Welcome to the forums from the Wiregrass! Can you post some pictures of the gun. It is either a .32 Hand Ejector or a .32 Regulation Police from 1948-49. If it has a round butt it is a Hand Ejector, a square butt is a Regulation Police. We can tell you what you are missing if you feel like you can remove the sideplate and take a picture of the action. To remove the sideplate, remove the grips then carefully remove the 4 screws with a hollow ground, properly sized screwdriver. Don't mix up the screw at the lower front with the other screws. It is the yoke screw that when loosened or removed allows you to remove the cylinder from the frame for cleaning and must go back into the hole it came from. Hold the gun by the barrel and rap the grip frame with a wooden or plastic tool handle to vibrate the sideplate loose. This will expose the action and you can take pictures and post them for us to see what was removed.