Mr. BALL. You don't think so?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. I have no more questions to ask you now, Mrs. Bledsoe, but
Mr. Jenner will ask you some questions.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. All right.
Mr. JENNER. I will get up here close so you will hear me all right.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. All right.
Mr. JENNER. I would like to go back to the day that he came to your
home on the 7th of October?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. You were out in your backyard?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. And did he come back there?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have a bell on your house?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. He knocked at the door.
Mr. JENNER. He knocked at the door and you heard him knock at the door?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. And I went around the front.
Mr. JENNER. And your home is all at one level?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. So, you walked through your house?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; I went through the yard and come around from the back
to the front yard.
Mr. JENNER. And you saw a young man at the door?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. How was that young man dressed on that occasion?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. I don't remember what he had on. Didn't pay any
attention. He was clean and that's all you see, but I didn't know what
color the pants were and what kind of shirt it was.
Mr. JENNER. Well, did he have a suit on or sportscoat, or just his
shirt?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Just the shirt. It was hot weather. October.
Mr. JENNER. Do you recall--did he have a tie on?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Mr. JENNER. The shirt, that was open at the front?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes, it wasn't those short shirts. I don't know what kind
it was. I didn't pay any attention to him.
Mr. JENNER. And this was a Monday morning.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Monday afternoon.
Mr. JENNER. Monday afternoon. Did he have a hat on?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Was he--did he have any luggage?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes; had one bag, I don't know whether it was a duffel or
what, but then he went on and got another one.
Mr. JENNER. Well, if you will permit me to stay with what he had when
you first saw him----
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. You call on your recollection and tell me all you can tell
me about the bag he had at that time, its size, its shape. In another
connection, Mrs. Bledsoe, it is prior events that are important to us.
If we can possibly find out or get as accurate a description as you can
give us. Sit there relaxed and tell us what you remember about this
bag, what size it was; what shape it was; whether it was hard; whether
it was soft, what color it was.
Was it zippered? How was it fastened?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. I don't know whether it was zippered or not. But seems to
me like it was, though.
Mr. JENNER. Just start from the beginning and tell us what you remember
about the bag that he had when you first saw him at the door.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, it was just a blue--like a canvas bag.
Mr. JENNER. Canvas?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. And, I don't know whether it was zippered or not.
Mr. JENNER. You don't recall a zippered sort of bag?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. I didn't even look. It was about that long, I guess
[indicating].
Mr. JENNER. You are indicating about 26 inches?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. About that long.
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Then, he had some things on his back.
Mr. JENNER. Now, would you mind if we stuck with the bag?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, that's all.
Mr. JENNER. Well, it was 26 inches long and you think it was canvas,
and you think it was blue in color?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What was its shape? Was it a round sort of soft kind of bag
or was it--did it have firm, stiff sides? Was it rectangular?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I couldn't say. Couldn't say. Didn't pay any
attention to it.
Mr. JENNER. Your recollection does serve you that it was not what we
would call a suitcase?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; looked like an inexpensive bag of some kind.
Mr. JENNER. And your memory doesn't serve you that there was any sort
of zipper thing, and you do seem to have a reasonably firm recollection
that the color of it was blue?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. JENNER. Did it have a handle on it?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.