Mr. EISENBERG. I am not sure you understood a question I asked one or
two questions ago.
I just want to make clear here if the gun was not wrapped in a
cloth--let's assume hypothetically that the gun was not wrapped in
a cloth and was, also hypothetically, inserted into this paper bag.
Is there any absence of marks which would lead you to believe that
this hypothesis I just made couldn't be--that is, that it couldn't be
inserted, without a covering, into the paper bag without leaving more
markings than were present?
Mr. CADIGAN. No. The absence of markings to me wouldn't mean much. I
was looking for markings I could associate. The absence of marks, the
significance of them, I don't know.
Mr. EISENBERG. Now, getting back to the paper bag, 142, and the tape
thereon, just for a second, and the tape found on the, obtained from
the, TSBD on November 22, Exhibit 677, were the widths of the tapes the
same?
Mr. CADIGAN. Similar. They were not exactly the same; no.
Mr. EISENBERG. Can you explain that?
Mr. CADIGAN. Yes; the width of the tape on the paper sack, Exhibit 142,
I measured at 3 inches, and the width of the manila tape on Exhibit
677 obtained the night of November 22, I measured as 2.975. There is
twenty-five one-thousandths of an inch difference.
Mr. EISENBERG. Would that lead you to believe that they couldn't have
come from the same roll?
Mr. CADIGAN. No; certainly not.
Mr. EISENBERG. Not enough of a variation to lead to that conclusion?
Mr. CADIGAN. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. How wide do these rolls come in your experience, in what
widths do they come?
Mr. CADIGAN. Normally they are supplied in, I believe, 1-, 1-1/2-, 2-,
2-1/2-, and 3-inch widths.
Mr. EISENBERG. So this was basically of a 3-inch width variety out of
several possible alternatives?
Mr. CADIGAN. Yes.
Mr. EISENBERG. Is there any other information you would like to give us
or any other testimony you would like to give us on the subject of the
origin of the paper in the 142 bag?
Mr. CADIGAN. Well, possibly the comparisons made of paper samples from
Jaggars Chiles-Stovall and from the William B. Riley Co.
Mr. EISENBERG. These are, you have mentioned two companies at which
Oswald was employed at one time?
Mr. CADIGAN. Yes.
Mr. EISENBERG. You obtained paper from these companies, did you?
Mr. CADIGAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG. And you matched them to see if they matched--you tested
them to see if they matched the paper in the bag 142, is that correct?
Mr. CADIGAN. Yes; that is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. And your conclusion was what?
Mr. CADIGAN. That they were different.
Mr. EISENBERG. Yes. Anything else?
Mr. CADIGAN. That is about it.