The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-24
GORD0N'S WILL.
Some Further Information in tn
Matter Of Inks.

| The celebrated Gordon will case, which
has dragged along so wearily in the Couru
of Chancery, came to an end YESTERDAY
| afternoon, SO far as the taking of test4
| mony is concerned. 1t wound up with
sensation, which caused consider.
able surprise to the Chancellor an4
others present. Among the paper
| introduced to Substantiate th(
will of 1868 was one which Henry u
Adams swoie was the original draft o&
the 1868 Bill, in which some alterations
| and corrections were made in red ink
When this draft was introduced David M
| Carvalho, the expert in cnIrography, as
soon as he saw the red ink interlineations
| exclaimed
"Why, that's eosine inB, which was not
| known until 1875"
Acting on this hint the counsel for the
| contestants produced chemists and ex-
perts to prove that Mr.. Carvalho was
right.
Yesterday afternoon. when Prof. Steb7
bins had finished his testimony, Henry VI
| Adams was recalled. He said that some1
time between 1875 and 1879, George PI
| Gordon came to him and said he wanted
| a new will drawn. He had been sucf
cessful in business, and had much more
property to dispose of than he had
| in 1868, when the witness father drew up
| will for him. He asked H. G. Adams il
he could get him the Will of 49, which
was among the papers of the elder Adams
who had just then died. II. 9.
Adams replied that he had no control
| over his fathers papers. but he had the
original drafts, with Mr. Gordon's c0rs
rections, which he would let him have.
TOOK MANY PRECAUTIONS.
The witness continued that it was h1f
custom, whenever he let a valuable papeii
go out of his possession, to make falI
similie copy thereof with all the alter ali
tions. interlineationS and corrections jus
| as they were in the original. When he
gave Mr.. Gordon the original draft some
| time between 1875 and 1877 he made such
| draft. writing in the interlineationsand
alterations in red ink, the sam
as they were ~ the orielnai. n
| Gordon the original daft of the copy, but
| in the light of the expert testimony he
| has concluded that it must be the copy
| Mr.. Adams also said that before the redf
| ink controversy arose he told Mr.. Beckett
one of the counsel for the proponents, OF
| his perplexily, and Mr.. Beckett said thaf
| 1t did not amonnt to anything.
| TIL contestants counsel cross-ex-l
| amined Mr.. Adams vigorously, and even
| the Chancellor took a hand in the quest
! tioning, but all he would say was that h9
was not sure a mistake had been made
| but he rather Thought so, and consldereq q
| 1t his duty so TO testify.
| Mr.. Bechet corroborated Mr.. Adams
story about his perplexity. and then th4
| proponents introduced some expert testlF
mony. DR.. Entlermann, u well known
| New York chemist. produced samples OF
| aurine ink which would gtvE
| the same results under chemica
| tests as the eosine ink did. DR.
| Endermann was of the opinion that thE
| interlineation and corrections of thE
| draft of the 68 will were written if
| aurine ink rather than in eosine.
| On cross examination the doctor said
| that aurine lux was on the market ! \
4 1867
A certified copy of patent granted ih
| 1865 to DR.. Henry Ellis at Bangor. North
| Wales, for the aurine ink WAS offered it
| evidence.
Professor Henry Cornwall of Princeton
| College corroborated DR.. EndermAnn as t6
| aurine ink, and added that the forescent
properties tested by Prof SteDbins in tne
| morning could be found IN any red Ink ol
| could have been found In the aurine ink
| of the sixties. The tests for aurine anp
| eosiDe inks give similar results.
| Prof. L. NJ. Morton, OF the Boston In
| stitute OF Technology, in addition to COT
| roborating the above, said that in hIs
| opinion all chemical tests of ink whdl
made with minute quantities could be df
lusive as to general deductions.
The case then closed. and the argt
ment will be heard by the ChancellSl
| November 16 and H.