Mr. JENNER. Or jumped to a conclusion?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Would you describe these coveralls a little bit
further--they were full length?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Did they zipper or button down the front?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Well, that I wouldn't--you know, to make a statement to
say I knew, I wouldn't say, but I would almost say that they buttoned.
At least they had a button at the top.
Mr. JENNER. And did he normally have them buttoned up to the top, or
did he have them open at the throat?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes; he had them open, but another thing--you know--there
are little things, like we get to thinking about now--I know that these
old coveralls--he wore them like that [indicating].
Mr. JENNER. He wore them with the collar up?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes; and just flopping out.
Mr. JENNER. And you remember one occasion when the coveralls, while
they were long sleeved, somebody had sheared off the sleeves on a
particular pair?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes; they were just ragged, they were just chopped off.
Mr. JENNER. Otherwise, the sleeves were always long down to his wrists?
Mr. SHASTEEN. I'll tell you this--one of the barbers said his head was
dirty when he cut his hair, but he was always clean when I worked on
him.
Mr. JENNER. It's hard to explain.
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Would you describe these house shoes, please?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Well, yes; they were--I wish I could find something--they
were a darker yellow than this right here [indicating]. And they had a
much tanner sole on them--it was almost what you call a brown sole. It
wasn't a leather, it wasn't a rubber, it was like a neoprene.
Mr. JENNER. The soles were darker than the uppers?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Were they firm leather, or soft or pliable?
Mr. SHASTEEN. They were soft and nice, but they were sturdy house
shoes. Of course--like I said, I build a shoe up--one shoe and they
made me notice them, and they were the type you could have built one up
and they would still have stood up and been nice.
Mr. JENNER. Were these house shoes that had flat soles without heels?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes--they didn't have no heels--they may have had a
little heel, but I mean they didn't have an extra heel, because I
looked at them good. I mean, I wasn't interested in them until he said
he got them from Old Mexico, and I knew that was out.
Mr. JENNER. Were they the pull-on type or lace type?
Mr. SHASTEEN. No; they were the--just the pull-on type.
Mr. JENNER. Did they have any type of elastic in them?
Mr. SHASTEEN. No--no elastic--they were just like loafers to a degree,
only they were nice shoes--it was just a slip-on and they had a spur
piece in the back.
Mr. JENNER. A spur piece?
Mr. SHASTEEN. You know what I mean--the back wasn't so flexible--it was
firm--a fitted heel. They were just real nice.
Mr. JENNER. They had a reasonably firm or higher heel?
Mr. SHASTEEN. In other words--what I'm talking about--up on the back
part of them.
Mr. JENNER. The back part is what I'm talking about.
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What we call the heel of the shoe--the back of the shoe,
not the heel you step on.
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes--this part here and then they had a round thing, you
know, like this here [indicating] only it went out and dropped down to
a point out here and had a seam sewed around the top, whatever it was.
Mr. JENNER. Like a moccasin type?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes; they looked like a moccasin to a degree and these
loafers, as you called them, but they were in between.
Mr. JENNER. Were they perfectly plain other than the moccasin sewing?
Mr. SHASTEEN. Yes; I believe they were--they didn't have no--that's the
reason I thought they would have been from Mexico is they, if they had
had a lot of trimmings on them or something like that, but they didn't
have.
Mr. JENNER. Did they have fasteners of any type on them?
Mr. SHASTEEN. No; that's why I liked them. They were just something I
could've jumped in.
Mr. JENNER. No metal fasteners?
Mr. SHASTEEN. They didn't have nothing.
Mr. JENNER. Or even leather fasteners?
Mr. SHASTEEN. If somebody would find them I would still give two and a
half for them.