New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-10

of alignment. This machine has 81
bars. Would not expect any other
Smith Premier machine that had been
in use for any considerable time to get
out of alignment in the same way. The
combination of letters on the box was
not made by person familiar with the
machine. ..--.. . I'll. .-.
The evening recess was taken here.
Morning Session.
H. P. Beard was on the stand again
this morning. He said that the adj
dress on the blue box gave evidence of
being written slowly and by some one
not thoroughly familiar with the type
writer Witness told wherein the shape
of some of the letters on Smith Pre-
mier differ from those of any other
make. This was the only wide car
rage machine had in the St. Paul office
during November and December. 1t
was kept as a sample, fifteen feet from
the desk of the witness. The serial
number of this machine is No. 80.
On cross examination by Mr.. Somer-
vile, the witness said that the st. Paul
office is a branch and distributing point.
There are about fifteen employees. Wit
ness has been in charge of the office for
ten months. The building is 80 by 80
feet. During November and December
there were about seventy five machines
in the office. Witness was able to give
a record of every machine, tell when it
came in, what repairs were made on
it, and to whom sold. This was the
only wide carriage machine and for this
reason it made more of an impression
on his mind and he kept close watch up
on it. the machine was shipped to
New Ulm Aug. 10Th and returned to the
house Nov. LIST. It was returned to
New Ulm the last of December. The
first time witness ever paid any atten-
ton to the alignment of the machine
was in December. After the machine
came back from New Ulm only two
people used it, to his knowledge The
Smith Premier company makes ten
types of machines, and has 100000 ma
chimes out. Ninety five per cent of these
have type like the machine in evidence
There might be 1000 to 5000 Smith
Premier machines in Southern Minneso-
ia using this kind Of type. Could not
tell from the sample of writing whether
| it was made on a narrow or wide gauge
machine. The parts of the different ma
chimes are interchangeable. Witness
| would be surprised if any of the 300,-
900 machines sent out was in perfect
alignment. He could peck out one ma
chine from another by the alignment
of the letters.
There are three joints between the
key and the type and the one ON the
type bar works loose and gets the let
tiers out of alignment. The diffent
fexibility of the bars leads to this al
so. There are thousands of positions
that the letters may get into and be
out of alignment. When writing is
done rapidly, letters may be closer to
getner than at others, but when the
writing is done slowly this is not the
case. There are nineteen letters usel
in the address on the box. The jury wa:
shown the box The distance between
the letters might have been caused b,
the operator. "E" is the most used LEI
ter and more likely to get out of align
ment than any other in the alphabet
The machine in question was secon(
hand when it was sent to New Ulm. I
had been manufactured for eight year
and was in the office and probably rent
ed until it was sold. A new roller wa
put on the machine The alignmen
/ does not change with change of rollers
! The broken appearance of the face 0
the type depends upon the roller. Dom
know what became of the purple rib
| bon. Brown county now owns the ma
chine, having paid $65 for it, It i
not true that I made the sale condi
4 ton upon my testifying in the case
The roller has punctures made by tn
punctuation type.
{. Mr.. Somerville showed the witnes
different sheets of paper with typewrit
ing on them, to test his ability to iden
J tify writing done by the machine i
question. The writing on each shee
was the address on the box. After es
amining quite a number of the sheet!
, the witness finally picked out one tina
: ne said was written by the machine i
question After awhile he picked on
, another. After fifteen sheets had bee
! presented to the witness, the court sus
tanned an objection by the state on tn
J, ground that the examination had gon
I far enough in this line. This metho
of testing the witness was not followe
II at the New TIlnl trial some other meth