Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-05-17
EXPERT TELLS.
ABOUT USE OF
TYPE WRITER
Machine on Which Envelopes
in Libel Case We're Ad-
dressed identified.
TELL OF MAILING LETTERS
IN NEWARK

NeW BTunSWlcK, may lI."W nen
the libel case in which Jacob H.
Whitfield. Alfred Rastall. Charles H.
Morris and Tunis McCauley are ac-
cused of slandering Former County
Collector H. Raymond Groves by the
distribution OF circulars, was re-
pumed this morning Nelson Birch. a
former clerk in MIR. Groves's Office,
who was on the stand at the close
yesterday, was recalled for direct ex-
animation. He testified to securing
samples of typewriting from the ma
chimes in the republican headQuar-
ters, which he submitted to William
X. Kinsley, the typewriting expert,
for his examination. He also told OF
securing specimens from rubber
stamp taken from the office of Hull
fish & Whitfield's Office containing
the words, New Brunswick"
Alan Strong, attorney for the de-
fense, objected to the admission of
the specimens OF the rubber stamp
and his objection was sustained.
On cross-examination, Robert
Adrain, Of counsel for the defense,
brought out the. fact that the repub-
lican headquarters were open for
men to come and help themselves to
all the literature they wanted.
Adrain asked the witness IL there
was not a strained difference be-
tween the Whitfield headquarters
and the Groves headquarters. The
prosecutor objected to this, on the
ground that it was not cross-examin-
alton. Adrain then went into long
argument over the matter and he
was told by the court to be more ex-
plicit and not to take so much time
of the court. In the end the objec-
tion of the prosecutor was sustained.
On further cross-examination it
was brought out that democrats as
well as republicans could visit the
republican headquarters.
Former County Detective Hoff-
man was next called. He identified
the Birch specimens of typewriting
as the ones he had in charge when
they were being examined by the
typewriting expert. HOFFMAN testi-
fed that on November 18 he told
Charles Morris. one OF the defend-
ants, that he had heard his (Mor-
ris's) name mentioned in connection
with the case. He then got Morris
to print with Ink the name New
Brunswick" on five envelopes. He
also got Alfred Rastall, also one of
the defendants, to print the same
name on five envelopes. These ten
envelopes were presented in evil
dence. Some of the envelopes in
which the circulars were sent out
had the address New Brunswick,
printed In ink on them.
Hoffman said he tried to get the
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give 1t up.
Miss Evelyn Kelly. a stenographer
in the Whitfield headquarters, and
who was on the stand yesterday,
was then recalled She had testified
that she had addressed many envel-
opes and had put pastors inside and
had sealed the envelopes. This
morning she testified that some Of
the envelopes which she had sealed
had been taken from her table. by
Morris and carried into an adjoin-
ing room. She did not know what
was done to them there.
1t was brought out by Justice Ber-
gen that the envelopes were not the
ones that had the word city"
crossed out and the name New
Brunswick" substituted
B. Frank Samsel, of sayreville,
was called shortly before noon and
identified an envelope and circular.
Adolph May likewise testified to re-
ceiving copy of the circular
through the mail William Pfeiffer,
of Perth Amboy, received one, but
was not present to testify today.
David ]. Sandford, superintendent
of mails at the Newark post office,
went on the stand at noon. He was
shown a number of the post marked
envelopes that had contained eircu-
lars that had been sent through the
Newark post Office and he identified
the post mark. He testified that the
envelopes had been post marked by
an electrical stamp cancelling ma
chine. When asked relative to the
time of mailing, he could not an
swer, as the stamps on the matter
had been cancelled some time after
having been mailed. The rush of
mail through the office at that time
was tremendous and that caused
some delay in handling the litera-
ture.
Chester w. Wood testified to re-
ceiving a circular in an envelope. Ar
thur H. Boyd, of the Home News, of
this city, was called to testify rela-
tive to an article that appeared in
local papers, that was printed for the
defenss Of the accused. When asked
who had given the article for publi-
cation. he replied that he could not
remember. Robert Adrain, one OF
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