Evening star., 1908-12-24

nection with Everding. who was the pat
ent attorney handling Heany's inventions.
began three or four years ago. There
were two of Heany's applications In the
patent office at that time. and one or
them Barton destroyed or partially de-
stroyed. In the trial IT was said he de-
stroyed il to get all trace OF the Heany
ideas out of the way. Barton said on the
stand that when he found that an inves-
tigation was coming on il was necessary
Ia replace nineteen typewriter pages and
that lie went 10 Everding and got him to
dictate the subject matter of the substl-
tuted pages.
Forged Numerous Papers.
Another patent he changed by making
alterations and interlineationS. He forged
names of clerks. made out a new Jacket
III which the papers were filed. initiated
tie handwriting of half a dozen different
peop'e. and made fraudulent set OF files
which bore a very close resemblance to
package of official documents.
Owing to n civil suit involving tungsten
filaments the puZzlirg matter came I"
light several months ago; but the matter
could not be solved. There were the two
Heany applications that Barton had tam
pered with in the flies and they seemed 10
include ideas that were not known to the
scientific world on the date OF the appN-
cations filing.
government detective one day held
one of the substituted typewriter pages
20 the light and saw the water marx
An idea struck him. He hurried away
ard then began an Investigation leading
the governments men Into half DOZEN
states. through paper mills 10 an artists
studio. and the mystery was partialiy
solved. II was found that the paper o.
the nineteen substituted pages was moi
manufactured until fun two years after
the date that was placed on them From
then on the detectives studied the hand
writing and the typewrittnS. The oest
experts in the United States were called
into tho case and q forgery was detected.
Every man and woman that had been
connected with the Heany laboratory and
Everdings Office for two years back was
traced and found Every person with any
connection with the typewriter pages
was consulted and put through third
degree" even down to the boy who had
carried the typewritin8 machine which
had been used from one office to an
other.
His Every Move Traced.
Barton's travels in the last two years
were traced. and his visits were shown
to the jury in an enormous pile Of hotel
registers that the government brought
into court.
Finally, after six months work. the
government had its case finished and
brought Barton to a complete confession
and hoped TO convict Everding and Hea-
ny. Heanys counsel made no defense,
saying that no evidence had been Pro
duced to show that he had entered into
a conspiracy, and. in fact. Barton testified
that he had been told to keep II all Sc
cret from Heany.' Everding admitted
making out the substituted papers. but
said that Barton came to him and said:
II have destroyed the Specifications III
Heany's application Now I'm In bad.
and II you do not mako out new papers
I'll take all the secrets I have learned
from you and sell them to another conf
pany."
He denied having entered into a con-
spiracy to defraud the government in any
other way, and put 1t all on Barton.
Barton was characterized by Judge Gould
as Infamous"
The matter is of great importance in
the electric light world because a tre-
mendous battle in the courts is coming On
affecting the validity OF Heanys patents
Heany claims that his ideas have been
stolen from him and that others are using
them