Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-24
pIsCOvERy ANNOUNCED TODAY.
=, o,der, Placed in Hands of Expert
ia the Belief That Additional
Forgcrles Exist
INFORMATION FROM ST. LOUIS
y.u. From There viii Probably De-
,,miOe Whether Special Commit
Zee Shall Visit It.

I'VE have found further deficiencies
,mopntpg 10 about 500, And these
sr,ros we have reason to believe Will
- .adsd to, This Is over and above the
v,m already made good for the secre-
,.rv Of the commission
Thus spoke Representatives Joseph
and stookey Of the house inquiry COM
mlttee today. "Of course, a part Of this
may be explained away" said the same
Gentlemen. who added, however, that 1t
hardly seemed probable This an
roupcement with the further announce
mon, that the committee expected some
VERY important Information from st.
ronIs before Monday were the fea-
lures AT today's meeting Of the lnyesti-
eating members. BY that time Atty.
John NJ. cannon, it is confidently an
tlcIpated, will be on hand to tell what
Ne knows professionally in the matter,
though IL is claimed I'm some circles
mai he need not and cannot be made
10 dIyulge anything II he Is disinclined
10 do so Mr. Cannon has been in san
Francisco for nearly a week on busi-
ness He got permission to leave before
he started,
The session today was the briefest yet
held. and when an adjournment was
taken It was until Monday morning. In
tie meantime Orson Rumel win en-
deayor as an expert on signatures and
handwriting 20 inform the committee
which OF the orders were forged, and
which we're not This on top Of the
fact that ex-GOv Wells has already
done so seems a little singular But
when an explanation was asked II was
stated that It would probably be found
that some Of those that eX-Gov Wells
passed as all right We're also bogus.
II has been suggested that a special
committee 20 10 ST. Louis to investigate
ne methods Of business pursued by Of
hfE and employees Of the Utah fair
commission there, though the "impor-
nn1 information already referred to,
Nreceyed, as looked for, may result in
prompt dismissal OF this idea.
HANDWRITING EXPERTS.
The first witnesses called were orson
humel and Rodney H. Badger. en-
ployes OF local banking firms, who have
had experience with the handwritings
Of customers and the various process
es OF forgery They were shown the
y orders selected by Gov. Wells as
Forged and asked to identify them as
genuine or not Both agreed that each
OF them was forgery.
GOV Wells writes a free hand" ex-
palned Mr. Rumel upon examining the
oruers his letters are written regular
ana Freely, while these forgeries
snow evidence OF having ben written
Slowly In tracing they would neces-
@Iuy be written slowly and by hold
lHg them up to the light, or Under n
microscope you would easily detect tho
g ,t motion Of the pen in tracing
., now could you tell who made the
iV.lESeresI' was asked by ATTY. Smith
ny employing regents on tho mi,
w, we could tell If the person who signed
1g secretays name used the Same
I'm W signing the governors. nnd n
VOlu signatures We're made al the Same
s.ule From an / know at present Tho
,UIsery may or may not have been
"'4ue py Secy Cannon"
pom leaving the stand Mr. pu,,oi
poH,lsed to take the entire package 81
.vuenefs and spend the next two dnvs
tt aing them TO decide II any moro
ioIgeries exist. '' ''''e
houney r. Badger testified I'm srh
s11Ve exactly as mad Mr., Rumnl IIo
.s.o mat under the magnifying gIass
ue signatures showed signs Of baving
.eeu written slowly, and OF beinss
FACED However. more than ono orI5
ings. '"9 useu III the trac-
DUPLICATED SALARY ORDER.
~ A. nc. Z, Nelson, superintendent Of pub.
ma p'9,. uC,loh, was called to explain the
eSnoot,t Oh governing the worlds fair
ss, IISa''ola exhibit, He stated tbar
mt,oee uuger the authority of a reso.
he b"s Nhich ne submitted as evidence
Am aJ, zen empowered to arrange for
strn gtuvd'ohal exhibit. with strict in.
sy rSo,aGns to Keep within $4,000 in his
elareS i' lures His total outlay he de-
WIN u WAS approximately So, 800 or well
"H o 'ne appropriation allowed him
far5S o n9hy times did you visit the
'' aru queried Mr., Smith ' Wv
snsa' wee, The first time was Ia secura
tbs co, ~ ritoruary 1904 Later | visitel
tlop ' az We. OF the National AssocIal
ed Ina t tVa'Hers, and at that time visit
IN f ing 'sir' The session was held late
hsI aG% y, were the finances Of the exhibit
the N ey,I Horace Cummings, director Of