El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-06


locking up Mrs. Perry's record while he
was here-it was not necessary. He
came down to see who was in the
| wrong.
81 became acquainted with Walter
Long through his sister Miss Nina
Long. She was writing to me and sent
my brother a Christmas present. She
suggested that it would be pleasant
for me to correspond with her broth
er. He sent his picture and l acknowl-
edged it; and correspondence sprung
up. We became engaged and were
married shortly afterward.
| mo, l did not write either of those
| letters. | do not know who wrote
them. 1 do not know anything about
them
| Witness identified and admitted
writing two letters introduced in evil
dence written to Nina Long. also the
receipts signed by her.
Il met Mrs. Perry at an outing in
ICovingtOn, KY" continued the wit
ness. when she accompanied Miss
Nina Long. 1 met her several times
afterwards. She did not tell me about
her relatives the Goshorns in Cincin-
natl. l don't know whether they Wis
tied the Goshorns or not. They were
visiting friend of mine-a Mrs. Glenn
ent, but l don't know where they went
afterwards. Shortly after she was
married, my husband brought home a
picture. but 1 do not remember whose
it was. 1 did not know that it was
a picture of Mrs. Goshorn. My hus-
band may have told me so but I did
not remember if he did,
The attorneys for the prosecution
then subjected Mrs. Long to a rigid
cross examination as to the letters in
evidence. and requested her to write
number of words and sentences. They
kept her busy until IL o'clock when
the court took a recess.
Afternoon Session.
Upon the reconvcning of the
court at o'clock J. G. Hilzinger. anoth
er expert on the subject of handwriting
was called to the stand. He stated that |
he had been in the banking business
for fifteen years and had had exper-
fence in comparing handwriting. The !
letters of Mrs. Long and the anony- |
nous letters were submitted to him !
for examination and in response to the |
question whether they were written by |
the same person he said in his opin-
ion they were not.
On cross examination he was handed |
the receipts and stated that they re- |
sembled the genuine letters admitted |
her. The envelope in which the anony-
nous letter was enclosed was examin-
ed by him and compared with the hand /
writing made by the defendant at the |
morning session and said there was
some resemblance in the formation of J.
the letters. The peculiarities of the |
individual letters were gone into thor
oughly and Mr.. Hilzinger pointed out
the difference between those of the
av,I 14 ;rI,f
be possible for the person who wrote
the genuine letters to write the anony-
nous one but it would be an exceed
ingly clever piece of work. The hand
of an anonymous letter was
in his opinion written in natural
manner and the difference between
them and the genuine ones was too
great to admit of the supposition that
the same person wrote them. He adj
mitted that outside of his family he
had had very little experience with
handwriting.
In answer to further questions by Mr..
Buckler he stated that in his opinion
the addresses on the two envelopes en-
closing the anonymous letters were
the same handwriting.
After comparing these envelopes with
those of the genuine letters he said
that in his judgment they were not
the same handwriting at all.
The attorneys for the defense took up
the subject of the idividual letters
again and wrangled for a good part of
an hour with Mr.. Hilzinger before the
jury over the formation of g's and VS..
The witness again stated that he arriv-
ed at his conclusions from the dis
of the writings and reiter-
ated his conviction that the writer of
the genuine letters was not the writer
Of the anonymous letters.
Miss Nina Long was recalled by the
tations that had been made in the cor
ner of the envelopes enclosing the
letters received by her from Mrs. Long.
These notations were: "Reba's about
and "Reba's latest" The wit
ness stated that she had made the no
tations herself at the time she receiv- 4
ed them.
1t is understood that the defense will
endeavor to bring out the point in the
writing of these notationS is very SINH
lar to that of the anonymous letters.
Miss Nina Long testified further as
TO the manner in which she first be-
came acquainted with Mrs. Long and
The subsequent relations that arose be- !
tween her brother and Mrs. Long. 1t
was sought by the prosecution to show
that Mrs Long knew Mrs. Goshorn in
Witness stated that Mrs.
Goshorn's name had been frequently
mentioned by the family in the pres
ence of Mrs. long.
In response to Mr.. Buckler the wit !,
ness said that she could not say posi-
lively that Mrs. Long knew Mrs. Gosh
orn's address.
The defense rested its case.
This concluded all the testimony in
the case and the attorneys proceeded
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