The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24

capital punishment was afterward
committed to penal servitude for life,
upon the suspicion that the woman was
] insane
In the great Matlock win case the
/ crossing of the 81 in the word ito
/ settled the question whether the cOdi-
| ellis of a will were genuine or false. In
the will, which was in the dead man 5
| handwriting, the It" was uncrOssed
| ffty-one times, wholly crossed five
/ times. but half crossed never. In fifty
of the dead mans letters the tt in
! TO" was uncrOssed 131 times wholly,
| crossed fourteen times, but never half
| crossed. In the disputed codicils the
| st. was always half crossed.
| The jury decided that the cOdicils
We're not genuine.
| The number of anonymous letters sub
mitted to an expert IN a year is large.
| Sometimes these letters are written by
the recipient for certain purposes.
! An American expert tells an amusing
story of such a case. A minister one
| day produced a letter which he alleged
| he had received from another COngre-
cation Offering him a larger salary il
/ he would transfer his ministrations to
them. To retain him the congregation
raised his stipend and he refused the
| call.
! When other calls arrived the dea-
/ cons became suspicious. The letters
/ and a sermon i'm the pastors handWrit-
| ing were submitted TO an expert and
were emphatically declared to have
/ been written by the same man. The
minister went-but not TO the cOngTe-
cation he said was so DESTROYS TO OBJ
/ tain him
/ Some excellent handwriting cOmpari-
! son was done in what is known as the
| Whalley will case. James Whalley, a
retired irOnmaster, died in the cottage
of a railway porter at LeOminster,
where he rented rooms at > shillings a
week. When he was dead it was dis
covered that he had left property
worth $350,O00.
WhaIley had a son who lived at Der
by and who. being his sole relative.
naturally expected to inherit his
wealth Upon his arrival at the cot
tage and searching for a viii he found
a closed envelope among the dead
mans papers containing the precious
! document.
When the envelope was opened and
the will read the son was astOuished TO
find that his father had Willed more
than half his fortune away from him
TO his landlord and q third person. The
stem was GALldofU as the ull
man had frequently told his son that
he would inherit All that he possessed
and the young fellow Immediately de
nounced the document as a fraud. Blu,
how to prove it,
Underneath the writing Of the Will
the expert discovered the traces of peH-
ell written words. These words under
the microscope, became sentences-thC
words of d dying man to his soma
letter to young Whalley from his
father on his deathbed, But this writ
| ing was not that OF the dead man. bat
of the landlord Of his lodging! Only
the signature-James Whalley-Was in
! ink and i'm the dying mans hand,
The fraud was out. Upon his death
bed Whalley dictated a letter 10 his
son. which the landlord had written il
pencil Whalley signing it IN ink. When
the old man was dead the landlord had
rubbed out the pencil writing with
crumbs of bread had written the vii
above Whalley's signature, had opened
the envelope in which the real vii
lay, and, having destroyed the rea
document and inserted his forgery -
its place. had closed the envelope anC
put it among the dead mans papers.
The landlord and one of his accom-
plices went to penal servitude. An
other accomplice saved himself ha
making a fun confession and turning
queens evidence.