Your speculative guess about what she meant isn't any more correct than anybody else's, and it's certainly not something you can just declare as a fact. "It" could refer to the package, not "the bottom". You can't determine that from a transcript. She could have started to say something like "and the bottom was a few inches off the ground", but interrupted herself to say "he carried it this way", demonstrating a right-handed grip near the top of the package. Either way, she says nothing about the left hand. It's all in your mind.
My fault for not posting her complete statement on how the bag was being carried as you obviously were unaware of what she had already stated about the top of the package before she focuses on the bottom of it . She had already explained how the top was being carried and then she shifted her explanation to the bottom by stating “and”--- “and the bottom”. So, you are now speculating she now explains again how the top was being held? By using the word “bottom” That actually makes sense to you? John. logic is your specialty don’t let it fail you now.
Linnie May--
”and he carried it in his right hand, had the top sort of folded down and had a grip like this, and the bottom, he carried it this way, you know, and it almost touched the ground as he carried it”
This is two completely different explanations for two different areas of the bag.
What is obvious, is you clearly understand how her statement cannot be used to explain a shorter bag than her estimate of 42 inches. Too bad it was Ball questioning her and not Specter. Specter would have understood the problem with her 27 inch estimate and expounded upon it. Ball not so much.
