Mr. Eisenberg.

Do you recall how many dark blue fibers you got from the butt plate?

Mr. Stombaugh.

I believe a total of six or seven fibers from the butt plate and three of them are blue fibers and all matched.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Do you recall whether they were one or more shades?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Two shades.

Mr. Eisenberg.

So that two of the fibers were two different shades of blue?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And they matched two different shades of blue in the shirt out of a total of three different shades of blue?

Mr. Stombaugh.

That is correct.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And you testified before there were about 50 to 100 ranges of shade of green cotton. What about the ranges in shades of blue cotton?

Mr. Stombaugh.

The same would apply to blue cotton.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And the ranges in shades of orange yellow cotton?

Mr. Stombaugh.

The orange-yellow cotton I have here----

Mr. Eisenberg.

674.

Mr. Stombaugh.

This is a shade of a yellow cotton fiber, it appears orange yellow under a microscope. Sometimes you get greenish yellow. These will vary, the orange-yellow shade itself might be only two variations in orange yellow, but in a greenish yellow it might be 50 to 100.

Mr. Eisenberg.

There was a gray-black cotton fiber in the shirt. Were they uniform between themselves as to color?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes; these were uniform.

Mr. Eisenberg.

How many shades of gray, in the gray-black area, can you distinguish?

Mr. Stombaugh.

The gray-black in itself would be similar to the orange yellow and would be possibly two or three.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And in the black taken as a broader----

Mr. Stombaugh.

Black taken in itself would go from, all the way from, very grayish-light gray all the way down to dense black.

Mr. Eisenberg.

How many different shades can you distinguish?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Black is different. There are only about 25 or 30 shades, I would say, in black.

Mr. Eisenberg.

So you identified the fibers you found on the butt plate as matching the fibers you found in the shirt, not only as to color but as to shades within those colors, out of a range going from 25 in the gray-black or black area to 50 to 100 in the yellow and blue areas?

Mr. Stombaugh.

That is correct.

Mr. Eisenberg.

And degrees of twist were all the same?

Mr. Stombaugh.

They were the same.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Any other characteristics?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Just type of fibers, they were all cotton fibers.

Mr. Eisenberg.

On the basis of these examinations, did you draw a conclusion as to the probability of the cotton fibers found in the butt plate having come from the shirt pictured in Exhibit 673?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes, sir; it was my opinion that these fibers could easily have come from the shirt.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Could you go into that in a little more detail, Mr. Stombaugh?

Mr. Stombaugh.

Yes. Mainly because the fibers or the shirt is composed of point one, cotton, and point two, three basic colors. I found all three colors together on the gun.
Now if the shirt had been composed of 10 or 15 different colors and types of fibers and I only had found 3 of them, then I would feel that I had not found enough, but I found fibers on the gun which I could match with the fibers composing this shirt., so I feel the fibers could easily have come from the shirt.

Mr. Eisenberg.

Mr. Stombaugh, I asked you a hypothetical question before concerning whether the rifle could have been a mechanism for transferring fibers from the blanket into the paper bag, and as I recall you said it could have.
Now, is it inconsistent with that answer that no fibers were found on the gun which matched the fibers in the blanket?