The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-15
WRITTEN N HASTE
Sample of Molineaux's Writ
ing Is Analysed
BY A HANDWRITING SHARP
He Makes 1t Another Finger
Pointing to Guilt.

New York, March 1.-THE Journal saws
! Two letters written by Ro.and B. Moli-
neaux in MS Office in Herman & Co. fac
tory, Newark, were submitted yesterday
| by the Journal to ". ]. Kinsley, the hand
writing expert, for examination. One of
the letters bears date of December %,
1885, the day it was first known that the
poison sent 70 Harry Cornish had caused
the death of Mrs. Adams. After examin-
ing both letters, Expert Kinsley said:
1.-The characteristics running through
both letters are the same. From cur
sorry examination the ordinarily nervous
temperament Of the writer is greatly eX-
acgerated in the letter dated December
%. This is plainly shown by the patched
up and marked over letters appearing in
many places.
His extreme nervousness and hast
caused these mistakes, and are the more
easily discerned in the formation of the
letters in the words soft rings has,
instead and exchange Great haste in
certain temperamenJs unbalances the per-
son and causes nervousness to appear in
the writing. It is responsible for the mis-
takes in the spelling. 1t does not, how
ever. destroy the characteristics in the
handwriting.
THE same cratic punctuation and lack
Of punctuation found in the standards of
MolineauM's handwriting that were sub
mitted to the experts are also observed in
both these letters.
In the letter dated December %, the
word soft was originally written soft or
SOFT This was patched up by the writer
until soft appeared; the final letter was
transformed into a t with the letter f..
originally written, still in evidence.
1.-The word instead was written 'stiol.'
but was subsequently altered by tracing
a faint loop over the letter t. making it
resemble the letter .e' The letter 20 was
unchanged, and "a was written over the
letter. a. The word has was written
his or nos, and was patched UP until
the letter "a was partly formed.
''The same patching, or make-over,' ap-
pears in the word exchange The letter
g is hardly perceptible as originally writ
ten, and in writing over it and making it
palmer part of the preceding letter n IS
obscured. In this word the style and char
acteristics Of Moineauxs writing are
maintained. He very rarely connects the
letter &C. with the one before or following.
and the initial letter of the word is the
enlarged small e
The letter dated December Is is inter
esting because Of the peculiar manner in
which the 'p's are formed in the word
supply This same popularity exists in
the word book in the letter written on
June ! from Heckman's letter box estab-
lishment on West Fo0rty-second street.
and signed H, C. Barnet. It was the I'M
usual formation of the letter * that at
and men accustomed to reading all STYLES
OF writing examined the letter and declar-
ed that they had never before seen the
letter * written IN that manner The
same was said about the 'p's' in the word
supply
I'm the letter X the downward stroke
completed the last letter Of the word
and the letter Itself was finished by two
strokes Of the pen, beginning with
heavy Dreshsure Of the last stroke and
family ending away from the letter.
The two 'p's' in this letter were COM
Dletei in the same manner. In place Of
rounding out the letter the writer carried
the pen along, and finally finished the 'p'
with the same unusual stroke of the pen.
beginning with a heavy pressure at the
down stroke Of the letter. and ending
family.
"The characteristics Of Molineaux's
handwriting, the style and formation of
the letters, are not effected by his ner-
vousness in the letter dated December Is
In the words apparatus and for for in
stance. the group of letters app are the
same as the first three letters of the words
applied and Appreciated which are COM
pared by me for the Journal from the let
ter written by Melineaux' at dictation
with the same words appearing in what is
known as the Harpster letter signed II.
c Barnet
In the word supply the breaks in the
'p's' are unintentional. The writer evil
IDENTIFY intended to compete the word with
out removing the Den from the 2aaer.
railing 10 do SO the letters were COM
n.eied with the unusual marks after the
word was written. It was not so in the
Barnet letter dated June !. The unr-par
formation of K in book was intentional
IN that instance. and the two marks COM
P.eteinS the letters We're very unusual
The letter Of December % is signed
N'rS in grea, haste L the vrfte~ VS.
pressed for time II took him longer 70
pNieA up the mistakes caused by his nor
N''Sl'SS Than IL would have taken had the
letter been carefully written"
Professor T07r,,:s 80, -.,.