Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-05-18
Expert Again on.
Stand In The
Libel Case.
THE ADDRESSES.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.


Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, May 18:-When
the Whitfield libel case was resumed
in court here, today, William ].
Kinsley, the handwriting expert, was
again called on the stand cross ex-
amined. by Lawyer Robert Adrian
for the defense. He said he was not
sure, beyond all doubt, that RastaIl
had done the printing on the en-
velopes examined yesterday. In re-
ply to a question ON the subject, he
said he was reasonably certain, but
not sures
When asked by Mr.. Adrian If he
was the expert hired in the famous
rMolineaux murder trial in New York
he replied he was, but that he did
not have to examine the same kind
of@writing in that case as he did in
this one. In the murder trial his
testimony was upon script writing,
while in the present action he has
been called in to compare printing
by hand. In response to questions
he said Molineaux had been acQuit-
ted and that other; experts worked
upon the case.
Mr.. Kinsley was asked how much
pen lit WOuIu I6QuiT6 "
definitely compare writing with that
on the envelopes, and he replied he
did not know. Mr. Adrian then
summoned the expert to black
board in the court room to write the
letter "e' as in New Brunswick on
the envelopes. They were not SINH
lar, as one was a capital and the
other small letter.
Mr. Adrian acIrad fho -
had been hired by him, If he
wouldn't be willing to admit that the
writing in both cases had been done
by the same hand, to which the ex-
pert replied: Il might If you could
get me on your side. Mr.. Adrian
then said: II suppose it would de-
pend upon the size of my wallet and
pocket?" To which Kinsley said,
No, on the legal profession eth en-
you are nothing more than a hire
ling, from the top of your head to
your toes, replied Mr.. Adrian,
whereupon the court interrupted and
said the case was not on for the pur-
pose of furnishing amusement TO
spectators and the counsel proceeded
with The examination in the regular
way.
Robert Osborn, a well-known type
writing expert from Rochester, NJ
T., is on the stand this afternoon.
His testimony Is relative to that de-
fective letter "P" on the machine
used to address the envelopes con-
tanning the Groves circulars
w. j. Kinsley, the handwriting ex-
pert, was on the stand all of yester-
day afternoons session and had not
completed with his direct examina-
tion when adjournment for the day
was taken shortly before s O'Clock.
His examination was necessarily te-
dious, as he had to take exery ex-
hibit of typewriting In the case and
explain why he believed that it had
been written on the Underwood No.
4 machine, which had been used by
Miss Evelyn Kelly in Jacob H. Whit
fields Office for two days before cleo
tion day.
He testified that he had no doubt
that the typewriter which is now in
the custody of the state, was the one
which had ben used in addressing
the envelopes which had contained
the Iibelous circulars. His conclu-
sions were based upon imperfections
of the typed characters, which Inn
perfections he found in the type of
the machine.
His most sensational testimony
came toward the close of the session.
when he connected Alfred Rastall
with the envelopes. Some of the en-
yelopes which had contained libelous
circulars which were intended for
people in this city had been ad-
dressed with the word "city" after
the name Miss Kelly had testified
that Mr.. Whitfield had said that this
was wrong, that they should have
been addressed New Brunswick, N.
j." and that rubber stamp had
been secured and the correct address
made with the stamp. Some Of the
changes had been made with pen and
ink, printing being used instead of
writing. Detective Hoffman had tes-
titled that at his suggestion Mr.. Ras-
tall had printed the words New
Brunswick, N. j." on an envelope
for him.
Expert Kinsley testified yesterday
afternoon that the printing which
Mr.. Rastafl had done and the print
ing on the envelopes which had CON
tanned the libelous letters had been
done by the same hand
Mr.. Kinsley had prepared dozen
albums of photographs of all of the
and specimens OF typewrit-
ing in the case, together with photo
graphs of the writing enlarged to
nine, sixteen and 144 times. These
were elaborate affairs. The state
had intended supplying the albums
to The jurymen so that they could
more closely follow the testimony
of the expert by reference to the pho
tographs before them. Justice Ber-
gen would not permit these dupii-
Gates to be used and would only ad-
NIT In evidence photographs of the
envelopes mailed in Newark and of
those which had been written on the
Underwood machine In Whitfeld's
office, for the sake of comparison of
the writing. The enlarged photo
which showed only a portion
Of the addresses, or which simply
enlarged certain letters and charac-
ters for the sake of comparison.
were excluded. This made It neces-
sary to tear apart the expensive al
buns and to use only portions Of
them. The expert had used similar
albums in other trials and had
thought that he could use them here,
but the court held that the circum-
stances here were different, the ques-
tfOn of forgery not arising