Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-18
EVIDENCE OF A FORGERY
Stenographer's Testimony Tends to
Implioate Brandenburg.
HOW ARTICLE WAS PREPARED
Accused Man Remarked, After IL was
Finished, that ~ was "CIeve-
lands styIe"-other Feat
ures of the Case.

NEW YORK, June 17.-Broughton Bran
denburg showed little concern today as the
state continued its attempt to prove that
the article sold to the New York Times
for $500 as Grover Cleveland's and widely
published over the country was a forgery,
and to prove that Brandenburg knew It
when he sold the article. When court ad-
journed for the day he was chatting freely
with spectators and apparently did not re-
gard as damaging the testimony adduced.
Late this afternoon the state began to
Introduce witnesses to Identify the type
writer on which the article is said TO nave
been written and the stenographer to whom
It was dictated; then the typewriter sheets
Of the article itself and their correspond
ence with the published text. BY this tes-
timony the prosecution hopes to prove that
the article was dictated in part from notes
and part written in longhand by Bran
denburg and passed over by him to the
stenographer to transcribe on August 10,
1908, more than a month after Grover Cleve-
land died.
Miss Lillian Bacon, who said she took
Brandenburg's dictation Of part Of the arti-
Gle In question, told how Brandenburg
looked over the sheets at her table when
they were done, and said: ut is good
salable stuff" adding that 1t was Cleve-
lands style, or something like that.
Times Editor on stand.
Charles M. Lincoln, Sunday editor of the
New York Times, was recalled as the first
witness. Mr.. Lincoln stated that he had
twice sent a reporter to F. s. Hastings,
one Of the executors under Mr.. Cleveland's
will, to ascertain il the article was gen
uine. Two letters which the witness said
the reporter had from Mr.. Hastings were
admitted in evidence.
Mr.. Lincoln adhered under cross-exsmi-
nation to his positive Identification of the
article as the one Brandenburg had given
him. He had cut off the signature and
preserved 1t after sending the article TO the
composing room, he testified.
The witness said he had not relied on
Brandenburg's representations as to the
genuineness Of the article, his reliance be-
ing placed solely on the statements made
by Mr.. Hastings. Brandenburg had told
him when the article was first presented
that It and the signature were genuine and
he had never called its authenticity In
question to Brandenburg's attention., ne
declared.
Mr.. Lincoln said the original article had
been returned to Brandenburg after its
publication; that Brandenburg had OBJ
jected to the signature having been. cut
off, and that he informed the defendant
that the signature would not be given up
because the genuineness of the article had
been questioned.
The witness said that he had no recoliec-
ton Of Brandenburg saying anything about
intending to sell the article to the repub-
lican national committee, but stated that
that committee had called the office. on
the telephone and asked permission to use
the article and credit II to the Times.
BrandenbuPg Wanted signature.
After Mr.. Lincoln had stated on redirect
examination thai Brandenburg had told
him he needed the signature for his own
protection, Mr.. Lincoln was excused, and
the prosecution began to read Brandon
burg's testimony before the grand jury,
which indicted him. In this testimony
Brandenburg stated that he had typewrit-
ten the article himself.
"Who signed it?' was the question.
Mr.. Cleveland" was the answer the