Mr. Eisenberg. The tape is also two colors, one a lightish brown and the other a darkish brown. What color was the tape when you received it?
Mr. Stombaugh. The tape also was light brown.
Mr. Eisenberg. Could you turn the bag over? Was it the color that shows as a lighter yellowish-type of brown?
Mr. Stombaugh. Yes; a yellow-brown shade.
Mr. Eisenberg. When did you receive it, by the way, Mr. Stombaugh?
Mr. Stombaugh. This was received on November 23, 7:30 a.m., 1963.
Mr. Eisenberg. Did you form any opinions as you examined it, concerning the construction of the bag?
Mr. Stombaugh. When I looked at the bag and examined it, it struck me as being a homemade bag such as I could make. Occasionally I will have a need for something like this at home. Therefore, I will take some brown paper and a strip of tape home with me. Then when I get home I will fold the tape—fold the paper rather—in the shape I need—and to seal it up I will tear strips of the sealing tape from the little piece I have.
Here we find that this tape has been torn at several places, such as one would do in an instance like that. Due to these torn edges, I was under the impression, from looking at the bag, that it was a homemade bag which someone had made at home and they did not have a tape dispenser which machine-cuts tape. Therefore, they had to tear it, which they did—or cut it, of course—with a knife. And this is the case where pieces of tape were torn.
Mr. Eisenberg. You were pointing to various torn edges as you testified, is that correct?