The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-18
Author Shows Little Concern
 During His Trial
TIMES EDITOR TESTIFIES
Charles M. Lincoln Tells About Re ceiVing the Cleveland Story and of Subsequent Doubt of
 Genuineness of Signature.

New York, June 17.-Broughton Bran denburg showed little concern today as the state, in a business-like way, contin- ued it's attempt to prove that the article sold the New York Times for s5O0 Grover Cleveland's and widely published over the country, was a forgery and that Brandenburg knew it when he sold the article. When court adjourned late this afternoon he was chatting cheerfully with spectators and apparently did not 1eg5rd as damaging the testimony of ths second day of his trial.
 Late this afternoon the state began to introduce witnesses in rapid succession. first to identify the typewriter on which the article is said to have been written, and the stenographer to whom it was delivered then the typewriter sheets of the article itself and their correspondence with the published text. By this testimony the prosecution hopes to prove that the article was dictated in part from notes and in part from writing In long hand, by Brandenburg. and passed over by Linn to the stenographer to transcribe on August 10. 1908, more than month after Grover Cleveland had died.
 Miss Lillian Bacon, who said she took Brandenburgs dictauon of part of the article in question, told how Brandenburg looked over the sheets at her table when they were done and said:
 Tt is good salable stuff" adding that 1t was Grover Clevelands style, or some thing like that.
 Court was adjourned before he could be led farther.
 Editor On Stand.
 Charles M. Lincoln, Sunday editor of the New York Times, was recalled to the stand today. On cross-examination by Att torney Jacobs for the defense, MT. Lin coin stated that he had twice sent re- porter to F. S. Hastings, one of the ex- ecutors of MT. Cleveland's s will, to learI if the article was genuine. Two letters which the witness said the reporter had secured from MT. Hastings, were admitted in evidence. In one of them over the signature of F. s. Hastings the state ment was made that the writer had given Brandenburg a formal written assign ment by which he has the exclusive right to said article" The second letter, In part, said: T have examined the sigma
 
 compared it with others of MT. Cleve- lands and believe that the one submitted by Mr. Ybarra is genuine. l have no reason to believe that the article fur nished you by MT. Brandenburg pur- porting to have been written by Mir. Cleveland Is not genuine"
 Mir. Lincoln adhered under cross-ex ination to his positive Identification of the article as the one Brandenburg had given him. He had cut off the signature and preserved 1t in a small envelope after sending the article to the composing room, he testified.
 Relied Upon Hastings.
 In answer to further questions by the defense the witness said he had not re- lied on Brandenburg's representations as to the genuineness of the article, his reliance being placed solely on the state ments made by Mir Hastings. Branden burg had told him when the article was first presented that 1t and the signature were genuine, and he had never called their authenticity into question to Bran denburg, he declared. He further testi- fled that the original article had been returned to Brandenburg after its pub lication; that Brandenburg had objected to the signature having been cut off, and that he informed the defendant that the signature would not be given up because the genuiness of the article had been questioned He did not know that Bran denburg had later voluntarily returned the article to the newspaper office, fol- lowing the agitation over it's genuine ness; although it might have been given to someone else there. Tuesday of this week was the first time he had seen 1t again. he declared. The witness said that he had no recollection of Brandenburgs saying anything about intending to sell the article to the republican national com mittee, but stated that the committee had called the office on the telephone and asked permission to use the article and credit to the Times.
 Reading of Testimony.
 After MT. Lincoln had stated on redirect examination that Brandenburg had told him he needed the signature for his own protection, MT. Lincoln was excused and the prosecution began to read Branden- burgs testimony before the grand jury that indicted him. In this testimony Brandenburg stated that he had type written the article himself.
 "Who signed itT' was the question
 "Mr. Cleveland" was the answer the prosecutor read.
 The writer then told of offering the ing it to the Times. and of MT. Cleve- lands disappointment at the price of fered He also told of conversations with Mir Hastings after the ex-President's had called the office on the telephone and Hastings specifically authorized him to sell the article.
 MT. Cleveland's signature, Brandenburg testified was attached about March 6, 1q08