office. In 1901, a steel worker named Leon Frank Czolgosz shot William McKinley to death with a .32 pistol at a reception in Buffalo, New York. His successor was Theodor Roosevelt, for whom the Teddy Bear was named. Millard Fillmore replaced Taylor and Chester Arthur replaced Garfield.  

 

Arthur was President on October 26, 1881, when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday squared off against the Clantons and McLaurys near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Lawlessness in the town was so rampant that Arthur threatened to seen troops and declare martial law. Crawley P. Dake, who appointed Virgil Earp a U.S. Marshall for Tombstone, was President Arthur’s U.S. Marshall for Arizona.

 

Virgil Earp fought in the Union Army, whose anthem became The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Where this gets back to the engineer in Fuhrman’s drawing, his 12th Bundy crime scene note referring to the Cherokee and the March 21st murder of Retired Army Sgt. Maj. Robert C. Hurd is in the second line of the first verse: “He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”

 

In John Ford’s screen version of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Henry Fonda as fugitive Tom Joad wears similar clothes as the man with the dog in Fuhrman's drawing. The only train you see in the movie is one crossing a bridge as the Joads cross the state line from Cherokee County, Oklahoma into Arizona. OK is the postal abbreviation for Oklahoma. A roadside sign advertising the movie says, “Starts Thursday Mar 21....”

 

 

In John Ford's My Darling Clementine with Victor Mature, Jane Darwell, Roy Roberts, Grant Withers and Russell Simpson, Henry Fonda is Wyatt Earp.

 

On page 33 of Death and Justice (copyright 2003), Fuhrman says this of former Oklahoma County District Attorney Bill Macy: "Macy was also a player on the national level, counseling presidents and attorneys general...When he was DA, a framed poster of the movie Tombstone hung on his office wall...The same poster hangs in my family room. To me it depicts a time and place where I would much rather have lived — if only it were real."

 

 

The stove pipe that cuts off the view of the entire Tombstone poster in the March 3, 1997 People Magazine article on Fuhrman is a window on birthdays, death days, his mother Billie, Presidents, a five-star Army general and an Army sergeant major.  Sergeant majors in the Army and the Marine Corps are the only noncommissioned officers in the U.S. military with a five-pointed star in their insignia of rank. Fuhrman called Sgt. Maj. Robert C. Hurd (by victim status, not name) a master sergeant. As a former Marine, he knew better.

 

The only character that you see on the poster is Morgan Earp. The Hurd connection is to  Bill Paxton, the actor who plays Morgan Earp. He was the punk leader killed by the ultimate political assassin in The Terminator, produced and co-written by Gale Anne Hurd. When you put "Bill" and "political assassin" together, it's hard not to think of the 25th President William McKinley (born on 1, 29, 1843)  There are many "Bill" connections to Mark and Billie Fuhrman, O.J. Simpson and Michael McClinton (born on 1, 29, 1958) but some name, birthday and death day links between Mark and Billie Fuhrman and Robert Charles Hurd Jr. merit special attention.

 

All of this is put into perspective by a search on the Internet Movie Database for Robert C. Hurd that turned up everything discovered in Blackenstein..

 

Billie Murray Fuhrman

 

Born March 28, 1923. Death day of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1969.   Married George Harold Gatton in 1960.

 

Robert C. Hurd's nickname, “Uncle Dottie”

 

When you enter “Uncle Dottie” in the IMDb the only thing that comes up is an actor named Charles Murray as “Dottie’s Uncle in a 1913 movie.

 

In the 1925 version of The Wizard of Oz, Charles Murray is the Wizard of Oz. In the classic 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan is The Wizard of Oz.   

 

 Robert Charles Hurd Jr.

 

Born: March 25,1919. Died March 21, 1994.  Buried April 14, 1994. Southern Nevada Veterans Center Boulder City Nevada.  Started military service in the Army on May 18, 1943 at a recruiting station in Oklahoma. Served his entire active military career in WW II, Korea and Vietnam as a combat engineer.  Ended Regular Army service on June 30, 1971 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Previous address Pomona, CA. Social security number issued in Mississippi.

 

Does it end there? No. It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and so on...