Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-10-19

| cAilulJS SuCu INSTANCES are rare eNCGD-
tions, most of them when used being
| light lin Exhibit A they are all light
! The average angles of the writing of the
! G exhibits are about degrees nearer the
| perpendicular than those of the II OK.
! hibitS. (ln this respect Exhibit A more
nearly conforms to the b exhibits }
Furthermore the angle OF the small "S''
IN the exhibits runs to the perpcn-
dicular, or way over to the left OF it,
while in the b exhibits they remain as
they do in Exhibit A---the auglc of the
stan letters.
| In the making Of small &c" in tho G.
exhibits they are nearly all of them thus
| co. VIII . in the b exhibits, and which
form Otains in the only instances where
this ID ttcr is used in Exhibit A, the word
sickness IL is made thus Ca ! call
attention to the triangular CoC C. cxhibits)
mark ut it's top. Noteworthy illustra-
tons are 70 be souu IN {, list iiuc fourth
word, come" line 7, word "Such - line
IL. word comforts" same line, word
cheer" line - quite exaggerated word
eau" line l6, word 'come:" same line,
word can" limo 20 word "cau;'
&C. ?, line J. word "cotton,m and
so on many times. In ,, line ), word
| cousin" it is moro like Il small with n
dot at top See line s., word, "pencil:"
line Z, word ''which;" same line, word
| received and b 3, line 3, word
cousin line ,, word "pencil' liuc g,
word excused line $, word "rcceivcd;"
line II, word pictures" " etc, etc
In the matter of pen pressure, surely
the B exhibits conform much more
| closely TO Exhibit a than do the & ones
AS to base line: The Is writings hug
the ruled line much closer than the G.
ones, and in this respect conforming to
the illustrated habit in Exhibit A. True
1T is that the 9 writings, in the final rs
as made, illustrate them correctly and
incorrectly. The same is to be said in
respect to the b writings But compare
these improperly made in the c exhibits,
Of which Il in the word "loStn in limo /,
in G |; the word that line s, in G ,,
none being found in 3 of that kind J
are excellent eXemplarics, aud then take
any final L lmperfectly made in the b
exhibits, Of which kind there are none in
B |, and for reasons already set forth
See B 2; the first time it occurs, line s,
word ought" repeated mauy times in
said exhibit; Exhibit B 3, line 2, word
rest, repeated dozens of times in same
exhibit. Compare the final Tvs i'm EN-
hibt A. words "Ioyt" but" "let"
and ''it." There can be no question as
to which of the two writings it belongs
to, viz, to the b ones. Observe the
small wherever it appears in the
writings; it is always open to the right
of its staff; that is to say, it is correct in
that respect while in b writings it's final
stroke strikes back to the stafr and hugs
1T. In Exhibit a this same habit obtains.
For illustration, see G /, limo II, word
book line II, word bow" and see
G 2, line g, word butt line 5, word
bet" etc; G. 5, line 4, word "bought:"
line IL, word "oblige," etc. all open at
bottom; b, 10th line, b /, line >, word
"fut,' or but" line %, word blue"
line 2S, word "rcmembcr;' line 30, word
"rcmcmbrauce;" b 2, line II, word
"bcen;" line Is, word better" etc; B 3,
line >, word "bc" line {, word "be,'
etc, etc All of these are closed at the
bottom.
See word but. in Exhibit A, closed
at bottom, eXcmpities those in B OK
hibtS.
The above excmplifcations assist in
identifying Exhibit a with the B cX-
hibitS. Comparing the words Lula
ON Exhibit A, with the same word in B
?, line I and b 3, line 20. Pen pressure,
relationship to base line, angle proper
tiouing and composition, actual forms of
letters, except the final stroke of the small
a, in exhibit n, will asSimilatc so closely
as to make 1T certain in connection with
the other adduccd facts that EXhihr a
was written by the hand which wrote
the Is exhibits.
Viewing Exhibit 4 independently for
the purpose OF discovering. if possible,
whether or not it presents any evidence
of stimulation or disguise, | have to say
that there has been no eraSurcs, there
has been no retOuching of letters, and it
is therefore an undiSguised piece of writ
ing. could at still greater length pre-
sent much more material for your OBJ
Seryation, but think have stated Suih
cient TO be able to show you that in
formulating tho opinion that the said
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