Mr. Stombaugh.

I was using white gloves at the time I examined this and the gloves became quite soiled from the fingerprint powder.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you find anything else?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No; nothing on the outside of the bag.

Mr. Eisenberg.

How did you conduct that examination, by the way?

Mr. Stombaugh.

With a low-power microscope.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you find any cotton fibers on the outside of the bag at all, Mr. Stombaugh, white or colored?

Mr. Stombaugh.

There were white cotton fibers on the outside but I was using a pair of white cotton gloves, so these would be of no value. White cotton is the most common thing we have in the way of textiles, and therefore it just doesn't have sufficient individual characteristics to be of value for comparison and identification purposes. It is for this reason that we use gloves of this material.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And those fibers may have come from your white cotton gloves?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes; they could very easily have come from my gloves from handling the object with a pair of gloves on.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you proceed to examine the inside of the paper bag to see if there were any foreign objects?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes; I did.

Mr. Eisenberg.

What were your conclusions?

Mr. Stombaugh.

I removed the debris from the inside of the bag by opening the bag as best I could, and tapping it and knocking the debris on to a small piece of white paper, and I found a very small number of fibers. Upon examining these fibers, I found a single brown, delustered, viscose fiber and several light-green cotton fibers from the inside of the bag. I also found a minute particle of wood and a single particle of a waxy substance.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you attach any significance to the particle of wood, Mr. Stombaugh?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No; it was too minute for identification purposes. It could have come from any surface, including the bag itself. Sometimes all of the wood used in the manufacture of paper doesn't go into a pulp, and this might be a very tiny such fragment.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you examine the wood fragment?

Mr. Stombaugh.

I looked at it microscopically.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you attempt to compare it with the wood or the Exhibit 139, which is a rifle?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes; the wood particle from the bag was too minute for comparison purposes. There wasn't much you could do with it, it was very small.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you attach any significance to the body wax--or to the wax, I should say?

Mr. Stombaugh.

The wax particle I noticed, and I recalled having seen wax on the shirt, Exhibit No. 673, so therefore I put that aside for a spectrographic examination and comparison of the wax particle from the inside of the bag with the wax from the shirt.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And what were the results?

Mr. Stombaugh.

They were entirely different.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Was there any analysis made of the wax in the bag as to its origin, do you know?

Mr. Stombaugh.

It was examined by the spectrographic examiner and he found it was just common wax.

Mr. Eisenberg.

When you say common wax, do you mean the kind you wax a floor with?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No; more like that which could have come from a candle, candle wax.

Mr. Eisenberg.

What about the wax on the shirt as to origin?

Mr. Stombaugh.

It was paraffin.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Now you also said there were several fibers, Mr. Stombaugh?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes, sir; I did. There was a single brown delustered viscose fiber and several light-green cotton fibers.