Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-16
CANNOT DISGUISE IT.
so SAYS A FAMOUS CALLiGRAPHlST
ABOUT HANDWRITING.

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Forgeries-some Notable Cause.-The
Dificulty of Proving Human Blood.
| 1t is the opinion OF pleasant little gen.
| tleman, a guest at the Gibson House, that
it is impossible for any man to successful
| ~ disguise his handwriting. IL would be
| Just as easy to live without breathing.
! While the writer might think that he
had so altered the appearance of his callig-
raphy that it would be out Of the ques-
ton for any person to recognize it as his
work, yet the variest tyro in the art OF
| Identification would have no trouble in
| proving the contrary.
| The gentleman in question is one of the
most famous experts in the United States
DR. Marshall d. Eweli of Chicago, presi-
Gent of tie Microscopical society and dean
of the Kent Law school of Chicago. He
was one of the microscopical experts in the
-eelebrated Cronin murder case, was one Of
| those who succeeded in demonstrating the
| falsity of the alleged will of the late Sena-
tor Joseph Mcdonald CT Indiana, and as
| sisted in overthrowing a notable conspiracy
| to seize rich mineral lands ut Duluth, the
value of the property at stake being almost
| inestimable.
| AS he beamed henevoently from be:ind
q rather large pair of gold bowed specta-
cles Mr. Ewell resemblcd ANYTHING rat her
| than an expert The hawklike ewes and
| the aouiliue nose. together with the raven
| black hair were absent Nor was the lean
| and 1.-THE fipure there. Mr.. EwelI is a
| stout!y built gentleman. below the average
size, wears silk skullcap and resembles
| n rood natnre,l schoolmaste err more than any
| other character.
| ..vbara ora many xravs of ferretino ont
| .ha ,,tho,s of honduritino II has tn he
| etudied for characteristics for n man i'm
| n,oacac cortoin ,.,,rl,eunon his chiroorauhv
| ~ ,,,,ch nc ba docs his I,nouooe-th.t is
| . rorso,, WHOSE b,htts are formed does
| T,bo ,,,recIes and nerves of natural writer
| o.+ almost rn.nnsoinusIv The moment
,ba tbouobt arises in the brain they re-
| snond vithout further volition ON the rart
| Of the writer. The only way to puzzle an
evnert in Identification j. for q man to first
write the letter or document which he uro
noses ia nee ~ u decention in his natural
stvle HAVING it before him he can then
nroceed IN ,n9ke y conv Of if having the
str;ctest attention TO earh individual stroke
| of his non for if is the unconscious core
hr,t;on tLat he n,,st Guard ao,inst
| "V'ith his ia, Io it. il almost imnossih le
| far most men NOT to hetrov themselves
Tbov ,yrite ot ccrt,ip ANGLES cross their to
the same way and have necuIiar habits; as
tn tho ru,,ine tooefber nf certain letters
| Ono Of rho bast cases that ! eyer had in hat
| liz. o,,,o fro,, Nortb ua,,n+op 7. Tho
| d,,,,btor az , nbvsiciop j., tb,t town bod
| Loan ,,royod hv rncsiy;nu tho most oh
ecara and filtbv latters from an anonvmous
writer Her fatbnr sent them with SAMPLES
| ~ Tho u,ritino If ensnocted nareon. to me
| l., o,Ja,. =, 49, nv. ltilI ba ,1so conf coma
~ his avn eorresnopdenca and a nooe form
fron, ,bn ,,inntae If a redicai society
| Within 10 minutes I had discovered that
tho nnrson who wrote the minutes also
wrote the letters. so Informed the father
He responded that | was mistaken. ms the
gentleman who had written the minutes
w.s his husiness mariner and above sus
picion At my request he came to Chi
| caoo and | convinced him, Of the iustice Of
NV allegations He went home and ar
cused his mariner of the viIlainv. That
| rnrsor brola down and confessed
an tba NcDorald win case the TYNE.
ur;tnr toured the ATTORNEYS for the de-
fepso with whom I WAS allied believing
| 4bot Tho Last sbeat of the will had hean re
written and added to the whole. | did not
! believe this but unset the forgery on an
other common thing in Identification. The
SIGNATURES that appeared on the duplicate
comics were too exactly alike to be genuine.
No man ever writes his signature alike
twice. even though he wrote it a Thousand
times. In this case when the duplicate
sheets for the will was supposed to be
written donblv) were held up to the LIGHT
the signatures seemed as one. Thisshowed
that care had been taken to get them in
the same place and to write them AS nearlv
as possible alike. They were too careful,
and thus left an opeuiuu for their own de-
struction.
Tho Du,,tb LAND casa ,vas . MACMILLAN
tbi,., INC nronartv involved wos known
n. soctiop 20 and rho d;sp,tod manor Land
scr;n In makinu tho bogus entries the
constructors FORGOT Ia fill in certain sneci-
fed hianks and when the case came trial
triad tn shov that the WRITING had been
or,sod Aueood axnarts wore nroduced
vic declared that nhdor rho microscone
,hev could wake ont the words in question
Tbov b,d NOT haeu we'll drilled for thew
made fatal mistakes in the words that
ought to have anneored and Tins lost their
c,se
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