The morning call., 1894-09-21
shaggy head, spin him round and round
ILL be sank TO earthieXhausted2

shaggy head, spin him round and round
till he sank TO earthiexhausted?
And, then, did yOn Ilace your foot
upon his breast. and drawing your dagger,
say to him: Now, yield thee. or by him
" no made the world thy life blood dyes
my blade? Just imagine. gentlemen.
Johnson saying, IN givs in; Pm over
ruled, that's all. Wen call Kytka and
Young and Eisenschimel. Pm sick of the
torture of being worried and overruled by
Mr.. LiDfOrth"
when johnson went after +. O. Young
and as ked him to testify lie was overruled.
When he called Mt Eisenschimel's house
that Thursday and babe him be sure and
come to court be was simply overruled.
And in the last stages of this case, when
he put the iiustrious Theodore Kytka on
the stand. he was simply overrupd, wor-
ried and tortured into submission by
Linforth.
a learned man, but that IL his parents had
had any idea that learned Sacramentan
was in the future they'd have chrIstsned
HIM Grove-not Samuel JohnsOn-Dr.
Grove johnson! But this same Sam
johnson sometimes burrOwed so much In
the classics that when he spoke he was
occasionally unintslligible. A noted
friend of his once said, he sometimes
spoke English and sometimes john
soueSe."
Il fear, gentlemen" said Delmas, "that
when this man said he was Overruled by
Mr.. Linforth our Sacramento friend spoke
not English, but Johnsonese." There was
a general laugh in court at this sally.
Counsel said be did not agree with
wholesale denunciaiion of experts. None
such were infallible, of course. Nor did
they always agree. Doctors did not agree,
LAWYERS did rot always agree. nor Judges.
justices nor Jurors. If everybody agreed
there would be no law, no courts. no
banks, no bank tellerS, no checks. Experts
were valuable. not merely for their opin-
ions, but for tho work they performed
Even if they conflict, their labOrs are USE
tul and should be appreciated by juries.
The experts in the case called ON behalf
of Mrs. Henry Martin were good men,
men of established regulations in the city.
There were Maxwell. Fogle. Schmidt and
BTeckenfeld; all were men occupying
high positions in well-known banks.
Now, who was Breck enfield, in the first
Mace? His history was simple epough h.
Eighteen years ago he occupied subordi-
naie position in bank In San Jose. While
there an incident occurred which the
counsel well knew. A check for $500.
purporting 10 be drawn by Judge Law
renee Archer, was paid by the bank. II
was afierward shown 10 be a forgery. ext-
cutad by young man in Areher's employ.
who was never heard of atterward. This
incident attracted young BreckenfeId's at
teniiun to the study OF handwriting, and
this study was kept up to the date Uf the
experts tragic end.
'Breckenfeld said: This is not good
imitation of Henry Mathis hand writing
il is a clumsy forgery aud ought not to de-
ceive child And the sane Testimony
was given by all the experts called by us. -
Counsel had nothing 20 say against
Young. He looked uDon him as a good
natuIed person, perfectly harmless. who
looked upon the whole Proceeding as a
huge Joke and laughed his way through
his hour of trial on the witness-stand
"His testimony Is scarcely worth dis
cussing."
Mr.. Esenschimel was different. Hewas
vain, wrapped In himself. but wholly in
competent His superficial study of these
documents should not be taken into ac-
count when compared with the careful
examination of Maxwell and Schmidt II
had been intended to test Eisenschimers
knowledge by means of a carefully forged
letter like the will copy shown to Mrs.
TiDbits, proceeding which johnson hao
denounced with more vehemence than
courtesy.
I'VE had intended to make this test. II
is very common one, and one recognized
as IN be used In order TO try the accuracy
of the expert. Some way EisenschimeI
anticipated this, but what did he saw? AS
l said before, anything might be shown to