The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11

copy anything or do original wark An
expert typewriter gave me the tip TO 90
this, and | asCribc my easy finger motion
those six weeks preliminary exercises.
OF course there are exceptions to the rule
In everything, but find the finest opera
tors TO have pursued the same course. 1t
is not necessary to be taught by another
operator the close study of the book OF
rules will suffice.
IMPORTANT EXPERT TESTIMONY.
"There recently came up in one Of the
New York courts case that hinged on
the testimony of typewriter expert, and
in which the individuality of n typewriter
operator was discussed. The case was a
most enjoyable one from an experts point
of view, and full Of interest to the average
reader. AS the case developed il became
necessary to find out whether one page OF
a long typewriter document in evidence
had not been replaced with another, IN
which the words had been changed. The
suspected page was evidently written on
the same kind of machine as the others.
| The difference between instruments Of the
various manufacturers was therefore, Of
no service
The expert in question testified that
as "a general ruleit was not difficult for
an expert to distinguish between the
writing upon different machines Of the
write so nearly alike as to make it impos-
sible to determine upon which OF them
certain sheet was turned out. Still
there were many little marks of variance
in the writing of different machines and
even of the some one, at different times
or when used by different persons. The
expert said that he did not believe that
the page in question was written at the
same time thai the others were nor by
h. A mi hpnn
written on the same machine, but not
! cOnsecutiVely.
The reasons given for this conclusion
were, in the first place, that the type
used on page II were clean on the
others many of the small letters were
clogged up. The e. and s. were espe-
cially bad TIE ribbon used for page II
was not so much worn as that for
! the rest of the document, and the writing
was more uniform in color The latter
fact was in part due TO the superior skill
of the writer of the single page. The let
tiers were in better alignment on that
page than on the others, in which the u
and e. were badly out of their proper pO-
| sition. In page II the Il was ac-
! curately conferred; in the rest IL was to
| the left of where it should be-
''The 'p' was upright on the suspected
! sheet, and leaned a tritie on the others,
! being turned in the bar. The one sheet
| also had a wider margin by two spaces
| than those which followed and preceded
! it, When asked why he believed that
! different persons wrote the sheets, the
/ expert said that the operator who turned
out page seventeen was more expert than
| the other The formers touch was more
! uniform none Of his letters seemed to
override each other, as was sometimes
! the case on the other pages. His punctu-
alton marks did not perforate the paper.
The indentations Of his paragraphs were
six spaces, against five on the rest Of the
document He used three spaces be-
tween his sentences the others only
two. The frst made a space after
comma, the second did not
THE EXPERT SUSTAINED.
oThe writer Of the bulk of the paper
was less acquainted with the rules Of
punctuation than was the other man.
One man always put a period and colon
after the words to wit the other used
only a comma. For the figure ], in the
paging Of the sheet seventeen, a figure II
was used; on the other sheet capital
~. The case was so clear that the jury
could hardly help agreeing with the ex-
pert's conclusions.
The quality Of uniformity Is one in
which good typewriters may differ
greatly. Some strike harder with the
right hand than with o left, and thus
stamp their work ind' Others oc-