Sometimes in a cotton fiber, the twist will be rather far apart. Other times it will be rather close together. This piece----

Mr. Eisenberg.

So that the fibers, the cotton fibers, to begin with, matched in twist, that is, the cotton fibers you found in the paper bag matched the twist of the ones that are contained in the blanket, and you said they also matched in color?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Eisenberg.

I would like to ask you the same question as to color that I asked you as to twist. How many different shades do you think you can distinguish under the microscope in a green cotton? Would the range be Just 2 or 3 different shades, or do you think you could distinguish between 20 or 30 different types of green cotton if you laid them next to each other under the microscope?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No; the range in green cotton fibers, for that matter in any color, is tremendous. This could go to 50 sometimes 100 different shades which you can distinguish under a microscope. To the naked eye, it would look as if it is just green. But you could take, say five different fabrics of the same type that have been dyed exactly the same color or rather you think they are the same shade, and put the individual fibers under the microscope and there will be a big difference noted in shades.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Now were the green cotton fibers in the blanket uniform as to shade between themselves?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No; these varied.

Mr. Eisenberg.

To what extent?

Mr. Stombaugh.

They go from a green to a very pale green.

Mr. Eisenberg.

So that the----

Mr. Stombaugh.

Might be seven or eight different shades.

Mr. Eisenberg.

So when you say there is a match, you mean the green cotton fibers you found in the paper bag were within the spectrum of shades that are laid out in the green cotton fibers from the blanket--is that correct?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No. I forget how many different shades of green I found in this blanket. Under the circumstances, I considered the exact number of no particular significance. But we will say it might be possibly eight different separate shades, and the fibers I found from the blanket matched some of these shades. Not all of them; but there might be a medium-green fiber that I found in the bag, which I matched with a medium-green fiber from this blanket. It might have been one that had a yellowish-green tinge to it, which I also matched with the yellowish-green tinged cotton fibers from the blanket. So unless the colors match absolutely, there is no match.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Do you recall how many green cotton fibers you found in the paper bag?

Mr. Stombaugh.

I have here in my notes "several"

Mr. Eisenberg.

Yes?

Mr. Stombaugh.

I have here in my notes "several light green cotton fibers," which would be approximately two or three.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Do you recall whether they represented two or three different shades?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes; they were all different from each other but each matched the cotton fibers in the blanket.

Mr. Eisenberg.

So you had two or three cotton fibers of two or three shades of green in the bag, and they matched against these two or three of the seven or eight shades of green cotton which were in the blanket, is that a correct recapitulation?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And you say there are 50 to 100---approximately--green shades of cotton that can be distinguished under the microscope?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes; I would say that is true. This would vary from dark green, of course, all the way up to light-pale green.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Did you find anything else within the bag, Mr. Stombaugh?

Mr. Stombaugh.

No, sir; that is all I found inside the bag.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Now, what do you think the degree of probability is, if you