Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-08
Witness Did Not Typewrite
Specifications on File.
MRS. HELEN COW ON STAND
Patent Office Clerk Raises Laugh on
Prosecution.
SAID BARTON TORE UP PAPERS
But They Were Only Automobile
Other and Are Stopped.

The government is showing by it's
prosecution in the case against John
Heany and Henry Everding. charged
with patent frauds" that the minutest
detail has been looked into in the hope
tof weaving a chain of evidence around
the defendants.
long string Of patent Office employees
testified this morning relative to the re-
lations between former Patent Examiner
Barton and Inventor Heany, as to mail
received by Barton from Attorney Everd-
ing and as to Barton s handwriting on
the patent papers in the case.
Mrs. Helen Cow Of Philadelphia gave
the biggest piece of evidence as to doc
toring patent Office records. saying she
did work for Everding on the application
for Heany's patent and then saying some
Of the present papers in the files are not
her work.
Physicist Wardman on Stand.
DR.. Charles w. Wardman, associated
physicist of the bureau of standards.
was put on the stand this morning. Three
letters to him from Ned w. Barton show
that Barton had communicated with the
bureau regarding electric lights, and in
one letter was mentioned that he ex-
pGCIcO 10 &0l SOIllS l4IupS I1cdhy.
Harry o. Cutting. assistant examiner in
the patent Office, at one time in division
81, and an acquaintance of Barton, was
the next witness.
He was brought in by the government
because he claimed to be familiar with
Barton's handwriting.
He testified that some of the handwrit-
ing on the patent papers in the case was
Barton's. The cross-examination for
most of these witnesses regarding hand
writing has been in the nature Of an
elaboration of the question.
"Are you a handwriting expert?
AS none is, the defense grinds out the
cross-examination to the finest point, in
quiring as to each individual letter and
parts of letters.
The testimony is, therefore, uninterest-
The jury looks bored to death when
set of questions similar to this one
is put: ,. ..n r..+ n.n .ns~
written in your life; tell the jury
wherein this b differs from Bartons.
This question would be generally fol-
| lowed by others of the same charac-
with no pretense of being experts.
have been subjected to half an hour
of constant drilling along this line. Oc-
casionally the dull gray OF the gloomy
testimony has been streaked with the
scarlet of a little battle between attorneys.
This morning Attorney Geddings and
District Attorney Baker took to OBJ
jecting and handing out statements ad-
dressed to neither court nor witness
Judge Gould asked them to desist, say
Gentlemen, if you wish to address
the court, rise in your proper places.
AS you are. it is dificult to tell
whether you are paying personal COM
pliments to each other or not"
Barton Destroyed Papers.
Charles A. Tullar. an assistant in di-
vision 81 Of the patent Office. testified
that two or three days before the In
dictment Of Ned Barton was returned
Barton destroyed certain papers In his
desk. He also connected Barton's name
with Heany, saying that Barton had
worked on some electrical matters at
Heany's request.
Another assistant examiner from the
patent office, David c. Davis. testified
that Barton got mail from the defendant
Everding, and that Barton filled up their
common waste basket with papers which
he tore up three days before Barton's In
dictment.
The witness was led up to the point OF
telling what papers Barton had destroyed,
and then, to the great amusement of the
defense gave q detailed account of find
ing In the waste basket catalo Eue OF
automobile tires and rubber buckets.
George B. Jones. assistant examiner OF
Ill,
minutes, corroborating the previous testl-
mony regarding mail to Barton.
William A. Coles. a principal examiner
in the patent Office, and once In division
81. gave testimony which had a slight
bearing on the question of alleged for
gerry in some Of the letters. He was not
cross-examined.
Mrs. Helen G. Cow. public stenographer
and typewriter, with an Office at 1926
Chestnut street. Philadelphia, was the
xuifn in a hif nf t0Sti-
mony to bear out the contention that GER
tain papers were taken from the patent
office files and others substituted. in or
der to secure one or both Of the patents
in the case. She testified that she had
written some specifications for Everding,
but said those appearing in the files now
were not her work.
Wobensmith Causes Sensation.
James A. Wobensmith caused a sensa-
ton in court late yesterday afternoon
when, after a whispered CONVERSE
ton with Judge Gould, he brought out
the hints that two big corporations are
connected in some way with the Heany
patent by declaring to district Attorney
Baker:
when 1 was in York. Pa, did not
see Heany. I went there at the request
of Mr.. Everding on a matter connected
with some railroad switch or signal
matters.
did see Mr. Barton in Heany's labora-
tory. for I called there, but Heany was
not In. Barton told me that the General
Electric Company and the Westinghouse
Electric Company were trying to steal
Heanys patent from him; and that the
whole matter was a put-up job"
This statement bore no relation to the
testimony. Wobensmith seemed to have
1t in his system and wanted to get 1t out.
The district attorney was attempting to
get some information from him relative to
some patent drawings. but did not make
much progress. In fact he asked the
judge to recognize Wobensmith as
hostile witness.
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