Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-11

Fort Worth. Applause1. Mr.. Fur.
man replied and said the trial came
out ut the request OF DIR. Murphy and
went out into q speech on the points OF
woman, fiom which he was interrupt-
cd by one of the council amidst great
applause.
Mr.. Ball said he knew why the
charge that Dr.. Murphy instituted the
trial, he other side wanted to try 10
shiit the responsibility of charges from
themselves 20 DR., Murphy.
Mr.. Ball then read the letter which
| shows how the trial originated.
Mr.. Furman said this kind OF trial
was not what they wanted, and stated
that DIR. Murphy had first given the
Information to The public by consent
ing 10 the publication, and that Mr..
Eaton wanted to clear his name Of n
stain east upon ii 10y such reports.
Letter y, dated Januar, 9th, was
read, in which S. NJ Furman said he
felt That he had deeply wronged pr.
Murphy and his daughter and Offering
MS friendship from thence forward.
Ihe explanation was msoe by Mr..
| Furman that Professor White had
acknowledged kissing Miss Murphy,
and hence the change OF 5. NJ. Fur
mans feelings in regard to Dir. Muir
| ply and his daughter
MIR. w. NJ. Vance WAS sworn and
said 81 anl stenographor. | have
had experience In deciphering hand
writing. My business has led me
very closely to study handwriting.
have no opinion In the matter but
my experience has led me to examine
! closely. The anonymous letter was
handed him. He said in letters n, b
and, l notice no similarity, the word
Eaton in the anonymous and the
signature in the genuine one is SINH
lar the pen is carried down and both
are finished in the same way. The
letters bear II strong resemblance, but
| would not give opinion. There is
not sufficient evidence TO say the two
words, Eaton, We're written by the
same party, but there is strong resem-
hlance in them. | notice the charac.
teristtcs of the letter w that they are
detached in all cases. Anonymous let
ter is certainly in "a disguised hand"
In Disgusting an attempt is made to
write back-hand. The party who
wrote the anonymous letter had nc
great skill. think the writer is not
|
letters show. In the anonymous let
ter and the letter TX - the two words
Eaton have some characteristics. The
capital AS are almost identical.
notice something similar in the letter
L. In my judgment the signatures
bear such resemblance that they wer,
written by the same person. | motto,
the same similarity in the letter -. Ii
| Lott / Han. ~. statt.
but not 80 strongly as in letter n.
notice in two words church that boil
words are separated on the letter II
, Both words are terminated by an up
, ward touch of the pen. | would no
say they were written by the sam,
person. / notice in TIN
Two letters, the anonymou
one and IN" that the y in al
most every case 10 separated from OF
!, in you or your. The initial w is sep
arate in almost every case in both LEI
tiers. | notice the final in both let
tiers are similar. / notice quite
, resemblance in the RS In both Letters
they are pointed in both letters; yer
characteristic in almost every case i
both letters. notice in the wor
your the last letter is the same kin
in both letters; the final + is mad
something like ~" / don't kno'
that / see any other similarities.
should say they were written by th
, same persons. In my judgment th
/ characteristics of the word "Eaton
/ are so strong and the other characte
q istics are so strong should think the
q We're written by the same persons.
have been introduced 10 Miss Murph.
!. | don't know that ever spoke to h
i. since. / don't know Mr.. Eaton"
o CROSS. EXAMINED.
The strongest evidence is IN IL
word "Eaton," but other strong ev
dence appears throughout the letter
Mr.. Furman then took the Letter
l and asked for resemblances, and poin
+. ed out that the writing was dissimill
in many respects. After a wordy wa
! between counsel, the word Eaton,
which occurs in both letters, WI
taken up and the witness said that h
. thought the words "Eatono wei
alike aud that in conjunction wit
other similarities warranted his say
ing they were written by the sam
person. He stated that the wor
Eaton was written two ways in tn
anonymous letter. Witness said pai
ties were often mistaken. but II wa
not matter of opinion. There ar
very few cases where two letters coul'
be written In the same characteristic
by two persons. Single words can b.
written alike by two persons. IL !
practically Impossible for u person u
write whole letter without lettinl
} some of his characteristics appear
Based opinion on general Characters
: tics but the words Eaton are strong
est evidence.
MR. JOHN NICHOLS
. then took the stand aud was sworn
The letters 10, 10, and l6, genuine, an'
letter X, disputed, were handed hin
by counsel and he was asked
His Judgment AS TO whether tbel
were written by the same person
Letter X. is the famous one com
mencing, "Here's my story, and thu
others were written by Miss Murphy
Mr.. Nichols said, in his opinion. thu
the same person did not write them
The letters j and X were not writer
by the same party who wrote letter 10
Letter X, disputed, was compared
with letter., genuine. Witness stated
that no resemblance existed between
them. Letter l. was pronounced moi
genuine. Letter / was pronounced
not genuine. This letter Is the one
appointing the famous buggy ride
Letter n was pronounced not genu-
Inc. All the disputed letters were pro-
nounced not genuine by the witness
The anonymous letter was then com.
pared with genuine letters OF Eaton.
| In good many respects the anony-
NOUS aud the genuine letter looked as
though they were written by the same
person.