Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-30
First Feature of Famous Ac-
tion Relates to Forgery of
Papers in Garcia VIII Conf
test,
EXPERT SEES EVIDENCE
OF ATTORNEYS GUILT
Another Typewriter Expert Isl
Expected to Give Testimony
for Defense; No Sensation
al Developments,

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Santa Fe. May 29.--War a type
writer in the office of Marion g.
Wood used for the purpose of writing
the four letters which played so large
and sinister a part in the litigation
over the estate of the late Elias G..
Garcia--letters purporting to have
been written by Garcia himself from
different cities Of the country at DIFF
ferent times, acknowledging the pa
ternitv of the child who afterwards
became claimant to share of his
estate estimated at n quarter of a
million dollars?
This was the main question consld-
cred today in the trial of the disbar-
ment proceedings against owen \.
Marron state treasurer of New Mex
leo. and his partner, Francis Il. Wood
proceedings which are fraught with
the possibility of professional ruin
and personal disgrace to two of the
most prominent attorneys in New
Mexico
This is not the only question in
volved in the case, but it is the one
which received the greater portion of
the attention of the court today. The
question of whether the members of
the firm of Marion and Wood should
he disbarred for unprofessional con-
duct in using information obtained by
them for the purpose of stirring up
litigation against their former client,
is yet to be gone into A thru ques-
ton, relating to alleged misconduct
by Mr.. Marion in procuring the publ
cation of a misleading newspaper ar'i-
Gle relating to n supplemental opinion
in regard to their case, was taken mp
this morning, but has not vet been
disposed Of.
Battle of Experts.
The most sensational feature of the
disbarment proceedings involving the
alleged fabrication of docuraents by
Marion and Wood. which have been
adjudged in the main case TO have been
spurious. bids fair to develop intl a
duel between handwriting-or, to he
more exact, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES one
Of the most eminent authorities IN the
United States-a man who has tesii-
fled in some of the most famous trials
in the history of the country--todaJ
expressed the unqualified opinion that
The four tyDewritten letters which mad
heen adjudged to be spurious we've
written on the same typewriter
as two legal documents which are ad-
mitted to have emanate1 from the Of
nee of Marion and Wood.
Sitting on the opposite side CT .he
room from the witness, while he was
testifying, was another expert equally
famous, who took notes and consulted
with counsel throughout the hearing.
This expert was armed with speci-
mems of enlarged photographs of
ypewriting, and it is expected that
he will take the stand tomorrow
morning and testify with equal posi-
uveness that the two sets of docu-
ments could not possibly have been
written on the same typewriter.
Thus the court will have its choice
Of opinions equally emphatic, from ex-
pefts equally eminent, directly con-
uadlcting each other
Attributes of Typewritcrs.
Ihe pecularities of typewriters were
discussed and dissected in the court
ioom today much as a physician
would dissect a human body, and
much the same terminology was used
IN describing them.
Consenital defects" "Anatomical
characteristics," and other attributes
winch were defined as "symptomatic,'
physiologicaI and structural" al
most led one to imagine that a clinic |
vas IN progress rather than a legal |
"Festlgation of whether two sets of
documents were written on the same |
machine.
:, Inc use of magnifying glasses and (
.'neiy adjusted protractors and scales |
'Vr measuring the height, width ana |
1'sies of letters in the disputed docu- |
""n's, to the smallest fraction of an |
nch' also lent an odd touch to the |
r'oceedlng, and more than once the |
"Ning of evidence was halted in or
ser TO give the judge an opportunity !
adjust lense to his eye and ex-
N''ihe the papers for himself.
Small Crowd Present.
me trial was attended by none of