The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-10
COURT IS TANNED AT
POISONED PEN TRIAL
Mrs. JOnes's Handwriting Elk.
pert Points to Accused
Mrs. Pollard.
WOMAN TELLS HER STORY
Defence VIII Call Other Elk.
perts To-day to Oppose
Prosecution.

ELISABETH, N. j.. March 9.-William ].
Kinsiey, a handwriting expert. spent three
hours on the witness stand at the trial of
Mrs Nelson L. Pollard, accused OF send
Ing scurrilous letters to Mrs. Charles +.
Jones, her next door neighbor and wife
of a prominent dentist. which opened be-
fore Judge James J. Connolly to-day.
Kinsley, was called to show the jury the
similarity In the typewritlng OF letters
which Mrs. Pollard admits she wrote and
the others on which her indictment last
October was based. He said all the letters
were apparently written on the same
typewriter
The letters which Prosecutor Alfred A.
Stein Is using as a standard for the com
parison OH which to prove the authorship
Of the others include one written by Mrs.
Pollard to Charles f. Dunn. superintend-
ent OF letter carriers. on March 4. 1909.
In which she complained that a postman
had refused TO mail letters for her. and
another written to Mrs. Matthias Steel
man. State president OF the Daughters OF
1872.
Mr.. Stein intimated that Mrs Steel
man had evaded service OF a subpoena to
Identify the letter she got. but ne did not
ask for a warrant for her arrest because
MIRA Pollard admitted writing It and also
the letter to Mr.. Dunn.
A letter sent by George T. Durham OF
Piainfieid to Samuel d. Rittenhouse, a
boarder In the Pollard house. WAS ad-
mitted at the trial. This letter was type
written. The blank side was used later
to send an alleged Objectionable letter to
Mrs. Jones. Mr.. Durham Identified it.
Mrs. Jones Tells Her story.
While MR.. Jones told her story at the
morning session of court Mrs. Pollard.
who Is a leading member Of Christ Epis-
copal Church. sat beside her counsel
taking notes. She was outwardly as calm
| and composed as any spectator.
The court room was filled with Eliza
beth's prominent folk including the Rev.
Mr. Edward +. Lyttle. curate of Mrs Pol
/ lard's church.
Mrs Jones said that Mrs. Pollard had
| lived next door for six years. but that
! neither had ever been in the others house
/ She identified two Of the poisoned pen
letters. one OF them--the principal one
on which the indictment is based-came
| enclosed In n copy OF a local paper OF
per The letter was signed Frances NJ
| Judge"
The Prosecutor offered this and abou
ten other letters In evidence.
Samuel Schleimer. counsel for Mrs
Pollard. brought out In cross examination
that Or. Horace X. Livengood. brother
in-lsw Of Mrs. Jones. also had Remington
typewriter No. .. the same the OIL,
supposed to be owned and used by Mrs
Pollard.
Mr.. Kinsley's testimony took up the en-
tire afternoon. He told his reasons FOL
believing that the same typewriter wa
used In writing the letters Mrs Polar;
admitted she sent and the others. n
made sketches to show defects in tn
typewriting. which he said he found IL
all the letters. and told the jury tina
certain typewriters have their own pecul.
arlties which are unmistakable.
Part of Letter IL Unprinsable.
Part OF the letter Mrs. Pollard is al
legged to have sent to Mrs. Jones on No
vember 81. 1912. In unprintable. II state
that a certain aunt was a heavy whiske
drinker and a morphine hend. II AIS
says that Mrs. Jones's brother. according
To Mrs. Jones. had hardening OF the ar
teries. but that some one else had bee
Informed conndentially that he had soften
ing of the brain. The letter goes o
to say that the neighbors were informc
that Mrs Jones got her baby lamb
coat through her 'sister-in-law, who wa
said to have brought II from Canad
cheap without paying any duty on |,
II also contained slurring remarks abou
Or. Jones's practice.
Another letter received by Mrs. Jone
on August 6. 1911. read your tw
brothers wives are as thick as Jerse
skeeters and are In a fashionable resor
having great sport writing anonymou
letters 10 Elizabeth folk"
This letter was written on the bac
OF a letter addressed To Nelson L. Pollard
husband OF the accused woman.
The trial progressed so rapidly ycst..
day that II was thought Mrs. Polar
might take the stand herself late thi
afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Experts will be presented to-day b.
the defence to show that the defect
pointed out in the machine said to hav
been used by Mrs. Pollard were com
mon to typewriters even OF different make
and that Mr.. kinsley's conclusions ar