Mr. PAINE. But here, you see there may have been another pipe alongside
of it, I didn't particularly arrange it.
Mr. LIEBELER. I show you a blanket which has been previously marked as
Commission Exhibit 140, and ask you if that is the blanket that you saw
in the garage?
Mr. PAINE. Well, I think it looks cleaner than it was, than it struck
me then. And I may have said that it had more colors in it but that is
the mood of the colors there.
I think I would have--I can't absolutely identify this blanket. But
green and brown, it may have also had blue spots in it or something
like that.
Mr. LIEBELER. Would you say that this is not the blanket that was in
the garage? Take your time and examine it as closely as you want to,
do anything you want to with it.
Mr. PAINE. I would guess that--it looks a little, in here it looks
cleaner than I remember but otherwise it looks--the light isn't very
good in there and I always moved it around in the dark, I mean in the
night time. I had an impression that it was, it was somewhat more
mottling of the colors in it, that is to say, I can't identify this
absolutely.
It is a very good substitute for it, a good resemblance or good
candidate for, my memory of the blanket.
Mr. LIEBELER. Now, there were lights in the garage, were there not?
Mr. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you would have them on when you were working in there?
Mr. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. You said at one point you stored the blanket under your
saw?
Mr. PAINE. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. You had lights near your saw, didn't you?
Mr. PAINE. It is very dark there. There is a light on the saw but that
shines on the table.
Mr. LIEBELER. There is no light directly over the saw?
Mr. PAINE. No; there is one light in the garage out in the middle of
the room.
Mr. LIEBELER. Would you say that at any time that you moved the blanket
around in the garage that you would have had enough light to determine
the colors of the blanket?
Mr. PAINE. The green and the brown, those colors were in that blanket.
I had thought there was, it was dirtier, and I would have put blue
spots with it, something like that to make it fully come up to the
impression I had of the blanket.
Mr. LIEBELER. And those blue spots would have been a part of the
pattern of the blanket?
Mr. PAINE. Yes; sir.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember whether the design of this blanket,
Commission Exhibit 148, is approximately the same as the design on the
blanket which you saw in your garage or was it different?
Mr. PAINE. I don't remember the design of the blanket I saw in the
garage. I think somewhat, I didn't, if I had been the least bit curious
I could have at least felt of this blanket but I was aware of personal
privacy, so I don't investigate something.
Now what comes to my hand from touching the thing unavoidably I am free
to think about, but I think I was aware of not looking through his
belongings, the moral dictate. I know I was aware of that, I remember.
I remember that feeling.
Mr. LIEBELER. What about the texture of this blanket, does it seem like
the blanket?