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?