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Under further questioning, Thomas said he’d left the margins for the typewriter in the standard position he used—a five space indentation and six inch tine, the same indentation and line length in the alleged will.
He recalled the Col. Holmes had a number of pieces of paper of various sizes with him that day and appeared to be "hunt and peck" typing from notes.
Under cross examination. Thomas said he didn't know of the w ill challenge until two weeks previously when Neilson. his friend and colleague since Thomas arrived at Bethesda. asked him to tell his lawyers what he remembered about Col. Holmes. He acknowledged that after the colonel’s death in November, 1979, he helped Neilson with the inventory taken at the farm and later stayed briefly at the farm "for security purposes."
He repeated, however, that he didn’t know the will was being contested until two weeks previously and had never mentioned seeing Col. Holmes typing until the discussion with Neilson’s lawyers. "It wasn’t relev .nt.” Thomas maintained.
Expert document examiner Dudley Davis verified that the typing on the alleged will had been done on an IBM selectric 11. that the signature on the bottom was the same signature that appeared on Col. Holmes’ checks.
As to the plaintiffs theory that misallignment of typing on the will showed that the body was typed after the signature and date lines. Davis stated that "there’s absolutely no w ay you can say
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