Andreas and the 'laundry bundle'

I read another post where somebody goofed on the laundry roll that Andreas carries....gee, vampires need someone to do their laundry? :) Well, I recall reading elsewhere (maybe it was in a Lugosi biography) that this film got heavily re-edited prior to release. All the scenes with the laundry roll were ultimately to convey when Andreas went to meet the real Bruckner, killed him, and took his belongings to Tesla. The way the re-editing came out, it appears as if he's often carrying a bundle for different reasons and different times, making little sense of the purpose of it.

If anyone can add to this, please do, especially any evidence of an original edit and perhaps early responses by audiences leading to the need for a re-edit, if that's what happened.....