The Portland daily press., 1892-10-27
MORE EXPERT EVIDENCE.
Continued from Fifth Page.

ter A is disconnected from the Ietter
preceding it. The same is true OF the
small c..
Now these are three important pecu-
liarities of Mr.. Burrowes's original hand
writing. But in the three anonymous
letters this rule is the opposite.
In the loop letters of Mr.. Burrowes'
writing the loop is always short, while
in the anonymous letters the converse is
true.
Witness noticed also difference in
the tipping of the crossing OF the rs
Also the real letters are written with
little pen pressure.
Strokes below the line are short while
in the disputed letters the reverse is
true.
In punctuation, also, it was to be no.
ticed that there was very little in the dis
puted letters, while comas and colons
were frequent in the genuine letters.
SIN the matter of pen pressure said
the witness, 'that is very important
factor. Every man possesses to a great
er or less degree
A Certain individuality of Handwriting.
When he reaches the age of 26 or u he
begins to form handwriting that is go
ing to keep with him for the balance of
his life, and it begins to contain his own
individualism. That individualism he
incorporates to a greater OF less extent
into his writing. The hand just taught
to make the lines becomes, from prac
tice, simple machine. 1t does what it
is told, and if there is no care or thought
in the writing the mind operates Instant
ly on the muscles and nerves, and there
is placed on the paper unconsc1ously,
without his knowledge, the peculiarities
or Municipalities, as | term it, SO that
where nerve tremor i'll making turn,
is habit, an examination under strong
glass will reveal that habit and locate it;
perhaps not at that particular place, but
somewhere very near it, allowing for the
variation in mans physical condition.
No man ever writes twice exactly the
same. Two signatures that are fac SINH
les of each other-one is forgery. 1t
is not possible to duplicate signature
that when superimposed one over the
other YOU will have line for line and
mark for mark"
Now Mr.. Burrowes begins his pen
pressure at the top, and this pressure is
carried down very evenly. In the anonys
nous letters, on the other hand, the
pressure of the instrument is different.
There are several ways to write. One
is by laying the wrist on the table and
writing with the finger. another by rest
ing the forearm and making combina-
ton movement of forearm and fingers,
and third is the modern Spencerian
system, which grasps the pen firmly
with the fingers and carries it along rig
idly by a swing of the forearm.
These forms of movements make up
the movement And he found that the
Burrowes letters were written by one
movement and the anonymous letters by
another.
MI. Carvalho did not believe Mr.. Bur-
rowes could have written the anony
nous letters without forgetting himself
and dropping into some of his own char
acteristics.
Another point brought out by the wit
ness was IN regard to the
Two Envelopes,
one directed to Mrs. Pease May. IA, 81,
and the other July, 20, 49,, Witness said
the addresses of these two envelopes
were sonearly identical that the person
who addressed the last one must have
had the first one as a model with which
to do it.
The witness said that the one who
wished to copy or forge the handwriting
of another must be able:
Ito duplicate as best be can the
copy.
3.--And most important he must be
able to hide himself.
| think Mr.. Burrowes could not, how
ever, have concealed himself, even if he
could have imported peculiarities of
others into his own handwriting and
carried through the style.
The Cross Examination
then began, Mr.. Rand conducting it. Mr..
Rand first called up the base line feature
and asked if the one who wrote the
the anonymous letters might not have
written on the line for a disguise.
Witness said he might have.
In regard to the disconnection of the
D-fnal Mr.. Rand asked if this was the
invariable habit. The witness said
it was. Mr. Rand called attention to the
word paid in one of the standards and
asked If the ] and D We're not connect
ed. The witness affirmed very positive
" that that they were not connected.
He affirmed the same thing with equal
positiveness of other letters which Mr.
Ra1Q Clleu. 6ACCPI III OHS CdSo 8uoIo
witness said there was a connection.
Mr.. Horace w. shaylor
of Portland, teacher of penmanship in
the schools of Portland since 1870, was
next called He said he had frequently
testified in the courts.
Mr.. Rand asked him if he had studied
disguised handwritings and he said he
had.
MI. Shaylor then went on to testify
that in his opinion Mr.. Burrowes did not
write the anonymous letters. He based
his opinion on characteristics rather than
on resemblances Of letters. There was
the matter of writing above the line, and
a peculiar downward slope of the line at
the termination of words which were
characteristic of Mr.. BulTowes's writing
and not of the writing in the anonymous
letters. Mr.. Shaylor then went on to
mention other peculiarities, many of them
confirmatory Of the testimony just given
by Mr.. Carvalho. Mr.. Shaylor further
said that in his opinion the writer OF the
anonymous letters intended to disguise
and also copy.
When shown the two envelopes, the
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